The New York Times uncritically promoted the plan, in the process nearly erasing the criminal record of the Saudi ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Biden’s proposed comprehensive peace agreement was truly a jaw dropper. He, for some reason, released it in an interview with Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who — no doubt as Biden intended — started cheerleading for it immediately. What’s even more surprising and amusing in this proposed peace plan is that 20 years ago, Thomas Friedman actually had direct involvement in its more plausible predecessor, the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002. For now, though, for the New York Times to pretend that a comprehensive peace could break out any time soon in Israel/Palestine is journalistic malpractice.

Source: New York Times August 03, 2023 18:12 UTC