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- Apr 7, 2014
Thomas Friedman’s “Arab Grocer”
I can imagine Mr. Sasson, Thomas Friedman’s “Arab grocer” in the 2012 re-issue of “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” shake his head with a “what’s the use trying to get this guy to understand…” In “Talking with my Arab Grocer,” Friedman takes the trouble to introduce us to Sasson, a Baghdadi Arabic Jewish immigrant, owner of a grocery store in Jerusalem. Friedman explains Sasson’s “whole life” as a Jew in Iraq “left him with the convictions that the Arabs would never willingly acce
