Martin Sieff in the Daily Beast calls Rahm Emanuel a “quasi-neocon-hawk” and points out that his middle name is Israel. This is why I pushed for a low Jewish vote for Obama. He got 78 percent. He didn’t get the…
in that last post with the suggestion that that AIPAC friend of Larry Summers is under some journalistic obligation to declare her religion, Jewish. Yes, too far, bad boy. But I think part of the problem here is that Jewish…
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…
Shmuel Rosner. What is there to say about this? That people of limited imagination, brutalized by unending war, with war as their only option, having urged the Iraq adventure on us, and rationalizing their own religious state with its obnoxious…
Mitchell Bard, former AIPAC op, in his latest communique from the center of the earth (or Chevy Chase, MD, the quaking magmatic kishkes of the lobby): [With Obama’s victory] State Department Arabists see a chance to be unchained after eight…
Yesterday people got to write me off as “far left.” Today I find that I’m “on the left.” Tomorrow I might be sitting in your lap, America… I shouldn’t be cute. A long time ago I read some theory of…
Here is Rahm Emanuel sounding neocon themes of regime change and Israel-first, right after the Lebanon war started in 2006. In this speech on the House floor, he justifies Israeli militarism: The so-called democratically elected governments on the West Bank…
The news says Rahm Emanuel is gonna be chief of staff. Here is Congressman Rahm Emanuel, the likely gatekeeper to Obama, blaming the Palestinians for the violence in Israel/Palestine in ’07–Emanuel saying that a cycle of violence that has wracked…