Friedman's the poster-boy of the "even handed" treatment of the Israeli-Arab conflict that presumes that if there are two agrieved parties then it is the job of an unbiased journalist to show that both parties are at fault and that both parties are equally at fault. Of course, if one party is responsible for most of the friction and acrimony in the conflict, that party will love the Friedman approach since it will help transfer half of the blame to the other side. Let's see what the rape victim could have done to prevent this horrible state of affairs?

He has little credibility left in the post-Oslo post-second-intifada world. Even Israelis on the left now understand that the Pali leadership is hell-bent on Israel's destruction. The last one to sort that out will be Friedman.