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…
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