Here is how Obama threw Khalidi under the bus, per the JPost:
Asked by a member of the Jewish community about the relationship during a campaign stop in Florida, Obama responded, "To pluck out one person who I know and who I've had a conversation with who has very different views than 900 of my friends and then to suggest that somehow that shows that maybe I'm not sufficiently pro-Israel, I think, is a very problematic stand to take …. We gotta be careful about guilt by association."
Some friend. Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune says that Obama has approached Congressman and powerbroker Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff. Emanuel's aide Sarah Feinberg denies this in an email. Jews in the news. Emanuel is the son of Israeli immigrants. He made gazillions as an investment banker in no time after leaving the Clinton administration, then ran for Congress. Of course he was a big supporter of the disastrous Iraq war. Now he's is the bankroll for a lot of Democratic candidacies around the country.
I wonder whether Jewish power will become any kind of issue now that a third presidential administration is about to defer to this reality in our public life (so brilliantly encapsulated by Avraham Burg in his new book: "The combination of the American state's power and the Jewish power in the areas of legislation, administration, media, law, business, culture, and entertainment have made the Jews a defining factor of contemporary America."). I wonder whether Emanuel's service in Israel, at a military base, as a volunteer, I believe, during the '91 Persian Gulf war, will be journo-fodder. He was subsequently accused of dual loyalty, by an ally of his primary opponent in Chicago in 2002, and there was a legal fracas over this. Emanuel wasn't actually in the army.
But the point generalizes, as Chomsky likes to say: Why is there a revolving door between Israeli society and ours? Since when did our interests in the Middle East become utterly congruent with a state practicing apartheid against Arabs? Why does the prohibition on "radical Islam" extend to all American Palestinians? What about radical Jewry?
PS. Jack Ross sees the upside: "Would you rather he be White House chief of staff or the likely successor to Nancy Pelosi? Two years ago I was hoping Pelosi would make him Democratic Whip in the name of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Thus I was a little nervous – though absolutely not as hysterical as others – when he held the ceremonial position of 'Democratic caucus chairman'. But now Obama will put him in his place, as he definitely knows how to keep his friends close and his enemies closer."
Related posts:
- Volunteer Group Emanuel Served With Sometimes Wears Keffiyahs–Sorry, I Meant Israeli Army Uniforms
- Fox Headline: ‘Prominent Jewish Congressman Emanuel Floated as Obama Chief of Staff’
- Emanuel and Summers Have Obama Right Where They Want Him
- Press Differs on Whether Emanuel Will Serve Israel
- What Did Rahm Emanuel Do in Israel in ‘91?
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One other reason why I refuse to vote for the annointed one. Someone who sells out their lifelong friends, a president who picks a foreigner to be chief of staff– not any president I want to have anything to do with.
You libs are going to be very surprised/ disappointed, when Obama increases military spending, expands the war in Afganistan, and refuses to put forward any timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
The only thing good I can say about Obama is that he is not McCain, but to be honest, I don't think McCain could afford to be half as agressive militarily as Obama, given how badly the repugs have misplayed their hand.
On the other hand, if Obama loses, I will be laughing, laughing– as Alexander Cockburn says, the best thing for the world itself is to see the true face of American empire, not some candy-coated dreamboat like Obama.
Americans need to start asking whether the USA is a Rechtstaat, where laws are enforced according to a regular, predictable and non-descriminatory system, or a Judenstaat, where Jews are privileged over non-Jews.
Zajanckauskas, Henss, Selective Prosecution and Equal Protection
Another element of the Israel Lobby?
by Joachim Martillo
The Functions Manual: Criminal Division of the DOJ (http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/mps/manual/crm.ht) says the following on the Office of Special Investigations.
As far as I know the OSI has investigated neither for Jews involved in Soviet torture, extrajudicial killings, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, or genocide nor for Jews involved in revenge killings or torture after the defeat of Nazi Germany nor for Jews involved in pre-state Zionist or Israeli torture, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide, or extrajudicial killings. Yet both Polish and also Lithuanian prosecutors have indicted or investigated Israeli Jews for such crimes. (See http://tinyurl.com/25zwfp for discussion of a Lithuanian case.) Is there some sort of equal protection violation in the possibly selective prosecution of someone like Zajanckauskas
or Henss?
According to Wikipedia, Congressman Rahm Emanuel's father, the Jerusalem-born pediatrician Benjamin M. Emanuel, was a member of the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary terrorist organization that committed mass murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide, terrorism, and extrajudicial killings. So far OSI has undertaken neither investigation nor legal action against either Benjamin Emanuel or the multitudes of similar Zionist or Soviet Ashkenazi immigrants with similar criminal backgrounds. Does the OSI only prosecute non-Jews? Can non-Jewish Eastern Europeans or Palestinians receive any justice from the US DOJ?
I do not know about Rep Rahm Emanuel's dual loyalty. However, it has been alleged, he pressurised at least one democratic candidate running in ILLINOIS for congress to support Israel unconditionally or he would not receive funding from the NDP.
If he does become the chief of staff if Sen Obama is elected, I do not know whether he will be speaking for our country or Israel if he has dual loyalty.
Weiss: "Why is there a revolving door between Israeli society and ours? Since when did our interests in the Middle East become utterly congruent with a state practicing apartheid against Arabs?"
Since Jewish Zionist representatives of the Nation of Zion like Emanuel and those before him, who promoted and enabled him and each other, infiltrated American government and the American elite. They're running an ethnic racket, and a deeply bigoted one at that. How did Emanuel ever get a security clearance in the Clinton White House? Same way Wolfowitz and Feith got one in the Bush White House: the Zionist "pass." And the two-party regime professes to take security seriously.
The revolving door makes me, as an American, want to puke. My nation has been hijacked and my fellow Americans mostly do not
even see this.
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