"Thomas Friedman just wrote a column about Israel for The New York Times that says the Palestinian issue doesn’t matter. “[T]he Arab-Israel conflict for Israel… has largely disappeared,” he says. Israel is in the same boat as the U.S., building a diverse “idealistic” country in the face of rightwing trends.

This approach by the leading foreign affairs columnist is significant. It shows how liberal Zionists are responding to the bad news Israel got in January, being labeled an apartheid state by a leading Israeli human rights organization, at a time of “mounting recognition” of this fact internationally.

Liberal Zionists and the New York Times have ignored the apartheid charge. They don’t seem to care that an organization led by Jews has designated Israel an apartheid state so long as nobody who matters– American government officials– cares about it."