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| …It has been a while since LTF (Thomas L. Friedman) was a topic here. As a rule of thumb, he makes me sick. I think he is a dummy about a lot of things, the ultimate middlebrow, and so I do not read him.
But in times like this when antiJew passions flare up, he pipes up, and never mind his record of foolishness about Israel and the Middle East, about which he has been proven wrong time and again. He still presses on in the belief he has something intelligent to say. In his opinionating on Tuesday he spread once again the mistaken liberal Jewish myth that the Ottomans had a live-and-let-live mentality towards their subjects. This is such rubbish. They were a corrupt truly imperial nation who unlike the Christian colonial enterprise which developed the lands it conquered, the Turks just wanted to rule over them for their taxes. And as for their legendary live and let-live ecumenical rule, more nonsense: the law of the land under the Caliphate was the Sharia and its animosity to the Jewish people is a matter of record; its abuse of Jews and non-Muslim nations… |
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