I love a high-class soap. Well today I feel like Alistair Cooke on Masterpiece Theater, speaking in his plummy voice: "Our last episode ended with Rahm Emanuel's father Benjamin, who served in the Irgun, a terrorist organization, saying that Rahm would be for Israel in the White House, and he's not an Arab so he won't be cleaning the floors. Remember that viewers? Today's episode…"
Now it's not Alistair talking, but a smart Washington friend writing to me:
Now will Emanuel need to say that he disagrees with his father?
Will he start to receive so many questions he's got to answer? This hit
Democracy Now Wednesday morning as the lead question from Amy Goodman
to Diana Buttu. And now Wednesday evening, Ali Abunimah's op-ed is in
the Washington Times (for Thursday's paper). He spends considerable
time on the quote. We're talking the Washington media market even if
it's not the Washington Post.
Will he start to receive so many questions he's got to answer? This hit
Democracy Now Wednesday morning as the lead question from Amy Goodman
to Diana Buttu. And now Wednesday evening, Ali Abunimah's op-ed is in
the Washington Times (for Thursday's paper). He spends considerable
time on the quote. We're talking the Washington media market even if
it's not the Washington Post.
The Washington Times apparently hates the incoming Obama
administration more than it loves an expansionist Israel. I wonder,
however, how many centrist or left-leaning papers would have run this. Here's the great Amy Goodman:
administration more than it loves an expansionist Israel. I wonder,
however, how many centrist or left-leaning papers would have run this. Here's the great Amy Goodman:
We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Diana Buttu, I wanted to start with you on Rahm Emanuel’s father’s comment, its significance.
DIANA BUTTU: It
is. It’s a very significant comment, not just because it’s coming from
his father, but the fact that Rahm Emanuel himself has not backed down
from this comment. He hasn’t made any statements separating himself or
distancing himself from his father’s comments. And his voting record in
the past in Congress leaves a great number of Palestinians and people
who are concerned about Israel ’s occupation of Palestine —leaves a
number of us concerned.
is. It’s a very significant comment, not just because it’s coming from
his father, but the fact that Rahm Emanuel himself has not backed down
from this comment. He hasn’t made any statements separating himself or
distancing himself from his father’s comments. And his voting record in
the past in Congress leaves a great number of Palestinians and people
who are concerned about Israel ’s occupation of Palestine —leaves a
number of us concerned.
The feline has departed the gunnysack!
I think that attempting to micro-manage Obama's staffing will backfire on the left.
Rather than get Obama's ear, leftists will then lose his ear.
I doubt that much will happen unless Emanuel engineers something really stupid in the region, and then it will be too late. Obama got a free pass on his comments about small town whites and his association with Jeremiah Wright, so I see no reason that Emanuel will have to answer for much. Some people skate and others don't. That's the way things are at the moment.
"Some people skate and others don't."
Yeah, that's called the Jewish "pass." It's a virus that originated on the Left and has made its way into the American mainstream, just like Zionism. Other special interests are now all demanding their own passes, too. It's why there's no accountability in America anymore.
If the media weren't so liberal, and Rahm Emanuel wasn't Jewish, they'd be having a field day with this guy, who is clearly a nut case and has a documented rap sheet of bizarre, emotional outbursts and mafia-don like behavior a mile long. Instead, they just say he’s “tough” and “knows how to get things done.” He sure does — for Israel and his other corrupt, entrenched Washington allies. But never for America.
Yes, at the moment–Iran and/or the economic decline will bring subject background tidbits, tactical mistakes, freudian slips, deep cover beliefs and visions into play, if anything does.
I have been irritated that Benjamin Emanuel was ever let in the USA since I heard stories about his days in the Irgun when I lived in Chicago in the early 80s.
If the Office of Special Investigations were not almost completely Jewish, Benjamin would have been investigated and probably deported years ago.
See Zajanckauskas, Henss, Selective Prosecution and Equal Protection.
It is not a question of Benjamin's racist comments or beliefs, but a fundamental need to demonstrate that US laws apply to Jewish Zionists as much as to non-Jews.
The US is either a Rechtstaat where there is rule of law or a Judenstaat where Jews are privileged.
I thought the part of what Obama got elected was to ignore meaningless associations of his such as those with his ex pastor and Ayers. Shouldn't we apply that same treatment on his Chief of Staff.
Martillo,
YOu were irritated that the member of an organization 60 years ago (and NOT specifically identified in any criminal activity) would be denied entry into the US?
How censorial can you get?
"The US is either a Rechtstaat where there is rule of law or a Judenstaat where Jews are privileged."
Yes, but a preson can be tried in the media as well, and different rules apply to different sets of people. Emanuel will likely skate unless he does something terrible, and then it will be too late. Unless I misunderstand the rules, there is very little reason to believe than much will happen to Emanuel.
The US, like Israel, is today definitely a Judenstaat where Jews are privilege, because there is an entire Jewish Zionist network of perhaps some odd million that sees to it that their fellow Jewish Zionists aren't held accountable, or are treated with kid gloves no matter how onerous or illegal their behavior. This isn't to say that Jewish Zionists can always get away with murder, but often they can. And its only going to get worse unless something is done, as their treatment of the Palestinians demonstrates. When left unchecked, they abuse any advantage to the highest degree possible.
