Tom Friedman tries to pull back from irrelevance

Last week, Tom Friedman wrote an article in the New York Times, in which he warned Prime Minister Netanyahu that his ovation in Congress a few months ago was "bought and paid for by the Israel lobby."The reaction has been furious, and the Jewish Week reported on Tuesday that Friedman now regrets the use of the term "bought and paid for" and wishes he had written "engineered" instead - as if that