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    Rahm Emanuel apologizes for father's disparaging remarks about Arabs

     

     

            <h1>Rahm Emanuel apologizes for father's disparaging remarks about Arabs</h1>

     

    U.S.

    President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff <b>Rahm Emanuel</b> apologized

    to an Arab-American group on Thursday for comments disparaging Arabs

    made by his father.

     

    As Zionist Jew, Rahm Israel Emanuel, who is a dual Israeli/US citizen, who is said to  act as an effective spy in the White House for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. With Emanuel running the White House, Mossad HQ will enjoy an unprecedented direct flow of America’s highest level national security information.

     

    Emanuel’s connections to the Mossad began at birth in 1959. Rahm Emanuel is the son of Israeli-born physician, Benjamin Emanuel, who passed secret codes for Menachim Begin’s Israeli terrorist group known as the Irgun. “Secret codes” are the province of the Mossad, and the Mossad, only.

     

     

    The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee sent a letter to

    Emanuel calling on him to distance himself from remarks made by the

    elder Emanuel in an interview with an Israeli newspaper following his

    son's appointment last week.

    In the interview, Benjamin Emanuel was reported as saying:

    <i>"Obviously, he will influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why

    wouldn't he? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of

    the White House."</i>

    While

    some political analysts have said Rahm Emanuel, a veteran Democratic

    congressman, should not be held responsible for the actions of his

    father, there was also a sense that an apology was unavoidable.

     

    "Today, Rep. Emanuel called Mary Rose Oakar, president of the

    American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, apologized on behalf of

    his family and offered to meet with representatives of the

    Arab-American community at an appropriate time in the future," a

    statement from his office said.

    The committee, in a statement on its website, said Emanuel told

    Oakar it was unacceptable to make such remarks against any ethnic or

    religious group.

    "From the fullness of my heart, I personally apologize on behalf of

    my family and me. These are not the values upon which I was raised or

    those of my family," the group quoted him as saying.

    Oakar welcomed the apology, saying: "We cannot allow Arabs and Muslims to be portrayed in these unacceptable terms."

    Some commentators in the Middle East have raised concern about the

    appointment of Emanuel, who has a pro-Israel record, suggesting he

    could use his position to influence Obama's policies in the region.

    But political analysts and Emanuel himself this week dismissed such

    suggestions. The congressman said Obama did not need his influence to

    "orientate his policy toward Israel."

    The chief of staff position serves as one of the closest advisers

    to the president and typically can decide who gains access to the

    president, while also developing administration policies. </td>

     

     

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