Far-Right MK Reminds Rahm He’s Jewish
Somehow National Union party leader Ya’akov Katz has managed to position himself as so right-wing that he couldn’t find a way into Bibi Netanyahu’s rightist coalition government. He also has some odd ideas about public relations:
National Union chairman Ya’acov “Ketzele” Katz sent a letter to White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel last week admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins.
Katz’s missive came in response to a reported verbal exchange between Emanuel and an unidentified American Jewish leader.
That’s all basically sideshow antics. But James Besser has a good item in New York Jewish Week about how most folks figured Barack Obama’s talk about a serious drive for peace was just talk, but now a lot of Israel hawks are starting to worry he might mean what he says.
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April 20th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Re Katz
That’s not very smart on the part of Mr. Katz (whose intelligence is probably in the double digits to start with). He should be aware that Mr. Emanual is rather adverse to being pushed around and taking direction from the peanut gallery. I can imagine that the string of expletives emanating from Mr. Emanuels’ office will be something to behold.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I watched inauguration day with some friends who are committed activists on a number of fronts and when they saw Bush leaving for the last time one of them said, “This is going to kill activism”.
I said you will always have Palestine.
I’d like to be wrong about that.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
If you think Obama means what he says, please come forth with the facts, not someone’s writing. Don’t you judge people by what they do, not what they say? (especially someone as slick as Obama, not to put to fine a point about it). How much of HRC’s promised $900M in aid has the suffering Gazan’s received? What has actually been DONE in the past 100 days to show the US means business? Unilateral banter between some religio-fascist and top US official doesn’t amount to doing anything one way or the other.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
If Emanuel said this (and I concede that it’s a big “if”), his reputation for being the most hard-nosed Obama appointment should lead one to a conclusion that a two-state solution will be pressed nowithstanding AIPAC pressure or intransigence and deceptions from the Israeli leadership.
At the very least, one can hope…
April 20th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I’m thinking Rahm might actually buckle to him.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Rahm: Forget my Jewish and Israeli origins? Hell, Israel is my middle name! Literally.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:29 am
Re Ziad
I’m thinking Rahm might actually buckle to him.
Not hardly. I suspect that Mr. Emmanuels’ reaction was something along the lines, “tell fuckface Katz to take his fucking letter and shove it up his fucking ass.”