Self-hating leaks
Leaks are a perennial problem in Israel, but here’s one that Bibi Netanyahu could especially do without (courtesy of Ha’aretz):
He is convinced that the media are after him, that his aides are leaking information against him and that the American administration wants him out of office. Two months after his visit to Washington, he is still finding it difficult to communication normally with the White House. To appreciate the depth of his paranoia, it is enough to hear how he refers to Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, Obama's senior aides: as "self-hating Jews."
"He thought that his speech at Bar-Ilan would become mandatory reading at schools in the United States, and when he realized that Obama gave no such order, he went back to being frustrated," one of his associates said.
And the prime minister’s father isn’t helping either:
Channel 2 reported Wednesday night that the prime minister had told his father, 100-year-old historian Benzion Netanyahu, that he purposely set the conditions knowing that the Palestinians would never agree to them.
"He doesn't support [a Palestinian state]," the father said in a phone interview. "He set conditions that they won't ever accept. That's what he told me. He set the conditions and they won't accept even one of them."
So we know that Netanyahu and Emanuel have at least one thing in common: a quotable father.
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Rahm Emanuel’s wife converted to Judaism before her wedding to Rahm, and has been an active member of an Orthodox synagogue.But, according to the poster above, their children are Gentile. This view is simply wrong, coming from a warped understanding of Jewish identity that can only be called racist. It is a form of “Jewish supremacy” that sees “Jewish blood” as the prime marker of Jewish identity. It’s shameful, anti-Jewish, and it’s time for the Jewish people to set it down once and for all. Mr. “anti-intermarriage” ought to read Maimonides’ letter to Ovadiah the Proselyte. He’ll recognize himself in there—am ha’aretz!
Larry; You are very ignorant about Judaism. Calling me a racist because I state the truth shows your ignorance. You obviously don’t know the background of Rahm’s wife. She had a quickie fraudulent “conversion” under a liberal Conservative “Rabbi” for the sole purpose of getting married to Rahm. That is prohibited in Judaism. The only reason Rahm’s children are allowed to attend a Modern Orthodox school and their mother is acitve in a Modern Orthodox synagogue is because of who he is. This would never be allowed if Rahm wasn’t a big governmant official.
I don’t consider Anne Rule a real Jew. Neither she or Rahm have any respect for Judaism. Their children should be raised as Christians because that is what their mother is. Getting a phony conversion from an anti-Halacha “Rabbi” for the purpose of marriage doesn’t count!
Why should Israel have to apologize for a correct statement about the HofJuden whose pro-Israel credentials are suspect at the very least. Let’s face it, do you think for a moment that POTUS, whose most important education was obtained under the guidance of “professors” Wright, Khalidi and Ayres, would ever allow his closest “Jewish” advisors to be emotionally tied to Israel and the future of the Jjejwish people?
Let’s stop being so sensitive about the feelings of those whose advice, if enacted, would lead, God-forbid, to another Jewish national disaster. They can survive the “insults;” can we survive the product of their advice?
Ultimately, Netanyahu’s speech presented a realistic basis for peace. The four principles which he laid out seem to be a primer for any future Palestinian state, starting with the recognition of Israel as the legitimate home of the Jewish people.
His father’s comments would be irrelevant if the Palestinian people were accepting of a need for a two state solution.
As far as Mr. Axelrod and Emmanuel I suspect self interest may be what guides their choices.
Axelrod I am less familiar with, but Rahm seems to be pretty tied to Judaism and to Israel. You can criticize his wife’s conversion, but she converted, and the kids are being raised Jewish. That’s hardly a position of disinterest towards antisemitism.
The Israeli prime minister should know better than to mix up Judaism with Zionism. They are not the same thing. Not at all. President Obama’s advisers may be Jewish but not necessarily Zionists. To argue that that makes them self hating Jews is outrageous. Many Jews are not Zionists, or are not Zionist extremists. That dose not touch upon their religious beliefs whatsoever. Zionism is a political movement not a religious one.
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07/09/09 11:29 PM
Rahm and David are definately self-hating Jews. They belong to an administration that is against Israel and on the side of the Arabs. Both are also married to non-Jewish women and have Gentile children. They don’t care about Jews because their non-Jewish families aren’t affected by anti-semitism or the destruction of Israel. Bibi should not be pressured to apologize because what he said was the absolute truth.