Tom Friedman on Trump’s Gaza Plan: What if Xi Jinping Wakes up Tomorrow and Says ‘Taiwan, I Own You, Baby?’ ‘What Is the Difference?’

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FRIEDMAN: “And I fear for an Israel that is seen as engaging in ethnic cleansing. You do that and every Jew in the world will learn what it is to be a Jew in the world when the Jewish state is a pariah. I have no truck with Hamas. There are wicked, terrible organization, first and foremost for Palestinians. Their leadership needs to be remove and the people basically liberated from them. But this needs to be done with a coherent plan, not a president riffing about it and saying, 'You‘re going to take them and you‘re going to take them, and we‘re not going to pay anything, and I‘m going to own it.' What is this nonsense? What happens if Xi Jinping and China wakes up tomorrow and says to Taiwan, 'I own you, baby? All of you are going to have to leave or accept my leadership.' What is the difference?"