Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "The Illusions Shattered by October 7 | Matti Friedman" video.
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Friedman is a total ignoramus. He visits a country, talks to a couple of taxi drivers, then pretends to be an expert, and writes a book for the left. He gets away with it, in part, because many people don't know better. I heard him interviewed early in the Iraq War, and he had no idea what he was talking about. I'd read one book about Iraq - written by the famous Cockburn brothers, who happen to be beloved by the left - and it couldn't have been clearer that Friedman was making things up; his interviewer simply didn't know better. It wasn't even a lot of bias, just ignorance pretending to be an expert. Having read a single book, I already knew the subject matter far more deeply than Friedman did, who was just flailing, trying to sound like an expert despite being the opposite. So I called in and challenged Friedman, and he insulted me with something non-sensical, because he had no idea what to say.
He mostly writes stuff about Israel and the "Palestinians", and again, he is pretending to be knowledgeable, while largely repeating propaganda he heard before he ever visited the area. In short, he's a total fraud, pulling the wool over the eyes of a compliant media who choose to assume he knows the intricate facts, while he actually knows nothing.
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