jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 11/6/2008
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The news that Rahm Emanuel has accepted Barack Obama's request to be his chief of staff is fascinating on many levels, not least of which is Rahm's deep Israel credentials. First, in the interest of full disclosure, I've known Rahm for a long time, and he's yelled at me for no good reason on ...
online.wsj.com - 11/8/2008
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Battering Rahm
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Whenever I've come across him, he has seemed like a massive, world class, meshuggena asshole. Goldie explains: I've known Rahm for a long time, and he's yelled at me for no good
reason on many occasions. This, of course, is the way he expresses
affection. He loves me! Then this: Rahm, precisely because he's a lover of Israel, will not have much patience with Israeli excuse-making, so when the next Prime Minister
tells President Obama that as much as he'd love to, he can't dismantle
the Neve Manyak settlement ...
Rahm Emanuel: Nobody Puts That Baby In a Corner
TPMCafe —
My previous statement on this subject is being vindicated by Jeff Goldberg, the New Yorker writer, a close Emanuel buddy. Read it.
I know plenty of you don't like Goldberg either. But he's pretty progressive on Israel and, I guess because he served in the Israeli army, has no problem telling Israel what it should do i.e. end the occupation.
Bottom line. Rahm Emanuel is going to be the White House enforcer. Forget about his father!
I would not want to be the AIPAC guy who makes the mistake of thinking that good ole Rahm is on the same side ...
Ali Abunimah gets nervous for no reason
Israel Matzav —
Ali Abunimah gets nervous for no reason This is an interview with Ali Abunimah, the man who introduced President elect Barack Hussein Obama to such 'Palestinian' luminaries as Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi. He's also the co-founder of the Islamic hate site Electronic Intifada. Let's go to the videotape. He sounds nervous, doesn't he? But he's reading too much into Obama's selection of Rahm Emmanuel as Chief of Staff. Because while Muslims will never desert their own, Jews will. Here's what (I assume he's Jewish) Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in the Atlantic about the Emmanuel ...
Why I Am a Democrat
NJDC Blog —
... Robert Wexler chairs the Europe Subcommitte; Brad Sherman chairs the Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcomittee; Gary Ackerman chairs the Middle East and South Asia Subcommitte; and Eliot Engel chairs the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. The State, Foreign Affairs, and Related Programs Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee is chaired by Nita Lowey.
The leadership of the Democratic party—Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Rahm Emanuel in the White House, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer in the House, ...
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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/6/2008 — Before the netroots starts attacking Emanuel as an AIPAC stooge, Likudnik, or whatever, let me weigh in.
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I don't know what the old man's politics on ...
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