It's been speculated this pick will piss off Netanyahu because Friedman is to his right and it will make it harder for Bibi to fend off attacks from the Israeli right.
I heard he's against the two state solution. Good. That'll only accelerate a single, unified Palestine where the Palestinians eventually become a demographic majority.
Which is specifically desirable why, exactly?Because the "peace process leading to a two-state solution" has from the onset been a newspeak-facade that actually means stalling for time until Israel gets to have its cake and eat it too by making the settlements a permanent fait accompli, while not taking a demographic hit by "generously" granting the Palestinians their own "state" in the form of isolated bantustans the size of cities.
