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man as "the New York Times' State
Department spokesman."
Indeed, Alex Safian, associate direc-
tor of the Committee for Accuracy in
Middle East Reporting in America, a
Boston-based non-profit media watch
organization, finds Friedman almost
immature in his writing and reporting.
Safian talks about a part in Fried-
man's book where Friedman compares
the view of many Israelis toward Pales-
tinians in the same terms as how blacks
were viewed in the deep South during
the U.S. civil rights movement.
"He ignores the existential threat to
Israel," said Safian. "He puts these
Israelis in terms of racists. In another
part of the book, Friedman writes about
the chronology of the Middle East. In
1948, he writes that the Arab nations
joined with the local Palestinians against
Israel. Well, 1 percent of Israel's popula-
tion was killed or wounded. He doesn't
say the Arabs attacked or invaded. He
makes it sound like a PTA meeting. It
makes you wonder what the parameters
are.
"This is serious business. These are
life-and-death issues. He doesn't take
the matter seriously. If anything hap-
pens, he can come home to Chevy
Chase. It's easy for him to say, 'Take a
risk for peace,' but he's not the one rid-
ing the buses.
"I wouldn't tell people not to read
Tom Friedman. The guy is well con-
nected. If you wanted to know what
was going on in the State Department,
you had to read Tom Friedman.
"He was the mouthpiece for James
Baker. Everyone knew it. I don't think
Too Close To Subject?
people should take his word as gospel,
Friedman's critics also question what
that's all. Read him skeptically."
they feel was a too-close-for-comfort
Robert 0. Freedman, president of
relationship with Bush administration
Baltimore Hebrew University, calls
Secretary of State James Baker. Indeed,
Friedman "one of the best, if not the
the New Republic once referred to Fried-
best, Middle East analysts around. He's

eerie hallways of Yad Vashem, doesn't
plan for the future and doesn't think
about bold initiatives," wrote Fried-
man.
He was quick to answer his critics.
"I interviewed the deputy comman-
der of the Israeli raid on [the Osirak
nuclear reactor near] Baghdad," Fried-
man said. "That's where I got the idea
in some ways that there was this tension
in Israel, a deep sense of victimhood or
vulnerability which is thoroughly
understandable.
"If you place that in contrast with
the actual reality of the state, it doesn't
work. You have a nuclear power with
one of the largest, most sophisticated air
forces in the world. Israel needs to see
that it has the power to shape its own
future, and that it isn't just a victim. It
doesn't have to be reactive. I think it
can take calculated risks for peace, but
they have to be very carefully calculated.
"And that is because I believe Israel is
a very powerful country, and I thank
God for that. I think that, since my
book was published, it's only become
more powerful. The gap between Israel
and its neighbors in a technological
sense is wider today, not narrower."
That gap, he said, isn't such a good
thing. Israel, he said, has interest in the
economics of the poorer countries
around it. Helping them economically
will make the area more stable.
"If the Arab countries are more inter-
ested with integrating into the global
economy, they will be more interested
in making money than making trou-
ble."