Self-hating Jews
Our Rabbis tell us that the Second Temple was destroyed due to sinat chinam (baseless hatred). As often happens at this time of year, today is filled with accusations that certain Jews are 'self-hating Jews.' The accusations are not necessarily right or wrong. But our Rabbis also teach us that we should not ignore derogatory speech when doing so could endanger us (I cannot look up sources today - we're not permitted to study Torah - but the source is a Gemara in the Tractate of Nida page 61a if I recall correctly).I believe that it is long past time to be suspicious of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Yes, his father served in the Irgun - one of the pre-State paramilitary organizations here in Israel. But this would not be the first time that a son goes in the opposite direction from his father. And if this story is even half true, we Jews need to be very suspicious.
President Obama revealed this week that his White House advisor Rahm Emanuel, whose father was an Israeli and part of the underground resistance movement under the British Mandate, tells him everything he needs to know about Israel.Meanwhile, Jeffrey Goldberg complains about being called a self-hating Jew (Hat Tip: Mememorandum) for writing this in a post yesterday:
Emanuel also is the man who choreographed the handshake between former President Bill Clinton, former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn.
He has pushed the president into a head-on collision with the Netanyahu government, but there is a growing opinion that he has also left the president out on a limb. Emanuel’s strategy was to demonstrate that the pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) no longer speaks for American Jewry.
Mondoweis Blogger Philip Weis, who continually attacks a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, wrote last month, “Obama's game is to defeat the Israel lobby from within. He could not defeat the lobby from outside it…. But now he is cracking it like a nut, and counting on Jews to do the cracking.”
That strategy has turned into a wall of opposition, both in Israel, where the president’s popularity rating is near-zero, in the U.S. where Emanuel has simply ignored opposing views of major Jewish organizations, and in the normally anti-settlement American press.
The building of new "illegal" outposts by West Bank settlers -- building accompanied by racist slurs directed at Israel's main benefactor, the President of the United States -- is a direct challenge to the legitimacy of Israel's democratically-elected government. If these outposts are allowed to stand, it will mean that the government of Israel is incapable of enforcing its own laws, or unwilling to do so. Israel and the United States demanded of the Palestinian Authority that it jail those who defied Palestinian law and threatened the Palestinian national cause. Israel should treat these settlers in the same manner. They are criminals who undermining the sovereignty of the Jewish state. If they are not stopped, then we might as well face the harsh truth, that the settlers are in open revolt against the government of the State of Israel, and that their fanaticism may destroy the 2,000-year-old dream of Jewish independence.Goldberg is just plain wrong, but I don't believe he's a self-hating Jew. The law has to be upheld, but there is a huge difference between the violence of 'Palestinian' terrorists and a bunch of kids who are camping out on hilltops all over Judea and Samaria. Would Goldberg argue that non-violent civil rights demonstrators should have been treated the same as murderers and rapists? And I don't know what these kids are 'calling' Obama (I haven't seen reports other than that awful movie I refused to link that was mostly drunken non-Israelis), but it's irrelevant to the discussion. Israeli kids aren't required to venerate Obama.
But to return to Emanuel for a minute, I have already given my opinion that he is a self-hating Jew, and I stand by that opinion (for the record, saying that is not considered lashon hara - derogatory speech - for reasons I won't get into here). The man is willing to endanger millions of Jewish lives to advance his own career. He is beneath contempt.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:48 PM
7 Comments:
Carl - as we both know Jews who harm the Jewish people end up paying the price. Emanuel Rahm is going to learn the same lesson Ariel Sharon did. And yes, he is beneath contempt.
NormanF, I wish you were right but unfortunately G-d works in mysterious ways! Think George Soros...
i believe that rahm is a politician...not a self hating jew
you want to see true self hating jews? look no further than norm finkelstein or noam chomsky.
it is unfair to include rahm among them.
Rahm looks diabolic, a real Mefisto
just look at these hateful eyes, like Goebbels
what a disgusting person this one is
Here is what Obama has created: A war between the Jewish people. Is it his goal to divide and conquer? Foolish American Jews, falling prey to their own and the president of the United States.
Halli Casser-Jayne http://www.thecjpoliticalreport.com
Let's not get too emotional.
There is NO WAR between the Jewish People. The Israelis almost unanimously dislike Obama, and I believe American Jews are finally sorry they voted for creep.
From the American Jews I talked to, many Obama supporters are upset at Obama. Don't allow a few self-hating liberal Jews make you think the Jewish people are NOT together for Israel. We are!
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