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							<title><![CDATA[It's Already Too Late To Stop the AI Threat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1196313/opinion/international/too-late-to-stop-the-ai-threat</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China and the United States must work to repair the damage A.I. has done now, not look to future developments.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America&rsquo;s Future]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/3vUhu</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last year has been one of the most depressing of my nearly 50 years as a journalist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Think About Trump's War With Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/ae8RC</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To think clearly about Middle East wars, you need to hold multiple thoughts in your head at the same time. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a complicated, kaleidoscopic region where religion, oil, tribal politics and great power politics interweave in every major story. If you are looking for a black-and-white...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Netanyahu Plays Trump &amp; American Jews for Fools - Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/02/18/opinion-netanyahu-plays-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s stop beating around the bush: Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s far-right government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is spitting in America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s face and telling us it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s raining. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not raining. Bibi is playing President Donald Trump and American Jews for fools. And if...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is a Good Man &amp; President. He Must Bow Out]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/06/28/joe-biden-is-a-good-man-and-a-good-president-he-must-bow-out-of-the-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I watched the Biden-Trump debate alone in a Lisbon hotel room, and it made me weep. I cannot remember a]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bibi Chooses Stefanik &amp; Trump. Biden, Don't Be Fooled]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/05/21/bibi-is-choosing-stefanik-and-trump-president-biden-dont-be-fooled/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you are keeping score at home, you have surely noticed that the two most important defense officials in Benjamin]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel Has a Choice To Make: Rafah or Riyadh]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/26/israel-has-a-choice-to-make-rafah-or-riyadh/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. diplomacy to end the Gaza war and forge a new relationship with Saudi Arabia has been converging in recent]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Be Pro-Palestinian, Pro-Israeli and Pro-Iranian]]></title>
							<link>https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F04%2F16%2Fopinion%2Fisrael-iran-gaza.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Support leadership change in Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Without that, there's zero chance for resolution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Netanyahu Is Making Israel Radioactive]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/03/12/netanyahu-is-making-israel-radioactive/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Israel today is in grave danger. With enemies like Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran, Israel should be enjoying the]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's GOP Is a Confederacy of Fakers]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/02/21/trumps-g-o-p-is-a-confederacy-of-fakers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've got a suggestion for the next Trump-G.O.P. fund-raising scheme. You know how sports memorabilia stores sometimes sell basketballs autographed]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Netanyahu Is Turning Against Biden]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2024/01/19/netanyahu-is-turning-against-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It looks as if President Biden will be running in two races this year: one in America against Donald Trump]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Israel-Hamas War Was Not Inevitable]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/12/29/what-is-happening-to-our-world/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s foreign affairs columnist since 1995, one of the most enduring lessons I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve learned is that there are good seasons and bad seasons in this business, which are defined by the big choices made by the biggest players.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Understanding the True Nature of the Hamas-Israel War]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/28/understanding-the-true-nature-of-the-hamas-israel-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reason the Hamas-Israel war can be hard for outsiders to understand is that three wars are going on at]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Have Never Been to This Israel Before]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/09/i-have-never-been-to-this-israel-before/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People warned me before I came to Tel Aviv a few days ago that the Israel of Oct. 7 is an Israel that I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve never been to before.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Please, Israel, Don't Get Lost in Hamas' Tunnels]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/10/29/please-israel-dont-get-lost-in-hamass-tunnels/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am watching the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza today and thinking about one of the world leaders I've most admired:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why a Gaza Invasion Is Wrong for Israel]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/10/16/why-a-gaza-invasion-and-once-and-for-all-thinking-are-wrong-for-israel/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When The Times's Israel correspondent Isabel Kershner recently asked an Israeli army tank driver, Shai Levy, 37, to describe the]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Israel Is Acting This Way]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/10/14/why-israel-is-acting-this-way/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the Middle East on the cusp of a full-blown ground war, I was thinking on Friday morning about how Israel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s last two major wars have two very important things in common: They were both started by nonstate actors backed by Iran '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Hezbollah from Lebanon in 2006 and Hamas...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel's Worst Day at War]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/10/07/israels-worst-day-at-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The shock waves of the Hamas attack on Israel will reach Iran, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only Biden Can Save Israel Now]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/23/only-biden-can-save-israel-now/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dear President Biden: In October 1973, the armies of Egypt and Syria launched a surprise pincer attack on Israel.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin, Prigozhin and the Danger of Disorder]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/06/27/putin-prigozhin-and-the-danger-of-disorder/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The events playing out in Russia feel like the trailer for the next James Bond movie: Vladimir Putin's ex-chef/ex-cyber-hacker/current mercenary]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Year 2 of the Ukraine War Is Going To Get Scary]]></title>
							<link>https://web.archive.org/web/20230206001026/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opinion/ukraine-war-putin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the war's first year, America and its allies have had it relatively easy. Will the West bear any burden to uphold a liberal world order?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Israel We Knew Is Gone]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/04/the-israel-we-knew-is-gone/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine you woke up after the 2024 U.S. presidential election and found that Donald Trump had been re-elected and chose Rudy Giuliani for attorney general, Michael Flynn for defense secretary, Steve Bannon for commerce secretary, evangelical leader James Dobson for education secretary,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Admin Getting Too Deep Into Conflict With Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3632156/thomas-l-friedman/war-getting-more-dangerous-america-and-biden-knows-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you just followed news reports on Ukraine, you might think that the war has settled into a long, grinding and somewhat boring slog. You would be wrong.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Free Advice for Putin: 'Make Peace, You Fool']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/opinion/putin-ukraine-war-strategy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Arquilla explains how Ukrainians have adopted the three new rules of war.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Do We Deal w/Superpower Led by a War Criminal?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's never been a pariah state as consequential as Russia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Defeat Putin and Save the Planet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/opinion/how-to-defeat-putin-and-save-the-planet.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The technology is here. We can now put Putin over a barrel. It is just a matter of leadership and national will.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Scenarios for How This War Ends]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/opinion/ukraine-russia-putin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every day that Putin refuses to stop we get closer to the gates of hell.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[3 Cheers for Neil Young and Liz Cheney]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/opinion/neil-young-liz-cheney-climate-misinformation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We need truth and trust for our democracy, our health and our planet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin to Ukraine: 'Marry Me or I'll Kill You']]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/opinion/putin-ukraine.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He's not particularly concerned, though, with what's in Ukraine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden-Cheney 2024?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/opinion/democratic-ticket-liz-cheney-2024.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Friedman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Saving American democracy may involve following Israel's example.]]></description>
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