Disturbed by reports that Obama wants to impose a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine, rightwing Israeli politician Ya'acov Katz sent Obama c-o-s Rahm Emanuel a letter last week to remind him of his Jewish and Israeli origins. (Emanuel was born here but his father was in the terrorist liberation army, the Irgun. Emanuel took a leave from political duties here back in '91 to serve as a civilian volunteer, wearing an Israeli uniform, at an Israeli military base during the Gulf War.)
The letter even did a little snakehandling, per the JPost:
"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" Katz wrote, quoting from the Book of Esther (4:14).
How dare he! Can you imagine the uproar if the head of Kenya wrote a letter to Obama reminding him of who he father was and his father's Muslim roots?
This is an effing outrage!
… and mr Rahm, don't forget to forward this letter to ten other people within the next week or something bad will happen to you in the near future.
How very Wittyesque.
I am glad at least his mother's family will be all right…..
Suspicion? A person has to be a compete idiot to only suspect that Jews in positions of power favor Jewish and Isreali interests over the interests of average Americans.
What a brilliant Zionist ploy by Katz: reminding Emanuel, and the world, how much Zionist blood Emanuel already has on his hands.
These naive and childish Zionist Democrat politicians with their illusions of being able to have their diaspora liberalism and their hard-right Zionism too have no idea what they've gotten themselves into. You don't get half way into bed with the mob. For every one of them from now on, its either all-out for Zionism, or the axe comes down from Israel. How much does the Israeli government have on Emanuel? How much does it have on all of these Zionist-corrupted Washington politicos? Wiretaps? Photos? Communications transcripts?
These idiots have been playing footsy with the devil for years, and they thought there would be no repercussions?
RE: "…Jews in positions of power favor Jewish and Isreali interest…"
MY COMMENT: Actually, most of the significant offenders are not Jewish. For example: Lawrence (Larry) Franklin
… and Mr Rahm, don't forget to forward this letter to ten other people within the next week or something bad will happen to you in the near future.
Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | April 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM
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"A person has to be a compete idiot…" to continually focus on "…Jews in positions of power." You re-frame this website each time you post a comment like the one at 12:12pm, Todd. IMO there's a good possibility that's your purpose in posting here.
Well, Margaret, a person would have to be an idiot to only suspect that Jews in positions of power feel a duty to put Israel's interests first. Look at the title of the thread, sweetheart!
While Phil presents a well developed case for his statements regarding the power of Jewish lobby groups, your emphasis seems to focus attention on Jewish power groups in such a manner as to indicate that power groups representing Jewish interests are different from other such lobby activity, although you don't present any reason for your focus on specifically Jewish lobbying. My impression from what you say is that you don't consider other lobby groups to be equally of concern. Perhaps it is my perception that is off, yet your statement drew another other comment regarding the larger pool of bad actors beyond specifically Jewish interests.
I agree with Phil's assessment of Jewish lobby groups as powerful in representing Jewish interests, and consider valuable the information he presents to support his thesis. Yet, even given the amount of power wielded by the Likud/Labor lobby in the particularly important arena of foreign policy, I don't get the impression Phil thinks the lobbying problem in the US is limited to Jewish organization. (Perhaps I've missed nuances or previous statements; if Phil has indicated such, I would appreciate my error being pointed out by way of a link to what he said.) Alternatively, if you indicate that you do not consider lobbying to be a problem limited to Jewish interests, I will gladly revise my understanding of your meaning.
Not that I consider you under any obligation to respond further, but I did not want to leave what might be a misunderstanding unaddressed.