The Irgun was involved in lots of criminal activities as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
I don't see that Jews are ready to forget such crimes as were committed by non-Jews against Jews in a slightly earlier time frame.
Why should the we forget the crimes that Jews have committed against non-Jews either in the Soviet Union or in Palestine?
[It is worthwhile to note that Soviet Communist Ashkenazim also organized mass murders and probably more than one pogrom against Jews. Is it so important that Jews be viewed as pure victims during WW2 that there is as far as I can tell no open discussion of the issue?]
Benjamin Emanuel is much more likely to have been involved in the murder of unarmed women and children than Zajanckauskas or Henss.
There should be an investigation by OSI of Benjamin Emanuel. It is required by the law, which does not give Jews a pass on their war crimes or crimes against humanity even if the Jews at the OSI are obstructing justice by ignoring Jewish crimes.
RICHARD WITTY POSTED: "Martillo,
YOu were irritated that the member of an organization 60 years ago (and NOT specifically identified in any criminal activity) would be denied entry into the US?"
FROM WIKIPEDIA: In the West, Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by The New York Times newspaper,[3][4] and by the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry.[5] Irgun attacks prompted a formal declaration from the World Zionist Congress in 1946, which strongly condemned "the shedding of innocent blood as a means of political warfare".[6]
WITTY IS A COMPLTE IGNORANUS!!!!!!!
I mean't: WITTY IS A COMPLETE IGNORANUS!!!!!!!
WITTY SHOULD BE BANNED FOR HIS ENDLESS STREAM OF LIES!!!!!!!
"If the media weren't so liberal, and Rahm Emanuel wasn't Jewish, they'd be having a field day with this guy, who is clearly a nut case and has a documented rap sheet of bizarre, emotional outbursts and mafia-don like behavior a mile long. Instead, they just say he’s “tough” and “knows how to get things done.” He sure does — for Israel and his other corrupt, entrenched Washington allies. But never for America."
I hear you Ed, but if the media was indeed liberal they would be interested in exposing the truth about Emanuel, rather than burying it.
Because the media in America serves the interests of the ruling class, it is incorrect to identify it as 'liberal'. That Emanuel serves in the Democratic party doesn't mean anything. They are still part of the ruling elite and an objective analysis would demonstrate that the current Democratic party – and just about every other one – is not a left-wing party by any definition.
But I agree with your point – just that I cringe when I hear the "liberal" or "left-wing" media used in that way…
Ed,
I will be happy to let Herzl know that his dream has been realized. BTW, you DO know that using "Juden-" as a prefix rather than the adjectival "jüdische" meant that Herzl was reclaiming Austria's "N-word" of the time? Of course you do. Except I don't think you mean it ironically like Herzl. "The Kike-state" was the colloquial meaning of "Judenstaat" as opposed to "jüdische" or "Staat von der Juden" in Austro-German at the time.
@stevieb: "I hear you Ed, but if the media was indeed liberal they would be interested in exposing the truth about Emanuel, rather than burying it."
Perhaps I should have said the “major liberal media.” But irregardless, the Jewish Zionists are an integral part of the left-liberal coalition that Americans put in the broad category of "liberal" or "progressive." And there's no question that because of Jewish Zionist prominence in the liberal coalition, most major liberal media outlets largely ignore or dismiss Jewish Zionist crimes in the Levant, and they ignore support for and encouragement of those crimes by Jewish Zionists like Emanuel. I'm talking about traditional left-liberal media like the Washington Post, New York Times and network news, but I'm also talking about harder liberal media like, say, Huffington Post and Air America, as well as well-known liberals like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann. (Few would argue that Air America, Huffington Post, Maddow and Olbermann aren’t liberals, and they almost never even touch the issue.)
The fact that Jewish Zionist comprise a large number of pundits, writers, editors, personalities and executives in liberal media is another factor behind liberal media censorship on the issue.
But yes, authentic classic liberals who are against big government and centralization of power would indeed be interested in exposing Emanuel. Problem is, classic liberals have almost nothing in common with what we’ve come to know as liberalism.
I guess your last paragraph makes my point.
And being a 'classic'liberal – I detest the association with the main-stream 'liberal' media such as the NY times and even the Huffington post. But I myself have never considered the big media outlets as on the left -but I see your point.
Eurosabra: Your command of German is far far inferior to mine.
If Herzl had meant kike-state, he would have used the title Juedenstaat.
Juden- is a normal prefix meaning of or pertaining to Jews as in Judenhetze.
Herzl was specifically making the contrast between Rechtstaat, a state where law rules (instead of prejudice or arbitrariness), and Judenstaat, a state where Jews rule or are privileged.
If you can stomach it, Claude Klein's tr. and foreword of Herzl's work into French offers a detailed discussion. He may still be too Zionist for you.
"ein Staat, offentlich-rechtlich gesichert"–which is what Herzl wrote– means nothing to anti-Zionists anyway. You demand that Israel disappear.
Hazony's "Jewish State or State of the Jews?" offers the Zionist argument.
I am of those who argue that Zionism will falter if its only tools are discursive, but you don't like Muskeljudentum anyway.