There he goes again. Bernie Sanders is hoping to force a vote to withhold arms to Israel, Captain Ahab once again chasing his blue-and-white whale as rage and obsession consume him. There is another classically tragic aspect to this: Bernie is living in a time and place entirely removed from our own. The war he is raging about on the Senate floor is not the war that is actually being fought in the Middle East. It’s a relic—much like Sanders himself—that is best left behind. Citing Hamas’s