I’ve already expressed my concerns with Obama’s choice of Rahm Emanuel for White House Chief of Staff. Shmuel Rosner confirms them:
Emanuel might be even more problematic for Israel because of his Israeli background. He was “problematic” in the past – some Israeli officials with which I spoke do not remember him fondly (others do) and think of him as a condescending, know-it-all, aggressive, pushy.
In referring to a letter Emanuel wrote last year to the Israeli ambassador in Washington, complaining about Israel’s attitude towards Sudanese refugees, Rosner characterizes Emanuel as “Know it all – pushy – and also very wrong.”
As I’ve already said, unless Emanuel packs his bags and moves to Israel (which is his right, nay, his duty), he has no right to tell Israel what to do. We’ve already been down this path, where a pushy American causes Israel to make harmful moves. Be worried. Be very, very worried.
My prediction is, if the economic crisis resolves and obama gets to the business he was elected to deal with, the festering sore that is Israel Rahm Emanuell will be his point man to get the job done. by the job I mean humiliating, coercing, brow-beating, ostracizing, emasculating the jewish State so it is ripe for the final solution. The job of any Israeli diplomat will be to stare him down and clarfy in no uncertain terms that israel, the only Jewish sovereignty is no lackey, and should it go down, the house is likely to go down with it.
Agreed. The question is, who is that diplomat? I don’t see anyone like that right around now. Maybe Dan Gillerman – he did a pretty good job in the UN, but I don’t know what he’s up to now.