Rahm Emanuel Israel Politics: Trust and Leadership Issues | JP
There is something deeply suspicious about Rahm Emanuel.
A close ally of Barack Obama, a supporter of the Iran nuclear deal, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and former Mayor of Chicago, Emanuel, whose parents emigrated from Israel, seems unusually eager to argue that Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the fact that young Americans are turning away from Israel.
He does not speak about changing demographics, foreign funding, or the Chinese, Arab, and Russian interests in fueling antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment as a way of deepening divisions within the American political body and society. Instead, Emanuel lectures Israelis about PR. And the “two-state solution”, a proposal that, has lead to more Jewish and Arab bloodshed then ever, because it rests on assumptions that the Arabs themselves see as a chance for never-ending Jihad-War.
But there is something strange about this soft spoken jew. First, he seems to derive unusual satisfaction from lecturing fellow Israelis about Israel. Second, the Israelis who are dumb enough to listen and republish him should ask themselves why they should accept moral instruction from someone whom there is little to no evidence to prove that he has significantly contributed to the long-term survival or flourishing of the Jewish people. Third, it appears that Emanuel uses the Israeli story to distance himself from the reality that he is a Jewish man who, in many American contexts, is perceived as white. Hence, he goes to the Israelis, scolds them, to win cookie points with the party that is at this point anti-jewish.
He thus fails to recognize that he will ultimately become one of the next targets of the progressive political movement that emerged from the Democratic coalition he himself helped build alongside his and David Axelrod’s Golem – Barack Hussein Obama.
This is not the place to fully examine Obama’s political talent. Nevertheless, I believe his ability to build and consolidate political power recalls, in certain respects, the organizational methods of Lenin.
In my view, Obama built five major pillars of political power:
- A new alignment between America’s security establishment, corporate sector, and economic institutions under a common ideological language. The integration of academia into the Democratic Party, and the growing alignment between the Democratic Party and elements of the intelligence establishment. The construction of a broad federal judicial and bureaucratic appointment network that reinforced and consolidated the first two pillars. The creation of a new era of highly centralized charismatic leadership within the Democratic Party, more concentrated than anything seen since Franklin D. Roosevelt. The use of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives as an additional framework that strengthened and protected the other four pillars internally, and help them project consolidatory power into external institutions.
Rahm Emanuel was one of the principal architects of this project.
That project has done enormous damage to American political culture, race relations, and many other aspects of public life. And yet this is the man who now seeks to lecture Israel, and perhaps even present himself as a national leader in America. He argues that Israel has lost the support of young Americans because of Netanyahu. Netanyahu has undoubtedly, made serious mistakes that have harmed Israel and have not helped its international standing. But hostility toward Jews existed long before Netanyahu, and it will continue after him.
And Emanuel, the merchant he is says to the gentiles, and the jews – “guys, it’s not all the jews, it’s just their leaders – how about a state for the PLO, so more people can die?”
He thinks that if he gives them Bibi, they will believe jews deserve a state in their ancestral homeland? he thinks that if he gives the arabs the 67 boarders they will accept Israel?
These two “Yes’s”, is all you need to know about the sanity and rationality of this person. That does not mean Netanyahu should not be criticized. It does mean that Emanuel largely ignores the deeper ideological currents within the Democratic Party, currents that, he himself helped shape and which are now becoming increasingly visible.
That, to me, is the central issue.
I believe Emanuel has repeatedly placed his own political ambitions above the interests of the American or Jewish people, first by helping elevate Barack Obama, and now by portraying Netanyahu as the principal explanation for America’s changing relationship with Israel.
He helped mess up America to look like it does; helped push the two state death cult which led to October 7th, and now he blames Bibi, for the ramifications the two state solution on a new America he helped built – not looking good?
For it not selling well on tik tok?
Right, it’s not the Communist Golem you helped build.
Is this man dumb or just evil?.
Whether that makes him worthy of the trust of the Jewish community is a question every reader should answer for themselves.