Last week Fox mascot Brian Kilmeade proved a point that we’ve seen over and over which is that the way to avoid getting fired from your job as a media personality is to say something about an ethnic or religious group that it’s okay to hate. If Rick Sanchez had said something nasty about Muslims instead of Jews, he’d still be at CNN.
The other way to get away with this is to talk smack about a religious group most Americans know very little about. So here’s Marty Peretz, fresh off of not facing any consequences for a career of anti-Muslim sentiment, picking a new target:
For some time, the Obama administration feigned support for the Sunni center dominated by the Hariri many-billions kleptocracy which allied itself with the mostly Maronite Christians and the Druze. But Christians, including those associated with a neo-fascistic general Michel Aoun, also defected to the Shi’a, as did the congenitally untrustworthy Druze, always ready to make a deal they will break.
The Druze are a small religious sect whose Israeli members participate in the IDF in large numbers. Israeli Druze are generally considered very patriotic. Like most religious minorities, they tend to hew to nationalistic loyalties above religious ones as a matter of self preservation–so Syrian Druze are supporters of the Baathist regime, while Israeli Druze are very pro-Israel. I suppose this is what makes them, in Peretz’ view, “congenitally untrustworthy,” most other people would refer to it as “assimilation.”
In any case no one other than Matt Duss really noticed, so talking heads, there’s your green light to engage in some gratuitous Druze bashing.
