Here is Rahm Emanuel sounding neocon themes of regime change and Israel-first, right after the Lebanon war started in 2006. In this speech on the House floor, he justifies Israeli militarism:
in Lebanon have militias affiliated with those governments. So those
are democracies. [obviously sarcastic] They are not truly democracies, they are totalitarian entities with militias and terrorists acting as democracies.
As we talk about bringing democracy to the Mideast, understand that
that button should be paused for a second and understand the
consequences here. That what has happened is Saudi Arabia, most
importantly, Egypt and Jordan, have brought peace and have come to a
peace agreement with Israel. Those who have violated that peace are,
quote-unquote, democracies, as we spread democracy in the Mideast.
Understand what that means here, and the consequences of what has
happened here, is that you cannot allow this violation of
internationally recognized borders, three soldiers to be seized, and
think there will be no act of war. That is what has broadened, and yes,
many of its citizens will be hurt.
I want to see an end to the violence that is engulfing Israel and
Lebanon, but it will not end this violence at the ballot box. It will
only end with the emergence of true partners who recognize the
importance of peace and the end of terrorist regimes founded on hate.
Comment. True partners: This is all you need to know about Israel/Palestine. On the basis of this test of humanhood, the Palestinian right to self-determination has been nullified by American Jews for 60 years (with scant but yes noble demurral), even as bloodstained Pakistan, India, and Kosovo were granted their godd–n states without any such test. And how can Israel call itself a democracy when 4 million Arabs have lesser or no representation. This is a source of great rage across the Arab world, and Emanuel's likely next boss knows that. And as Ian Lustick has shown, Israel's militarism has helped to inflame the whole region in militarism.
Rahm Emanuel
Son of a terrorist
Left USA during its 1991 War to join Israel's fight.
Sure hope Obama consults with Rev Wright about this guy
behind close doors.
To top off his treason, he made his dough as an investment banker.
The chickens have a long way to go to come home to roost.
And, in the last few days Hezbollah publicly announced that even if Lebanon retrieves the Shabaa Farms, that it still considers Israel as occupying 7 Lebanese towns, and will continue its "resistance", until "Greater Lebanon" (my words) is restored.
And, Hamas fired 34 Qassams
How does war stop?
How does one convince a population that suppressing Palestinians is not necessary, that there is NO rationalization for it.
I didn't get your point in the last paragraph.
You are starting write as clearly as myself.
Barack Obama wins 77 percent of Jewish vote, exit polls show
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1034574.html
Despite the tense rift between Republican and Democratic Jews over the course of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, exit polls on Tuesday showed that Barack Obama received about 77 percent of the Jewish vote.
These numbers were higher even than the 2004 election, when Democratic candidate John Kerry received 74 percent of the Jewish vote. Al Gore received the highest percentage of Jewish votes in 2000, with 79 percent.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, executive director of the J Street lobby group on Tuesday called Obama's victory a sign that the campaign waged against him by Republican Jews comprised "baseless smears."
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"American Jews resoundingly rejected the two-year, multi-million dollar campaign of baseless smears and fear waged against him by the right wing of our community," he said. "Surrogates and right-wing political operatives in our community stopped at nothing in their efforts to sway Jewish voters against Obama."
"We can only hope that these results put to rest for good the myth that fear and smear campaigns – particularly around Israel – can be an effective political weapon in the Jewish communit," he added.
A Gallup poll released in late October showed Jewish voters favored Barack Obama over John McCain by more than 3 to 1, with 74% saying they would vote for Obama over 22% for McCain.
The poll, which interviewed over 650 Jewish registered voters each month since June, showed American Jews growing increasingly comfortable with Obama since July, when the Illinois Senator tied up the Democratic Party nomination.
The poll showed support for McCain among Jews stood at a high of 34% in June, before beginning its downward turn in July after Obama's nomination.
I didn't get your point in the last paragraph.
That's because you run from cogent and more in mental mush.
What part of this point–"…a source of great rage across the Arab world,… Israel's militarism has helped to inflame the whole region in militarism"–is too complex for you to get, Richard?
Maybe you should follow Phil's link and read it, and then respond?
Rahm Emanuel is clearly a right-wing totalitarian in his Jewish Zionist identity and a left-wing totalitarian in the approach he wants the US government to take in the Mideast. He cites three totalitarian countries (all heavily dependent on the corrupt US establishment to finance or enable their ongoing, Soviet-like suppression of their own people by their “elites”) as examples of how the Mideast should be run: “what has happened is Saudi Arabia, most importantly, Egypt and Jordan, have brought peace and have come to a peace agreement with Israel”
A few million Jews wants to steal land, persecute and ethnically cleanse non-Jews, institute racialism into their laws, repeatedly bomb their non-Jewish neighbors, and generally behave like a psychopaths, the Muslim and Arab world consequently responds with reactionary anger, and Rahm Emanuel thinks the hundreds of millions of Muslims and Arabs are the ones with the problem. Therefore, the US needs to pursue a policy of putting them all under the totalitarian jackboot as they are in the countries he cites as having “brought peace.”
What is the difference between left-wing Jewish Zionists like Rahm Emanuel and Thomas Friedman and “conservative” Jewish Zionists like Richard Perle and Doug Feith? Zilch. They all want the same totalitarian, warmongering policy. And they all think the world should be put in a totalitarian straight jacket so a relative handful of nut case Jews can perpetually get away with their thieving, lying, racist chicanery into perpetuity.
BACK to basics, Emanuel is a racist.
German posters, we can not wait for your policed views.
MM,
I understood a couple phrases in the paragraph, but not much more than that.
"Emanuel is a racist"?
Is he? In what honest respect that is applied consistently, including to you and others?
There's this mythological character, whose name escapes me, who would tell these lies so outrageous that anyone who heard them would go mad.
Anybody know his/her name?
Reminds me of Emanuel et al. Their lies are meant to induce psychosis.
You can't dicker with them or appease them.
Stalin?
Mr. Rahm referring to innocent civilians in Lebanon says this: "… and yes, many of its citizens will be hurt."
This is chilling stuff…proportionality does not figure in at all here. It is the justification of the exercise of raw military power over a weaker adversary and civilians be damned.
If this man is Obama's next chief-of-staff we are all down the rabbit hole even faster than we have been over the past eight years.
Baron Munchausen.
As I remember, everytime I heard Rahm Emanuel's name brought up in the past, it was in regards to some new Democratic Vichycrat outrage. If he has his hooks in the new administration, I sadly expect more of the same.
He is one of those with dual citizenship, no?
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All the above comments seem manic, but what seems real is the
fear of Jewish economic and media power,
Obama's choice of Emmanuel for chief of staff is unfortunate. We were hoping that Obama would be for change …change in US policy towards the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
But it sure feels like business as usual