Another county heard from. Rahm Emanuel's father, who was in the terrorist organization the Irgun, talking to the Israeli press:
In an interview with Ma'ariv, Emanuel's father, Dr. Benjamin
Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son's appointment would be good
for Israel. "Obviously he will influence the president to be
pro-Israel," he was quoted as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he,
an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House."
The Ma'ariv article also quoted Dr. Emanuel as saying
that his son spends most summers visiting in Tel Aviv, and that he
speaks Hebrew, but not fluently.
Gosh, why was I worried?
For all I know Phil Weiss's father was a good man, a good Jew. And he produced a son who roots for Hamas and takes pleasure in the deaths of other Jews. And who has a blog with a heavy neo-nazi readership. So what's the point.
Honest question:
Is or is not Rahm Emanuel an Israeli citizen, and what was the nature of his service within the IDF?
The following two stories from Israeli news outlets suggest he is Israeli and his service in the IDF was the normal service that any Israeli would undergo:
From Ynet:
link to ynetnews.com
And from Haaretz:
link to haaretz.com
Then there is the following story from a Jewish American publication that denies that he is an Israeli citizen:
link to ujc.org
The last story minimizes his experience in the IDF, implying he was a simply volunteer,as if he were a volunteer orderly in a hospital, (but I suppose one where the orderlies help to kill the patients).
So which should we believe? If we are to believe the Jewish American publication, I am Antisemitic for even thinking that he might be an Israeli citizen, but the two Israeli publications describe him as precisely that. It gets peculiarer and peculiarer.
Wish this could be brought up in the MS press, but I suppose, since our press is pretty much like Pravda, this will only ciriculate around in the blogosphere and then die away.
Right, Sword, and the 'pro-Israel' web sites don't attract extremist readers who spout hateful, ignorant and baseless racism against Palestinians and Arabs. Only we don't have a term like 'neo-Nazi' to describe that kind of ugly conduct. Keep telling yourself the world is a simple place, where one side is pure good and the other evil incarnate.
Phil, I know you generally don't read these, but I saw this coming: Obama probably, in his heart, still understands the plight of the Palestinian people. But he's decided that it just doesn't matter to him enough to risk his political career. Back in his CHicago days, there was room for him to be open-minded on the subject. But since he went national, the transition has been obvious. You (and many, many others) just haven't wanted to see it. But you can't ignore it now.
SOG:
I know you know the answer to my question. Why don't you open up a little and tell us what Emanuel's status is with regard to Israel. Is he a national or not? Just to reassure you: I would have the same questions if I suspected Rahm had Chinese citizenship or French citizenship and had served in those country's militaries.
So tell us what you think about the dispute between Israeli and American publications on this point?
Swog of Blubberin', I think Rahm's dad is still alive and well.
According to this puff piece in RollingStone, Emamuel acts like a thug straight out the Lansky-Bronfman-Murder Inc. Jewish mafia:
The Enforcer:
"Friends and enemies agree that the key to Emanuel's success is his legendary intensity. There's the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him. There's the story about how his right middle finger was blown off by a Syrian tank when he was in the Israeli army. And there's the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."
Of the three stories, only the second is a myth…
Emanuel got his political education working as a fund-raiser for Mayor Richard Daley's re-election campaign in Chicago, where he learned how to twist arms and knock heads. Donors were used to giving $5,000 — but Daley needed more. "Rahm took it up a notch," Daley's brother William recalled several years ago. "He told many of them they easily had the ability to give twenty-five grand." When contributors didn't pony up, Emanuel would tell them he was embarrassed that they'd offered so little and hang up on them. The shocked donor would usually call back and sheepishly comply. In thirteen weeks, the thirty-year-old raised $7 million — an unprecedented sum at the time. His fund-raising skills eventually earned him a job in the Clinton campaign.
This year, Emanuel's fund-raising for congressional candidates has been no less impressive. Through September, the DCCC had raised a record-breaking $32 million, much of it slated to support the most vulnerable Democrats — those elected in Republican-leaning districts or looking to challenge Republican incumbents. Unlike past DCCC chairmen, who simply dispersed money without demanding anything in return, Emanuel approaches the job with the sensibility of a Mob bookie. He forces candidates in the most competitive races who receive money to sign what he calls a "Memo of Understanding," delineating exactly how many fund-raising phone calls and appearances they will make in exchange for the committee's support. To seal the pact, Emanuel then signs the memo himself. "I want to make sure everybody is doing everything they're supposed to be doing," he says."
So do you think the author of the article,Joshua Green, is antisemite spreading new blood libels?
Kind Regards,
Queue
A good Jew would be happy and content with the UN mandated 1947 borders of Israel. Rep. Emanuel's past should be investigated, and if he ever carried a weapon outside of Israel's legal borders, he should be prosecuted by the same laws that sent John Walker Lindh to prison for twenty years.
The progressive Demo in my CD (NY 13) was trashed by the rightwind Demo machine pol who got a million or so from the DCCC to spend in the primary. So Rahm and the DLC not only get to choose which candidates to support but they get to choose who they will be. Congress is often seen as gutless, but in fact they are bought and payed for by the same people who own the Repus.
My main hope for Obama is that he will do for the Demos what Bush did for the Repus. Only when the illusion of choice is finally discredited will we have the possibility of popular representation.
Paul, I grew up in Queens but I know your area, It's about has conservative as your going to find in nyc. What makes you think that a left wing candidate would win there.
Not that I expect contrition from Mr. Weiss, but he's reading the statement wrong.
"Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," he was quoted as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House."
In other words, he will be pro-Israel, after all, he's a Jew not an Arab. And of course he'll influence the president, he's going to be chief of staff, not cleaning the white house floors.
DB, I prefer to read the statement as it was said and subsequently written, not as you choose to rearrange it. Thank you.
Rahm Emanuel is a combination between a common street thug, a psychotic businessman, and a Jewish Bolshevik. He's far more loyal to Israel than he is to America, and the fact that he rushed out to volunteer for Israel instead of America during Gulf War I proves it. Emanuel will act as an agent of Israel in the White House (again) during the Obama administration, and his own father just confirmed it. The purpose of Obama making Emanuel his first appointment, and to such an influential position, was to send a comforting message to the corrupt Establishment and a disillusioning message to critics of Zionism and Judeofascism: "Business as usual." There will never be movement in the Democratic Party on this issue. The Jewish Zionists have their hooks way too deep into the party. Anyone of conscience will immediately leave the party to the murdering Bolshevik and Zionist thugs.
I saw a post earlier this evening that said he is a dual national. He is an Israeli because he was born of Israeli parents. I think he is a US citizen because he was born in the US.
My God Phil, you are a paranoid idiot! As DB said, you misread the (rather simple) statement by Emanuel pere in your own nebbishy way.
With analysis like that it's no wonder you're such a successful journalist.
Well Obama is not off to a good start is he?
My eleventh hour decision not to vote for him and do a write in for Nader after I saw Obama's possible appointees list might be something to console myself with as time goes on.
Ques.
What will make the American public madder than they ever were with Geo Bush?
Ans.
Obama not coming thru on his promises of change with a capital C and pdq.
I can see us in a serious brew of trouble, divided even more than ever…jews & Israel, blacks & Obama, rednecks & Sarah Palin, economic woes & no quick turnaround, far left progesssives screaming in disappointment over the real Obama …yep we could still have that revolution.
Emanuel is an Israeli and his father is a filthy racist. Maybe we should give immigrants a racism test before we admit them to the US.
Wow, you guys really confuse me. For months Phil has been regaling us with stories about how so many Jews are going to support Obama. So he gets 80% of the Jewish vote. So he appoints Jews to high positions in his administration (I don't know if this is directly because of some desire to "repay" the Jews for his support, but it certainly doesn't hurt) and now Phil is complaining. Phil somehow thought that every Jews who supports Obama was somehow automatically going to change his identity in order to help Phil out of his Jewish angst, but I repeatedly said here that that wasn't going to happen.
You just can't please some people!
Gideon, I'm with you. I supported Obama becaue I can abide the evil of our plutocracy no longer but the fact that he's been so appreciated and lusted after by "people" of the likes of Kapo Weiss have made me feel quite torn about that support.
Kapo, Kapo, Kapo! Blood Libel! Anti-Semite! Self-Hating Jew!
bar_kochba132 ignores the salient points as usual. It's the only way he can continue to call the posters here "anti-semitic".
It's the only way he can continue to rationalize his existence as one of the "chosen people". What does he ignore?
That Jews, like other ethnic groups, are composed of a plethora of different folks with differing opinions, even concerning the "safe haven", Israel.
Hey!! bar_kochba!!! Phil Weiss doesn't mind if Obama appoints Jews to high positions in his administration. The thing that bothers Phil, and many of the posters on this blog, is that the Jews that he appoints are super-Zionists who believe that Israel can do no wrong and Arabs are less than human. Kind of like your opinions. Unfortunately, unlike you, they have not yet made aliyah. Move up Rahm, Witty, SOG.
PM
The whole thing about being pro-Israeli or not is a landmine. What does it mean? Does it mean we encourage the state to prolong this situation for another 60 years, emitting platitudes about peace? Or does it mean we encourage the state to listen to many of its own electors and resolve the issue with the Palestinians? Why should another generation be condemned to policing the occupied territories and shelling Gaza when there are alternatives? Pro-Israelis should curb the belligerence of their American cousins.
Outsider. I had huge problems with the term pro-Israel initially for exactly the same reason as you.
But there is definitively a huge mental support of multiple wars against "the Arab world" from something called "pro-Israel" circles. With the peak of pro-Iraq-war support in Israel and many Jewish citizens and Israelis no matter what their expertise parading as ME experts. Or experts on the "Arab mind".
For quite some time the prospect of seeing huge armies march against the Arab world, seemed to fill these ideological armies with a sense of delight.
I mainly watched the central neocons and the ideological foot soldiers on the net and with growing surprise a couple of fellow citizen, even one survivor, that suddenly seemed to have turned into raging war drummers even racists. He told us his aesthetic feeling are threatened by headscarf wearing women here in the street of Cologne and campaigned against a mosque here in Cologne: Ralph Giordano Stop the buílding of the mosque. Admittedly I stared at these pages in utter disbelieve.
The term is misleading and I questioned it the first time I heard it. The phenomenon though could be watched by everybody who cared.
LeaNder, can we assume Ralph Giordano is Jewish?
I hate all jews in america
I know Mr. Rahm Emanuel should not be held responsible for the remarks made by his terrorist and racist father and I’m also aware of the benevolent work that Mr. Rahm did in the Peace Process but we must not forget that Mr. Rahm was raised a Zionist who, at least when he was young, harbored hatred for ALL Arabs and Muslims. Has Mr. Rahm changed? He must prove that to us before we can entirely forget his heinous past.