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Jeffrey Goldberg on Emanuel and Israel


From The Atlantic [emphasis added]:

Peace-processors take heart: 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 outpost, or whichever outpost needs dismantling, because of a) domestic politics; b) security concerns, or c) the Bible, Rahm will call out such nonsense, and it will be very hard for right-wing Israelis to come back and accuse him of being a self-hating Jew. This is not to say that he’s unaware of Palestinian dysfunction, or Iranian extremism, but that he has a good grasp of some of Israel’s foibles as well….

Goldberg sounds a bit naive there, if my experience is any indication: right-wing Israelis will still “come back and accuse him of being a self-hating Jew.” This happens here in NE Ohio, where Jews call other Jews anti-Semites if they don’t pay allegiance the way the right-wing American Jews think every Jew should.

But I’m guessing that Emanuel is much like me in that regard – we just keep on knowing what we know, and let the others expend their energy labeling things left and right.  The elections have shown how that works out in the end.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:00 pm November 7th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Israel, Jewish, Politics, PostWH2008 

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