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How Netanyahu played Trump for a fool in Gaza

This is the first Israeli-Palestinian war where the worst leaders on both sides are calling all the shots.

30.07.2025 4

Financial Review

Thomas Friedman

Attacks on Iran are part of a much bigger global struggle

Vladimir Putin and the ayatollahs want the exact same kind of world. That is a world safe for autocracy, safe for theocracy, safe for their...

23.06.2025 10

Financial Review

Thomas Friedman

The flashing signals I just saw in Israel

Israelis and Gazans both feel trapped by leaders they no longer trust.

30.05.2025 5

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Thomas Friedman

A great unravelling is under way in the greatest country on earth

I am haunted by Abraham Lincoln’s warning that the only power that can destroy America is ourselves. If you aren’t worried by that prospect, you...

13.03.2025 8

Financial Review

Thomas Friedman

Three giant challenges that will define Trump’s second term

The president-elect faces some huge shifting tectonic plates that have profound implications for the US administration and the world, writes Thomas...

27.11.2024 8

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Thomas Friedman

Iran is playing a dangerous game

There are plenty of reasons to be suspicious of Benjamin Netanyahu’s motives. But Tehran has an even uglier strategy to disrupt the Middle East.

02.08.2024 1

Financial Review

Thomas Friedman

Both men running for US president are unfit for the job

One is a good man in obvious cognitive and physical decline, and the other is a bad man who lies as he breathes – and who is in his own cognitive...

10.07.2024 1

Financial Review

Thomas Friedman