Those old enough to remember, if not the series, then the reruns, may recall Sergeant Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes, the sitcom about the German POW Camp where the Krauts were invariably outwitted by nominally captive Bob Crane and company.
Sergeant Schultz—no Nazi, just a German grunt in uniform—was a bumbling, decent-hearted sort who was always fooled, and sometimes enjoyed being conned by American prisoners.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, now forced to resign as DNC Chair over Wiki-Leaked emails brainstorming about how to turn Bernie Sanders’ religion—or lack thereof—against him, seems to me to share a number of character traits with the Sergeant. I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt about her faux pas not being malicious, but her heavy-handed ineptitude seems to me beyond doubt.
Seth Lipsky, the neocon former editor of the Forward, opines in Haaretz that her departure is yet another anti-Zionist purge of the Democratic Party.
My retort is that Chairperson Schultz's purge is good housekeeping not anti-Semitism, and that with friends like Debbie Israel doesn't need enemies.
