Richard Silverstein, picking up on Jeffrey Goldberg's teaching, re Rahm Emanuel.
Memo to media: This is NOT a story. Repeat, NOT a story. Yours truly, The Israel Lobby.
P.S. This guy also: has been in Congress less than six years and basically runs the Democratic congressional warchest. No pischer, as we say in Greek.
the link to the Silverstein article is wrong (one too many "http"s in it). Should be:
link to richardsilverstein.com
Good site you have here
Goldberg: "“the guy who will be running the White House is essentially an Israeli…Emanuel is emotionally tied to Israel in ways that very few politicians are, and is unyielding on Israel’s right to exist."
Silverstein: "I’ve never been taken with the dual loyalty issues that occupy Phil Weiss. But Goldberg has just backed into this one with his eyes wide open…And here now I’ve been trying to persuade my readers that regardless of Emanuel’s views he’s going to be subordinate to Obama’s views on Israel even if they might disagree with his own. Goldberg comes along and blows my claim right out of the water. Screw chain of command, Emanuel friggin’ OWNS the White House. My God, what a train wreck Goldberg is."
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Silverstein isn't upset that Emanuel is going to act as an Israeli agent inside the White House. He's upset that Goldberg spilled the beans, and thus undermined his ability to deceive his own readers about that fact.
This just goes to show, Jewish Zionists, no matter how liberal, simply can't be trusted to put America's strategic interests before the strategic interests of Zionism. They're either maneuvering on behalf of Israel, or maneuvering to cover up the fact that they're maneuvering for Israel. Zionism is their true ideology and driving foce.
ED POSTED: "He's upset that Goldberg spilled the beans, and thus undermined his ability to deceive his own readers about that fact."
I'M SORRY, BUT YOU ARE JUST PLAIN WRONG ABOUT RICHARD SILVERSTEIN! HE IS LIKE WEISS, HABER, ROSENBERG AND LERNER. THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE!!!!!
DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS – JD
November 10, 2008 — More on Emanuel’s shady past with the Clinton administration
WMR (Wayn Madsen Review) has learned from U.S. intelligence sources additional details of prospective White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s ties with the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad. We have also learned that President-elect Barack Obama is fully aware of the problems with Emanuel’s past security woes within the Clinton administration, but that the President-elect faced the problem of delivering on a few political IOUs he handed out during the campaign.
WMR has learned that Emanuel will be under a virtual probationary period as Chief of Staff and that if there is one whiff from the FBI or another law enforcement or intelligence agency that he is dealing with foreign intelligence agents, Obama will cut him loose as soon as practicable.
Emanuel has, according to our sources, been the subject of FBI counter-intelligence surveillance for quite some time. FBI surveillance teams have seen Emanuel enter Washington, DC and Chicago synagogues at the same time known Mossad agents assigned to the Israeli embassy in Washington and the Israeli Consulate General in Chicago entered the facilities. FBI regulations prevented the surveillance teams from pursuing the parties into the places of worship.
WMR has also learned that during Emanuel’s stint at the White House under President Clinton, Mossad became increasingly concerned that the identity of their top agent, an American who served in a high position in the Reagan administration and code-named “Mega,” would be exposed by the FBI’s counter-intelligence division. For that reason, the Mossad leaked information on two top Russian spies in the CIA and FBI, Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, respectively, in order to “cool the trail” leading to Mega. WMR has learned that Hanssen also spied for Mossad at the same time he was spying for the Russians and that this information was known to Emanuel. WMR has learned that the FBI established that there was a relationship between Hanssen, a Chicago native whose father was a Chicago police officer, and Emanuel, also a native of Chicago.
The Mossad decided to “trade out” Hanssen to the FBI’s counter-intelligence division in order to keep the bureau pre-occupied trying to ferret out a mole within their own ranks and take the heat off Emanuel and the Clinton White House over the knowledge that Israeli intelligence had penetrated White House communications and this fact was related by Clinton to White House intern Monica Lewinsky during a phone conversation. Hanssen was convicted of espionage after he was pressured into not going ahead with a jury trial. Hanssen was warned that his wife would be denied his FBI pension if he insisted on a full jury trial. He is serving a life sentence in solitary confinement at the Federal Supermax Prison in Colorado.
