The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (headquartered in the U.S.) says Obama chose Emanuel strictly for his attack-dog executive abilities:
One thing Emanuel is not, all agree, is the president-elect’s conciliatory signal to the Jewish community after a campaign fraught with worries that Obama would tip toward even-handedness in dealing with the Middle East. Emanuel was chosen strictly for his political skills and his closeness to Obama, said Steve Rabinowitz, whose public relations firms does work with both Jewish groups and the Democratic Party and its affiliates. His closeness to the Jewish community "would be a tiny factor, if at all" in the hiring, Rabinowitz said.
But according to AFP/the European Jewish Press:
"Israeli media on Thursday hailed Barack Obama's choice of Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff, with one daily [Maariv] calling the Democrat of Israeli descent 'our man in the White House.'"
I would add that Rahm Emanuel once headed the Democratic congressional campaign committee, which is involved in getting money to candidates around the country. Long ago the Washington Post said more than half that money comes from Jews. I once asked the aforementioned Steve Rabinowitz, a Clinton friend, about this. He said that Jewish giving to Democrats was so high that if anyone did a study of it, it would fuel conspiracy theories. Maybe it would just fuel journalism, and democracy.
Rahm Emanuel is not unconterversial in Israel even. He was a force behind the Oslo accords, which Likud consistently opposed.
The journalism that identifying that Jews were the majority of political donors says two things:
1. That Jews do donate to have their voices heard
2. That others don't
Which do you think is the bigger lapse?
Rahm is good at what he does, but it's also a CYA move re the Jews. i think one of his first jobs will be taking the conflict in the Middle East OFF the top of the agenda. otherwise Obama disappears into the muck like Bush and Clinton. there are in fact bigger priorities right now
And
3. That it is reasonable Americans should be concerned about 2% of the total American population funding nearly two-thirds of Democratic leadership and around one third of Republican leadership–in a de facto two-party system. And, considering
the USA is the only superpower, the rest of the world should be concerned too.
Small donorship was a big part of Ron Paul's campaign, as it was
Obama's. People give what they can, and will increasingly do more
in this vein, thanks to the power of the internet and the decreasing cost of computers and internet service, the rival to the
controlled access to factual information represented by traditional media.
If a begger gives you a dime, and a fatcat gives you much more,
who has given you more?
And that's not mentioning how the fatcat grew his moneybags.
Rabinowitz, presumably a Jewish Zionist, and with a history of fearing “conspiracy theories” about Jews, denies that Jewish Zionist Emanuel is an agent of Israel. Big surprise there. I don’t think Rabinowitz is as fearful of conspiracy theories about Jews as much as he is fearful that gentiles will figure out that many of them aren’t “theories” at all, and are actually “conspiracy facts.”
Right wing Zionists are starting to worry lest the "dumb goy" start to notice the enormous Jewish overrepresentation in the hugely corrupt financial industry that has brought the US economy to its knees and helped decimate the middle class.
One of our local temples is sponsoring a conference ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.
I'm sure this will the first of many.
Bill Clinton, upon being told the obvious, said, "You mean my election hangs on who controls the Federal Reserve and a handful of Wall Street traders?"
If Americans don't get the picture now, they never will, which means
they will simply be milked to oblivion.
Average Americans need to get over their guilt over what no other people have ever been asked to shoulder with so little historical reason.
Without the notion of Anti-Semitism (and current campaign finance law) , where would the USA be?
Average Americans need to see the bible is no recipe, and campaign finance law is equally the problem.
The average American sense of fairness and honesty, Christian ethics, not the Religion, must be cultivated. The sense of the Other is Jewish. It is what defines Jew, more than any other group of people. David Duke is a mirror, in the final analysis.
"He said that Jewish giving to Democrats was so high that if anyone did a study of it, it would fuel conspiracy theories. Maybe it would just fuel journalism, and democracy."
Please do the study. At least the world will know.
link to truthdig.com
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It is no longer our economy but our democracy that is in peril. Financial collapses lead to political extremism. The rage bubbling up from our impoverished and disenfranchised working class, glimpsed at John McCain rallies, presages a looming and dangerous right-wing backlash.
there is a hard rain a coming for the ubermenshen.