<p style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman appeared on CNN this past Saturday to offer a masterclass in the paralyzing pathology of the modern Left: he is so consumed by his visceral hatred for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu that he is &#8220;torn&#8221; over whether he actually wants to see a genocidal, terror-sponsoring regime in Iran defeated.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-path-to-node="1">&#8220;I really want to see Iran defeated militarily,&#8221; Friedman admitted, acknowledging that the regime is &#8220;terrible&#8221; for its people and the region. But the &#8220;enlightened&#8221; foreign policy dean immediately hit a wall of his own making. &#8220;The problem is I really don&#8217;t want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are two awful human beings.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">For Friedman, the prospect of two democratically elected leaders—whom he smeared as &#8220;alleged crooks&#8221; and &#8220;terrible, terrible people&#8221;—achieving a geopolitical victory is apparently a fate worse than the continued survival of the Ayatollahs.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don’t want Iran to lose if it means Trump wins. <a href="https://twitter.com/tomfriedman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TomFriedman</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYTimes</a> really wants “to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region,” but on CNN’s <a href="https://twitter.com/smerconish?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Smerconish</a> he fretted “the problem is I really don’t want to see Bibi… <a href="https://t.co/rgPngGXkGc">pic.twitter.com/rgPngGXkGc</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/2043048290523005341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-path-to-node="2">The Left would rather watch the world burn than allow their political opponents to claim a win. Friedman’s obsession with Netanyahu isn&#8217;t a new development; it’s a long-documented fixation that frequently veers into the deranged.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Friedman has been railing against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for years; he has denounced the concept of Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria (the so-called “West Bank”), <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/opinion/dead-man-walking.html">calling</a> Israeli settlements a “cancer for the Jewish people.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">After President Trump announced that he was going to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, Friedman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssTZuFWNKSc">slammed the decision</a>, saying the United States should have demanded concessions from Netanyahu before committing to the move. In 2023, as a historic normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia loomed, Friedman didn&#8217;t see an opportunity for Middle East stability. Instead, he wrote a column encouraging the Saudis to snub the deal because he deemed Netanyahu&#8217;s right-wing government &#8220;not normal.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Friedman’s rhetoric has often crossed the line from policy critique into personal vilification. As the Algemeiner <a href="applewebdata://36DA76B4-D3E7-4476-B970-DEE10AE85A1F/Algemeiner">pointed out</a>, he has previously likened Netanyahu to a &#8220;dog&#8221; and an &#8220;alcoholic,&#8221; echoing tropes that are deeply offensive in the Middle Eastern context. He famously justified the Obama administration’s condescension toward Israel by stating, &#8220;friends don&#8217;t let friends drive drunk,&#8221; even while that same administration was busy sending billions in sanctions relief to Tehran.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Friedman represents a pundit class that views the world through a narrow straw of personal grievance. To him, the &#8220;physics&#8221; of Middle East peace are a game of tic-tac-toe that only he can solve, yet his solution is always the same: marginalize the conservative leaders he despises, even if it means leaving a vacuum for real monsters to fill.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;" data-path-to-node="11">Friedman’s loathing for Trump and Netanyahu has become his primary North Star, overriding even the desire to see a murderous regime in Iran brought to its knees. If a victory for the West means a victory for his political enemies, Friedman would apparently rather the West didn&#8217;t win at all.</p>

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