Obama, Emanuel and Israel »
Posted By hyperbola 1 year, 1 month ago in Political NewsIn the first major appointment of his administration, President-elect Barack Obama has named as his chief of staff Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and Israeli army veteran whose father, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was a member of Menachem Begin's Irgun forces during the Nakba and named his son after "a Lehi combatant who was killed" -- i.e., a member of Yitzhak Shamir's terrorist Stern Gang, responsible for, in addition to other atrocities against Palestinians, the more famous bombing of the King David Hotel and assassination of the UN peace envoy Count Folke Bernadotte.
...Obama repeatedly pledged unconditional allegiance to Israel during his campaign, most memorably in an address to the AIPAC national convention which Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery characterized as "a speech that broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning", and America's electing a black president has always been more easily imagined than any American president's declaring his country's independence from Israeli domination.
...The profound loathing and hatred of the Muslim world toward the United States, which has always had its roots for America's unconditional support for the injustices inflicted and still being inflicted on the Palestinians, can fairly be considered the core of the primary foreign policy and "national security" problems confronting the United States in recent years. Why would Obama, a man of unquested brilliance, have chosen to send such a contemptuous message to the Muslim world with his first major appointment? Why would he wish to disabuse the Muslim world of its hopes (however modest) and slap it across the face at the ealiest opportunity?
A further contemptuous message is widely rumored to be forthcoming -- the naming as "Special Envoy for Middle East Peace" of Dennis Ross, the notorious Israel-Firster who, throughout the 12 years of the Bush the First and Clinton administrations, ensured that American policy toward the Palestinians did not deviate one millimeter from Israeli policy and that no progress toward peace could be made and who has since headed the AIPAC spin-off "think tank", the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...
... it may well be salutary not to waste eight more days (let alone eight more years) playing along and playing the fool while more Palestinian lands are confiscated and more Jewish colonies and Jews-only bypass roads are built on them, clinging to the delusion that the charming Mr. Obama, admirable though he may be in so many other respects, will eventually (if only in a second term, when he no longer has to worry about reelection) see the light and do the right thing. It is long overdue for the Palestinians themselves to seize the initiative, to reset the agenda and to declare a new "only game in town".
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Thinker221 year, 1 month ago
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> It is long overdue for the Palestinians themselves to seize the initiative, to reset the agenda and to declare a new "only game in town".
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I fully agree with this statement. If and when the Palestinians themselves will ceaze the violence and declare their willingness to negotiate a mutually acceptable peace agreement Israel will gladly agree and so will the US under any administration.
The future peace agreement will permanently end war, settlements, occupation, "Jewish-only" roads, etc. and will establish a sovereign Arab Palestinian state where Palestinian Arabs will be able to live in peace and prosperity with not a singly Jew in sight.
Unforunately, Palestinians DO NOT WANT peace, a sovereign Jew-free state and everything else that comes with it.-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Better read the rest of the article thinker. It is advocating a single state in all of Palestine with equal rights for all of the population independent of ethnic descent or religion. You are against those very basic pillars of american democracy? Are you an american?
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Thinker221 year, 1 month ago
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> ..Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and Israeli army veteran whose father, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was a member of Menachem Begin's Irgun forces...
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Congressman Rahm Emanuel is an AMERICAN citizen who was born in the US. He DID NOT serve in the Israeli Army.
On the other hand, California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger was both in Austria, is an Austrian army veteran and a son of a Nazi party member. Do you have a problem with that?-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Sorry thinker, even emanuel says you are wrong.
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It really is time to get ALL the zionist terrorists and traitors out of our government.
Rahm Emanuel's Father Was in Jewish Terrorist Organization
... Emanuel's father was apparently in the Irgun, the Zionist movement that used terrorist methods to blow up the King David Hotel in '46 and expel all the Palestinians from Jaffa, and that played a role in the massacre at Deir Yassin. ..
...Alas, the Israeli narrative of national liberation (the Nakba, as Palestinians will tell you) is intertwined with the highest reaches of American politics. Douglas Feith's father was in Betar, the youth movement founded by Ze'ev Jabotinksy, the expansionist Zionist....
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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The Israeli Who Will Run the Obama White House
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"Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff" is the headline of a November 6 article in Ha'aretz, the Israeli newspaper. The Israeli editors at Ha'aretz proudly proclaim that Obama's first pick was "Israeli Rahm Emanuel" to run the next administration. Americans should be aware that Obama's chief of staff will be an Israeli, with terrorist roots and a clear loyalty to the state of Israel.
Although the Israeli Emanuel has been named as Obama's chief of staff, none of the Zionist-controlled media outlets in the United States seem as open as Ha'aretz to discuss Emanuel's family roots with the Nazi-linked Zionist terror gangs in Palestine in the 1930s and 40s. Naftali Bendavid of the Zionist-owned Chicago Tribune, for example, has written a book about Emanuel and spent a great deal of time with him but completely avoids his Israeli roots in the Tribune article he wrote on November 6.
... Don't expect the controlled media to tell you the whole truth about Emanuel's family ties to real assassins. To get an idea of who Emanuel really is, I recommend my 2006 article, "Son of a Zionist Terrorist -- Rahm Emanuel's Dirty Secret."
Emanuel even left the United States to serve in the Israeli army in 1991. A person from any other nation would automatically lose his U.S. citizenship for serving in a foreign military. Why do we let Israelis run our government? What will it take to remove people like Emanuel and Michael Chertoff to prevent them from damaging our American republic even more? The Zionist agents in our government are clearly in the process of accumulating power and not at all afraid of showing it. This is a very dangerous development.
... Americans should note that this means a foreigner, an Israeli, i.e. a person with loyalties to Israel, will be running the White House under Barack Obama. The chief of staff effectively controls the people around the president -- he decides who sees him, what he hears, and what he knows. The people surrounding the president report to the chief of staff. Emanuel will be the intellectual handler of President Obama (a continuation of the role he has played for years) and the controller of the White House. How do you think having an Israeli with terrorist roots will affect U.S. relations with Iran, Russia, the Palestinians -- and the rest of the world?....
http://www.bollyn.info/home/articles/polphil/rahm-...
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