Ames was convicted of espionage in 1994 and Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001 in Vienna, Virginia, just a few weeks after George W. Bush took over the White House from Clinton.
What ultimately led to Emanuel’s dismissal in 1998 from the Clinton White House was FBI intelligence that linked him to sabotaging Clinton administration initiatives to hammer out diplomatic deals between Morocco and the Western Sahara independence front POLISARIO, as well as diplomatic initiatives to ease tensions between Washington and the Palestinian Authority and Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq. Emanuel’s sabotaging of the Clinton initiatives led FBI Assistant Director John P. O’Neill to conduct an investigation of the U.S. mission to the United Nations since it was being used as a platform by Emanuel and his Mossad friends to sabotage the Clinton administration initiatives. Bill Richardson served as U.S. ambassador to the UN during this time frame and it was Richardson who was asked to find a job for Lewinsky at the mission after her name and relationship with Clinton became known to federal investigators working for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.
On January 23, 1998, CNN reported: “Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr has issued subpoenas for documents to U.S. Ambassador Bill Richardson and the entire U.S. mission, according to Richardson’s chief of staff, Rebecca Cooper. Cooper said, ‘The subpoenas are for documents only at this point, for all details pertaining to Monica’ Lewinsky. Cooper said Richardson and the staff ‘plan to comply fully.’ Richardson’s office offered Monica Lewinsky a job as junior assistant doing public outreach and cabinet agency assignments. She would have worked for the ambassador’s chief of staff in the New York office. Her job would have included working with grass-roots organizations across the country, like college model U.N.s and associations and other groups with interest in the work of the United Nations.”
It was the FBI that revealed Emanuel’s intelligence work on behalf of the Mossad to President Clinton. Clinton then ordered Emanuel dismissed from the White House staff. Ironically, it was then-Chief of Staff John Podesta who helped to clean house. Podesta is now in charge of Obama’s transition team.
There is also a belief by some observers in Washington that Emanuel is behind the pressure being exerted on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to keep Connecticut Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman within the Democratic caucus by letting him keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Reid favors tossing Lieberman off as Chairman because the former Democratic Senator supported Republican presidential candidate John McCain, spoke at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, and ran against the Democratic Senate candidate in Connecticut Ned Lamont. Sources in Washington also believe that Emanuel is behind efforts to challenge the House chairmanships of Michigan Representatives John Dingell and John Conyers of the Commerce and Energy and Judiciary Committees, respectively. Conyers and Dingell represent the largest Arab-American congressional districts in the United States.
The Hamlet of Seattle really needs to have Samir Kuntar come and baby sit his kids. That would be "progressive".
did anyone listen to the interview with goldburg where he said emmanuel was the one who would run the white house?
i'm curious if he is overstating the case. i listened to about half of it and i didn't hear anything close.
I don't doubt Silverstein is better than most Jewish Zionists in terms of his objectivity and desired approach to the I-P issue. But he still seeks to deny that dual loyalty is inherent in Jewish American Zionism. It is repression of this self-evident reality that got us where we're at today. Had Jewish American Zionists been called out as dual loyalists thirty, forty years ago, the situation would never have deteriorated so far. But they were coddled and indulged to the point that they've now taken over the asylum.
Peters, there's a transcript at the link above. The comment is in Golberg's (not Goldburg) first paragraph.
thank you cha. though i did not find a transcript at richard silverstein's blog, which is the link above.
I think you are overplaying Rahm's degree of influence on Obama. He is the Chief of Staff to Obama, and mainly deals with logistical and tactical issues re: the Pressident, not strategic.
Name me one Chief of Staff who have had any influence at all re: US's stance re:Israel/Palestine. They simply don't and as such the debate re: Rahm is a bit stupid.
The important roles to look out for will Obama's National Security Advisors, Secretary of State, Advisors to Secretary of State, Advisors on Near East Affairs as well as who will be the Advisors to Biden.
Any debate about Obama's direction re: Israel/Palestine is frankly a bit premature.
You are pioneers. Don't stop now.
great news guys but it's sad that it rewards the trolls by slowing down the discussion.