![]() ![]() It was an Israel that talked about ‘purity of arms’ to itself, but in the real world had learned to play by Hama Rules, just like everyone in the neighborhood.” “The Israel I met on the outskirts of Beirut was not the heroic Israel I had been taught to identify with. ![]() “Sabra and Chatilla was something of a personal crisis for me,” Friedman writes. In 1982, in order to put down a revolt by the Muslim Brotherhood, Syrian President Hafez Assad ordered the leveling of Hama and Homs, two of the oldest cities in Syria. The change dates from the Sabra and Chatilla massacres of September, 1982, where hundreds of Arabs were slain by Christian Falangist militiamen permitted into the refugee camps by the Israeli military command.įriedman coins the phrase “Hama Rules” for the ruthless ethos of the Middle East. Thomas Friedman, the New York Times diplomatic correspondent and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for reporting in Lebanon and Israel, has written an intimate portrait of his 10 years of reporting in the Middle East, chronicling his change from awe-struck lover of Israel to outspoken critic. ![]()
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