I already realized that US Ambassador to Israel nominee David Friedman, in addition to supporting the worst and most violent elements in Israeli society, is in fact a terrible person. But I didn’t know how far he’d gone in prostituting the Holocaust in the service of his friend and client Donald Trump.
In his latest column in Haaretz column Peter Beinart digs up this quote ….
October 20, 2016: “While the revelation of Mr. Trump’s demeaning comments caught on tape some 11 years ago brought him, as one would expect, widespread negative attention, The New York Times ran with the story with all the journalistic integrity of the worst gossip rag. If only the Times had reported on the Nazi death camps with the same fervor as its failed last-minute attempt to conjure up alleged victims of Donald Trump, imagine how many lives could have been saved.”
I did not realize you could leverage the Holocaust and the 6 million Jewish victims as a cudgel to defend a man caught on tape bragging about ‘grabbing’ women by their ‘pussies’ and coercing sex. But you can. David Friedman did. And he’ll be our next Ambassador to Israel.
