Do Israel's 'true friends' understand what's at stake?

Evelyn Gordon quotes the following from a recent Tom Friedman column:

There is an unspoken question in the mind of virtually every Israeli
that you need to answer correctly: ‘Do you understand what neighborhood
I’m living in?
The real question is whether Tom himself understands (let along those criticized by Evelyn), but Gordon supplies ample quotes from most of our enemies in the