The chicken or the egg?

Israel Matzav reported about a Tom Friedman column in the New York Times.
I should also note that the two paragraphs quoted above could have been written by Stephen Walt. Walt's delusions also include AIPAC as a 'feared arbiter' of who is and who is not pro-Israel.

I decided to compare the wrtings of the two men.
Below is an excerpt from an article published by Stephen Walt on July 30th followed by the Tom Friedman column. Great minds think alike, wouldn't you agree?

In his book Scars of War, Wounds of Peace, former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami wrote that the two presidents who did the most to advance Arab-Israeli peace were Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush. Carter negotiated the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and Bush 41 led the 1991 Gulf War coalition and assembled the 1992 Madrid Peace Conference. According to Ben-Ami, Carter and Bush made progress on this difficult issue because each was willing "to confront Israel head one and overlook the sensibilities of her friends in America."
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/30/this_year_in_jerusalem

The three U.S. statesmen who have done the most to make Israel more secure and accepted in the region all told blunt truths to every Israeli or Arab leader: Jimmy Carter, who helped forge a lasting peace between Israel and Egypt; Henry Kissinger, who built the post-1973 war disengagement agreements with Syria, Israel and Egypt; and James Baker, who engineered the Madrid peace conference.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/opinion/friedman-why-not-in-vegas.html?_r=1

Below are two stories in the spirit of "the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley" or "Men tracht und G-tt lacht."

Hannah Furness reports the following:

Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, has got stuck dangling in mid-air while riding a zip wire as part of the London 2012 Olympic celebrations.
Continue reading: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9444065/Boris-Johnson-gets-stuck-on-zip-wire-carrying-two-Union-flags.html

The Daily Telegraph reports Badminton pairs expelled from London 2012 Olympics after 'match-fixing' scandal.