As the fighting in the Gaza Strip continues and international coverage is biased against Israel, at least one media figure in the US is aiming his barbs directly at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a particularly harsh column published Monday, New York Times political analyst Thomas Friedman claims that Netanyahu is collaborating with Hamas in order to remain in power.
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Friedman compares the ethno-religious escalation seen in Israel's mixed cities and in the Gaza Strip to the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former US President Donald Trump.
According to Friedman just like Trump unleashed a mob on the Capitol in a "last-ditch effort to overturn the election results, Netanyahu and Hamas "each exploited or nurtured their own mobs to prevent an unprecedented national unity government from emerging in Israel."
"The latest rerun of their long-running nasty show is happening now because both were staring at an amazing breakthrough shaping up between Israeli Jews and Israel Arab Muslims – and, like the pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, they wanted to destroy the possibility of political change before it could destroy them politically," he writes.
Friedman argues that for 12 years Hamas' "one mission" has been to keep Netanyahu in power so they and their Iranian sponsors could tell supporters in Europe that they, Hamas, were not the problem – it was the "terrible pro-settler Netanyahu government."
In the column, Friedman does take the trouble to explain that, "No, Hamas and Bibi don't talk. They don't need to. They each understand what the other needs to stay in power and consciously or unconsciously behave in ways to ensure that they deliver it."
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