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Thomas L. Friedman

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Bibi Is Choosing Stefanik and Trump. President Biden, Don’t Be Fooled.

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist If you are keeping score at home, you have surely noticed...

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Biden’s Real Mistake in Pausing Military Aid to Israel

In how Biden made his announcement, the president enabled Netanyahu to look like an innocent victim

11.05.2024 200

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Three Reasons the Campus Protests Are Part of the Problem

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist Readers have been asking me, and I have been asking myself...

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Israel and Saudi Arabia Are Trading Places

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, reporting from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia and...

03.05.2024 100

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Israel Has a Choice to Make: Rafah or Riyadh

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, writing from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia U.S. diplomacy to end...

27.04.2024 200

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How to Be Pro-Palestinian, Pro-Israeli and Pro-Iranian

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel over the...

17.04.2024 100

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Iran Just Made a Big Mistake. Israel Shouldn’t Follow.

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist It would be easy to be dazzled by the way Israeli, American...

15.04.2024 100

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Israel: Cease-Fire, Get Hostages, Leave Gaza, Rethink Everything

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist Israel today is at a strategic point in its war in Gaza,...

10.04.2024 100

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What Schumer and Biden Got Right About Netanyahu

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist One of my ironclad rules of journalism is this: When you...

19.03.2024 200

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Netanyahu Is Making Israel Radioactive

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, reporting from Erez, Israel Israel today is in grave...

13.03.2024 200

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Inside America’s Shadow War With Iran

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, who reported from the U.S. garrison in Al Tanf in southern...

06.03.2024 100

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Israel Is Losing Its Greatest Asset: Acceptance

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, reporting from Amman, Jordan I’ve spent the past few...

28.02.2024 200

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Trump’s G.O.P. Is a Confederacy of Fakers

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist I’ve got a suggestion for the next Trump-G.O.P....

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Only Biden and M.B.S. Can Redirect the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist One of the most unexpected developments in the Israel-Hamas...

13.02.2024 100

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The G.O.P. Bumper Sticker: Trump First. Putin Second. America Third.

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist Every so often there is a piece of legislation on Capitol...

06.02.2024 30

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A Biden Doctrine for the Middle East Is Forming. And It’s Big.

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist There are two things I believe about the widening crisis in...

01.02.2024 200

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Why Ukraine and Gaza Are Even Bigger Than You Think

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist There are many ways to explain the two biggest conflicts in...

25.01.2024 20

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Netanyahu Is Turning Against Biden

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, reporting from Davos, Switzerland It looks as if President...

19.01.2024 10

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What Is Happening to Our World?

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, reporting from Dubai As the Times’s foreign affairs...

29.12.2023 400

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It’s Time for the U.S. to Give Israel Some Tough Love

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist It is time for the Biden administration to give Israel more...

23.12.2023 200

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What Worries Me About the Gaza War After My Trip to Arab States

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, reporting from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I’ve been concerned...

13.12.2023 200

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This Is the 9/11 Lesson That Israel Needs to Learn

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist As Israel debates what to do next in Gaza, I hope...

02.12.2023 30

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Understanding the True Nature of the Hamas-Israel War

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist The reason the Hamas-Israel war can be hard for outsiders...

29.11.2023 80

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The Rescuers

Opinion Thomas L. Friedman Rahat, Israel, a Bedouin town in the Negev Desert. Credit... Ofir Berman Supported by By Thomas L. Friedman ...

22.11.2023 200

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It’s Time for a Biden Peace Plan

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, reporting from Tel Aviv. During my nine days of reporting...

14.11.2023 200

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I Have Never Been to This Israel Before

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, reporting from Israel People warned me before I came to...

09.11.2023 300

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Seeing the Big Picture in Two Big Wars

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist Step back far enough, and you can see exactly what is...

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Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist I am watching the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza today and...

30.10.2023 200

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Israel: From the Six-Day War to the Six-Front War

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist If you care about Israel, you should be more worried than...

26.10.2023 90

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To Win the War, Defeat Hamas and Stop Settlements

Both Israelis and Palestinians must behave in ways that we can support. No more blank checks.

20.10.2023 200

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Why a Gaza Invasion and ‘Once and for All’ Thinking Are Wrong for Israel

The Netanyahu government and President Biden have smarter options.

16.10.2023 4

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Thomas Friedman: For Israel, a crucial choice is at hand

I have covered this conflict for almost 50 years, and I’ve seen Israelis and Palestinians do a lot of awful things to one another: Palestinian...

15.10.2023 5

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Why Israel Is Acting This Way

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist With the Middle East on the cusp of a full-blown ground...

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Thomas Friedman: For Israel, a crucial choice is at hand

I have covered this conflict for almost 50 years, and I’ve seen Israelis and Palestinians do a lot of awful things to one another: Palestinian...

13.10.2023 2

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Israel Has Never Needed to Be Smarter Than in This Moment

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist I have covered this conflict for almost 50 years, and...

11.10.2023 10

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Thomas Friedman: Four leaders turning the world upside down

Ever since learning that in 1947, Walter Lippmann popularized the term “Cold War” to define the emerging conflict between the Soviet Union and the...

08.10.2023 5

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Israel’s Worst Day at War

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist When I need the most accurate analysis about Israel, the...

08.10.2023 200

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Thomas Friedman: Four leaders turning the world upside down

Ever since learning that in 1947, Walter Lippmann popularized the term “Cold War” to define the emerging conflict between the Soviet Union and the...

06.10.2023 3

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How Four Leaders Are Turning the World Upside Down

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist Ever since learning that in 1947, Walter Lippmann...

04.10.2023 10

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Biden to Netanyahu: You’ve Got Homework to Do

With age comes wisdom.

23.09.2023 9

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This Is My Shortest Column Ever. For a Reason.

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist This is the shortest column I’ve ever written — because...

20.09.2023 3

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A Trip to Ukraine Clarified the Stakes. And They’re Huge.

Advertisement Supported by Thomas L. Friedman By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist, reporting from Kyiv. While visiting Kyiv last week, my...

15.09.2023 200

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Thomas Friedman: A tricky path to a Middle East deal

The more I learn about the complex peace and security deal that the Biden team is trying to put together among the United States, Saudi Arabia, Israel...

10.09.2023 2

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Thomas Friedman: A tricky path to a Middle East deal

The more I learn about the complex peace and security deal that the Biden team is trying to put together among the United States, Saudi Arabia, Israel...

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