Former President Donald Trump's former ambassador to Israel is out with a new book offering a solution for Mideast peace: backing the concept of a single Jewish state in Palestine.
David Friedman was a key architect of the Abraham Accords, and he says Israel and the U.S. need to embrace the reality that a two-state solution simply won't work.
An Amazon bestseller, "One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" argues that President Biden’s policies are doomed to failure and only put Israel in greater danger.
Friedman told Newsmax Wednesday that the Justice Department's indictment of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was a political calculation designed to win votes for the Democrats in November's presidential election.
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"You remember the movie 'Animal House?' At the end of the movie, Otter gets up and says, 'We need a really stupid and futile gesture,' right? That's what [Attorney General] Merrick Garland did — a really stupid and futile gesture," Friedman said.
Friedman expressed shock the Department of Justice took so long to act.
"I mean, it's been a year. You could have indicted Yahya Sinwar on Oct. 8 — there was enough evidence to indict him," he said.
Friedman says the indictment was simply the "Biden playbook of politically trying to score points with Jewish voters ..."
Sinwar and the other Hamas leaders indicted by the DOJ "are not spending one second of their time fearing the American justice system," Friedman said.
"Their goal is to kill as many people as possible before they are killed themselves," he said.
The former ambassador and author then speculated the reason the Biden-Harris administration has been more critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than of the Hamas terrorists is because "the city of Dearborn, Michigan," will figure prominently into whether Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris wins the state.
"Michigan is a key swing state," Friedman said. "There are tens of thousands of people who are running around with keffiyehs on, attacking Israel and college campuses and on the streets, and, of course, they're also attacking America. They're not voting for [former President Donald] Trump. Why would they? So maybe he thinks he can get a few of them, peel a few of them off. Everything is calibrated toward the election."
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