As is the case whenever Israel conducts a major military campaign, the ongoing IDF assault on Gaza — which has annihilated hundreds of non-combatants, including children — has flushed the bigots out of the brush. One particularly notorious specimen encapsulated the message sent by Israel’s strike against Hamas in terms that should resonate among die-hard anti-Semites: "Do not f**k with the Jews." That sentiment was not put into play by a neo-Nazi or someone else plagued by similar obsessions. It was Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic, self-appointed authority on matters of ethnic etiquette, and Al Gore’s Harvard-era academic … Continue reading The Bubble of Middle-East Dominance