Well, he doesn't "fisk" him exactly, but he's not exactly impressed with Friedman's Times editorial of the other day in which he stated that "Mr. Sharon has Mr. Arafat surrounded by tanks, and Mr. Bush surrounded by Jewish and Christian pro-Israel lobbyists, by a vice president, Dick Cheney, who's ready to do whatever Mr. Sharon dictates, and by political handlers telling the president not to put any pressure on Israel in an election year..." Koch points out that this is typical of what we normally consider antisemitic conspiracy-theory rhetoric, and that, coming from another source, we'd probably take it that way. I don't think it's quite as bad as that (though I see the point), but Koch isn't letting Friedman off the hook. Certainly, Friedman is treading that ground where one must be very careful not to step over into loony-leftville. Farrakhan and self-hater Bob Novak also come quite appropriately under the gun here.

Yes, Jews do engage in anti-Semitic behavior