Israeli PM Calls Emanuel and Axelrod "Self-Hating Jews": Paper

Haaretz:

[...] Netanyahu appears to be suffering from confusion and paranoia. He is convinced that the media are after him, that his aides are leaking information against him and that the American administration wants him out of office. Two months after his visit to Washington, he is still finding it difficult to communication normally with the White House. To appreciate the depth of his paranoia, it is enough to hear how he refers to Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, Obama's senior aides: as "self-hating Jews."

Read the whole story: Haaretz

Comments

[Veeve]

Anything that helps marginalize Bibi is a good thing. I've called him the Israeli Cheney for 5 years now.

[complice]

Interesting. So because Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod don't tow the Likud party line, this makes them "self-hating jews"?

That's a pretty bold thing to say.

[zerepas]

Not all Jews are Israelis.

So, what did Netanyahu really mean?

Anyway, his differentiation between himself and Rahm, makes me like Rahm even MORE!

[SuzanneK]

No Boobi Nutanyahoo, we Jewish-Americans don't hate ourselves, we hate YOU........

[Erdgeist]

Since when does not liking the Likud party make a good compassionate American Jew a self-hating Jew?

[renatam]

Seems you are out of the loop...and/or don't know what you have been supporting. We owe a debt of gratitude for the PM of Israel to make it plain who is who, and what is what - to the American people (taxpayers).

He is making it plain enough. He considers American Jews to BE ISRAELIS, and the first allegiance is to the State of Israel. Got it?

Now, fellow Americans - what other Nation and/or ethnic group would EVER say let along think such a thing?

Things are clearly out of control and Americans need to move along and leave Israel to her own devices, agendas, games...and bully someone else. Ridiculous.

[MissKaren]

How do you say 'wounded narcissism' in Hebrew?

[MED1025]

You can use english, he grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

[renatam]

Oh...where they don't want AA children to use the swimming pools. Explains much.

[BackToFight]

Hilarious!!! I did not know that. Huh, so much for having a superior claim to the land.

[gorgol]

Bibi needs a GOOD spanking..and I'm just the one to give it to him...now come here you cutie pie..lay over daddys lap.

[BackToFight]

Ugghh! Gross!

[newyorkid]

PaIestinians have no chance to get PaIestine back with this 0bama administration.

[seachild]

what???...your comments are a tad confusing...do you mean Palestinians have a chance to GET Palestine back with O?

and what is p_aranoic?

nevermind...have a good day/evening

[totaldisbelief]

apparently so.

[seachild]

why is there a CONSTANT battle between Israel and Palestine?...shouldn't they all want PEACE?...Bibi clearly does NOT

[BackToFight]

Here is a book to start with: "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by Illan Pappe. He is an Israel historian who had access to official Israeli government documents and outlines the history of the initial conflict between the 2 groups. It's a good place to start.

[renatam]

Do a little research on his sidekick, Avigdor Lieberman - and remember YOU are paying your hard-earned tax dollars to prop them up!

http://www.israelforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=1073

[Trueheart]

It all boils down to who has a right to the Holy City of Jerusalem, doesn't it?

Now that's worth millennia of blood, misery, oppression and chaos, dont' you think?
Maybe some day a great swirling sink hole will form in the earth, Jerusalem will disappear, and the battles will end. Short of something spectacular like that, I can't imagine how peace could come to that part of the world.

[PiscesPrincess]

How do you figure that? jumping to conclusions, aren't we.

[newyorkid]

Just take a look at the biIIons of dollars in US vveapons being sent to the lsraelis. That's p_aranoic.

[jazzman]

No they're not self-hating jews. They just can't stomach racist jews like the ones that think they can expropriate Palestinian land, bodoze down their Olive groves, settle radical Hassidic racist jews in the area, wall off the Palestinians and humilate them daily and have the undying loyalty of the socially aware and honorable jews who reside in America. Sorry, the Jews in our administration hates bigots whether they're jewish or not. That means you, Netanyahu!

[who38]

Don't know about David, but Rahm is a Zionist so he probably agrees that all of area occupied by Israelis and Palestinians should be part of Ersatz Isreal.

[newyorkid]

Former lsraeli Army employee Rahm Emanuel is what?

[newyorkid]

Anyone surprised at what the lsraelis voted?

[PiscesPrincess]

why don't you stay with your post long enough to finish a thought. then you might sound coherent.
too much texting and tweeting. chirp chip

[Forester]

Oy! And how much $ do we send to them every year?

[renatam]

They need the money to pay American lobbyists to exert undue ineluence on the American Government. In short, Bibi thought he had already BOUGHT the United States of America. We are just taxpayers for the 51st (religious) State, for the priviliged few. Got it???

Nice setup.

[Forester]

so, how much? 2-3 billion/yr?

[totaldisbelief]

that needs to stop.

[Montgriz]

Such a deal....we give them weapons and they give us weapons...we give them money, and they give us enemies and Axis of Evil.....we give them tax breaks and subsidies for the entire industries to move there and we get expensive generic drugs in return...Jews give them money and deduct it from taxes and they get trips to Tel Aviv in return....we finance their govt and they spy on ours but hey, so what's the harm? We give their neightbors billions to not attack them and they give us lobbyists to get more aid.....such a deal you cannot find...

[JakeMontero]

cool. sorry I missed all you folks at the antl semlte conference this weekend.

[jazzman]

anti-Netanyahu. I don't like O.J. Simpson either. It doesn't make me anti-black.

[seachild]

bingo, jazzman...flagged as favorite!

[Palemoon]

But you love to portray blacks as criminal thugs. What's the difference? Even when proven innocent in a court of law, you still hate and despise him don't you?

[yellowdoggie]

You obviously need to look up that term.

[renatam]

Propaganda even has a shelf life...as Bibi is finding out right about now. When the term is used frivolously and we all roll our eyes...does it have ANY meaning any longer???

[JakeMontero]

oh please. there is a lot of h8te for both israeI and je.ws here. admit it.

[MissKaren]

I am Jewish and I'm not willing to ring up the anti-Semitism card. Netanyahu ought to be more circumspect in his choice of language. He and Avigdor Lieberman are bad news for Israel.

[piul05]

By the look of it, it was a one-man event.

You should really stop organizing these things, Jake...

[who38]

Zing!

[totaldisbelief]

that won't flush

[Sarahmay57]

I'll try this again...

Okay, so if you disagree with Israel, you are anti-Jew, unless you are Jewish, then you are a self-hating Jew.

Bottom line, you must not disagree with Israeli policies.