However, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer finally defeated himself in an op-ed he published in The New York Times last Tuesday titled “The Soul of Democracy on the Ballot in Israel , America and America. ” .
Friedman painted a picture of last year in Israel – the first year without Netanyahu since 2008 – as a symbol of democracy, where “the Jews of Israel and the Palestinian people of Israel danced together under blue and white flags, in unity and happiness. ”
A malicious article that speaks about erasing apartheid and polishing the image of the Zionist enemy and his day-to-day crimes against Palestinians, blaming Palestinians for their continued oppression. And Friedman praised the people who leave their cousins under work! Moreover, Friedman presented a caricature of Israeli political ignorance. Friedman wasted no time in drawing the wrong analogy between Donald Trump’s coup attempt and Benjamin Netanyahu’s various schemes to stay in power. And he warns that a “win-at-any-cost mentality” could destroy democracy in both the United States and Israel, according to Mitchell Pletnik on the Mondways website.
According to Pletnik, Friedman ignores the fact that both countries, despite having some democratic structures, also have important anti-democratic regimes (apartheid in the case of Israel) and various restrictions that prevent in democracy, such as the Electoral College and the U.S. Senate. and support various forms of economic, social, racial, gender and other discrimination.
Source: Al-Akhbar
