Posted on 04/14/2025 12:49:11 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Daniel Wakin, the New York Times Deputy International Editor of Opinion, had an "Opinion Today" item in the paper's April 14th edition promoting a guest essay on the Op-Ed page entitled, "The U.S. Must Now Reckon With a Hegemon in the Mideast: Israel."
The beginning of Wakin's item [emphasis added] reads:
"Ancient Rome in the Mediterranean. The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. The United States in the Western Hemisphere, for that matter. History is rife with nations and empires seeking to become dominant in a region or larger swath of the world. It is called hegemony. Aaron David Miller and Steven Simon, two experts on the Middle East, argue that the moment has come to declare Israel a hegemon, or at least something that looks a lot like it."
Given that Wakin analogizes Israel to the Roman Empire, the Soviet Union, and the USA, you'd assume that the essay's authors—a veteran foreign policy hand who served in several administrations, and a former Clinton foreign policy aide— did the same. In fact, they did no such thing.
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New York Times editor analogizes Israel to great world powers like Soviet Union, Roman Empire, USA.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
And New Jersey is the Colossus of the US.
where does the NYSlimes get such ignorant writers?
any third grader knows better (even a public school third grader)
An Israeli diplomat said, “If the Arabs didn’t have Israel to hate they’d have to invent us.”
Apparently, Jews protecting themselves against savages that strangle babies is forbidden to the NYT.
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From the America-hating "schools" in which they spawned.
Islam is the hegemonic 500lb. Gorilla in the room.
yes it has to be the schools
or maybe there’s some sort of food additive or environmental cause for such mental deficiency?
Only deeply dedicated communists would use lingo like that, in my opinion. So dedicatrd they are blind to facts and logic.
Someone should show the NYT a map of Israel.
Israel is 290 miles long and 9 miles wide at its narrowest part.
I guess when it comes to hegemony, Red China is the elephant in the room you never mention.
Ultimately there will be a New Jerusalem but no New Mecca, New New York, New Tehran etc etc.
What a disgrace! Next they’ll run a piece claiming that there really was a Jewish plot against the Germans.
It’s so cute when these folks learn a new word!
What trash. It is HAMAS and militant (true) Islam that seeks to become dominant in a region or larger swath of the world - as did the Soviet Union, and which glory Putin longs for - thus Israel, which had made many concessions for peace, fights to live in peace. Your image is relevant: https://cdn.newsbusters.org/styles/blog_image_50_/s3/2025-04/map.JPG?itok=A556UEsg
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. (Psalms 120:6-7)
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