Monday, February 09, 2009

Amazing What You Find in Archives

"We are grinning like Cheshire cats," said Yisrael Medad, aide to Geula Cohen, a leader of the ultranationalist Tehiya party and a resident of Shilo on the West...


Volume 37, Number 15 · October 11, 1990
Making Way for the Messiah
By Robert I. Friedman
New York Review of Books

2 comments:

Soccer Dad said...

Friedman, the liar, died a few years ago. I wonder what the temperature's like where he's at now.

There were, as I recall, a number of factual errors in that article. He made up some Hebrew sounding phrase to describe Meir Belzberg.

YMedad said...

Friedman, despite the gulf between us, was a house guest of ours on several occasions and we would argue for hours. He contracted a weird disease as a result of a trip to Mumbai, if I recall correctly. He was stuck in an ideological fantasy world although as a professional investigative reporter, he had great promise.