Comments on: Emanuel’s Middle Name Is Israel. And I Guess So Is Obama’s…

By: JOHN DICKERSON

JOHN DICKERSON — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

GREAT INTERVIEW:

Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter
November 5th, 2008

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses how the Maliki government surprised everyone by aggressively pressing for a U.S. withdrawal, the possible political landscape in a post-U.S. controlled Iraq, the delay of a Status of Forces Agreement, the difficulty of maintaining a bankrupt empire, the possibility that Obama’s bellicose statements about Iran’s nuclear program are due to ignorance rather than hawkishness, updates on the infamous stolen laptop and four Iranian peace offerings rejected by the U.S government.

MP3(32:23)- http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/05/gareth-porter-43/

By: tomwhite

tomwhite — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Phil:
I developed a bit of hope based on your claim of the magic of Obamaguity (or was it Obamambiguity) that our boy could somehow outsmart the Big Money Jews and mad Israel-firsters. But already my faith is being tested. If we get Rahm Emmanuel and Larry Summers in quick succession, it would certainly look like O has concluded brains and skill are Jewish monopolies. (WHere does that leave him?) That acceptance speech was superb theater, but is the man all front and theater and no principle? If so that would sure make him A Man For Our Age, would it not? Tom White, Odessa, TX

By: cogit8

cogit8 — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Phil,

Welcome to the club.

By: bar_kochba132

bar_kochba132 — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Phil, you should be glad that Emanuel's middle name is Israel. In Nazi Germany, Jews who tried to "hide" behind non-Jewish names were forced to add "Israel" as an official name of theirs on their documents. Phil-maybe you might come to consider that the US should do the same, that way you can "keep an eye" on all the Jews.

Richard-why do you keep trying to straighten out the people in this antisemitic blog?

By: Dan Kelly (higginslads)

Dan Kelly (higginslads) — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

SEMITE: 1 a: a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs

b: a descendant of these peoples

2: a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Funny how being against the persecution of one ethnic-religious group by another is now called "anti-semitic" -- if only by people who lack the honesty and integrity to examine their own views critically.

By: sin nombre

sin nombre — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

bar_kochba 132 wrote:

"Richard-why do you keep trying to straighten out the people in this antisemitic blog?"

bar_kochba, you post here, you aren't antisemitic, and I found your reminder about the Nazi's forcing jews to take the name "Israel" quite moving in terms of very possibly showing, admirably as all get out, why Rahm Emanuel's father voluntarily bestowed that name upon his son. Nothing wrong with it in any event, but even more poignant and wonderfully prideful if that's what he had in mind, which I now suspect he did to his enormous credit.

So do you want me to stop reading you too?

The solution to wrong-headed speech isn't less speech, it's more. And Phil published you with your great somber point, and even included your needless and undoubtedly hurtful slam against him. And he'll undoubtedly continue to welcome your further posts. Deep down, really, you know that's as fair as fair can be, and what more can you ask for from any man? Indeed how many men do you even know who are that fair?

Have some faith in people's reason; do you really believe something built on anything else is sustainable?

By: Avi Marranazo

Avi Marranazo — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

bar_kochba: interesting irrelevant trivia regarding Nazi Germany. Of more importance to America and the real question is whether Phil is right. If you're analyzing the facts without the lens of Jewish moral particularism, the answer is clear.

By: bar_kochba132

bar_kochba132 — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Sin nombre (I think that means "no name"-am I right?) -

It was Phil who pointed out that Israel was Emanuel's middle name. Now, when people called the US's President-elect "B. Hussein Obama", the "progressives" went ballistic. So what is Phil's point in mentioning it? Emanuel doesn't deny he is Jewish.

By: Paul Malfara

Paul Malfara — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I don't care if Rahm Emmanuel is Jewish. I don't care that his father was a terrorist.
I don't care that when America went to war with Iraq the first time, he volunteered to serve... in Israel. We Americans give people freedom.

The thing that bothers me is that the man that I described above is going to be the Chief of Staff of the American President.

Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!