Israel’s 60th Birthday

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Co-authored book: The Plan: Big Ideas for America – Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed

• Obama’s chief of staff choice favors compulsory universal service – J.D. Tuccille (Examiner)
• ‘Rahmbo’ takes Washington with Obama – Allison Hoffman (J Post)
• :Emanuel to be Obama’s chief of staff – J Post — mentions Emanuel Senior’s infamous ‘What is he, an Arab?’ comment
• Obama, Emanuel and Israel – John V. Whitbeck(CP)
• Obama picks pro-Israel hardliner for top post – Ali Abunimah (ei)
• Looking Under the Hood of an Obama Administration – Joshua Frank (Z-Net)
• Real News video: Who is Rahm Emanuel? and Obama recruits “Rahmbo” Emanuel
• Son of a Zionist Terrorist: Rahm Emanuel’s Dirty Secret – Christopher Bollyn (PeoplesVoice)
• Is Obama Screwing His Base with Rahm Emanuel Selection? – Stephen Zunes (AlterNet)
• The five most infamous Rahm Emanuel moments – Foreign Policy blog
• Obama faced with security problem at outset of transition process – Wayne Madsen (subscriber only, see below for full text*)
• Rahm Emanuel is no Reason for Hope or Celebration – (Rabbi) Michael Lerner
• Crazy Quilt American-Jewish Attitudes Toward Israel: Emanuel Family, Case in Point – Richard Silverstein
• Re Emanuel, the Left Continues to Be Claimed by the Israel Lobby – Philip Weiss
• Barack’s Enforcer – Martin Sieff

More

• How Rahm Emanuel Has Rigged a Pro-War Congress – John Walsh (2006)
• Zion-power and War: From Iraq to Iran; The Deadly Embrace – James Petras (2007)
• Rahm Emanuel, Pitbull politician – Nina Easton (2006)
• Rahm Rahm Rahm, Rahm Rahm Iran – Lew Rockwell (mention/snippet only)
• Huff Post dedicated Rahm Emanuel page
• BBC page profile
• The Arab World Reacts to Rahm Emanuel’s Appointment
• Somewhat fawning profile of 2 Emanuel brothers in NY Times (1997), reveals family name originally Auerbach

*November 6, 2008 — Obama faced with security problem at outset of transition process

WMR has learned from informed U.S. intelligence sources that prospective Barack Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has an active FBI counter-intelligence file maintained on him. Emanuel’s rise to the Chief of Staff position may pose a significant security problem for President-elect Obama if the FBI insists on conducting the full background security investigation normally required for senior White House officials.

Questions about Emanuel’s links to the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, were allegedly so great that President Bill Clinton was forced to dismiss Emanuel from the White House staff in 1998. One of the FBI agents who discovered Emanuel’s dealings with Israeli intelligence was, according to our sources, the late FBI counter-terrorism Assistant Director John O’Neill. O’Neill retired after being set up in a smear operation involving a temporarily stolen brief case in 2001. O’Neill and another FBI agent who still works for the bureau and shall remain nameless at this point to protect him and his career discovered that Emanuel was heavily involved in the decision to place intern Monica Lewinsky close to President Clinton. O’Neill accepted the top security position for Kroll Associates at the World Trade Center. O’Neill was killed in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. WMR has also reported that O’Neill was a close friend of slain retired Houston CIA station chief Roland V. “Tony” Carnaby, who was similarly investigating Israeli intelligence operations in the Houston area when Houston police shot and killed him last April.

Emanuel reportedly had knowledge of Israeli intelligence penetration of White House communications systems and Lewinsky, in sworn testimony before the Office of Independent Counsel, stated: “He [Clinton] suspected that a foreign embassy [it is now known that embassy was that of Israel] was tapping his telephones, and he proposed cover stories.” Lewinsky continued, “If ever questioned, she should say that the two of them were just friends. If anyone ever asked about their phone sex, she should say that they knew their calls were being monitored all along, and the phone sex was just a put on.”

WMR has learned from U.S. intelligence sources that Emanuel was discovered to be part of a political intelligence and blackmail operation directed against Clinton by Israel’s Likud Party and Binyamin Netanyahu to sink Clinton’s proposed Middle East peace deal. We have also learned that the FBI investigation of Emanuel is part of a file code-named the “Mega file.” “Mega” is a reference to a top-level Mossad agent in the Reagan administration who was said to have run a number of Israeli agents, including U.S. Navy spy Jonathan Pollard.