For as long as I have been writing about the Middle East, Thomas L. Friedman has been one of my favorite foils.I don’t mean that personally. Friedman is an accomplished journalist, a gifted writer and the possessor of perhaps the most influential foreign-policy column in America. The problem is that when it comes to Israel and the Middle East, he has been spectacularly, repeatedly and confidently wrong.More remarkably, being wrong never seems to…