You cannot suck and blow at the same time

Oh, the hypocrisy of it all. Yesterday I read in the newspaper that Rahm Emanuel, yes, Obama's Chief of Staff who is Jewish but anti-Israel, is in Israel for his son's bar mitzvah. I'm sorry, but for the life of me I can't figure out what his game is.

Let me get this straight. The guy spends his days in Washington finding new and increasingly sly ways to screw the Jewish State yet when it comes time to bar mitzvah his son, he hops on a plane and comes to the exact place that he is trying to shut down for Jews. All I can say is: Why bother? Are you in or are you out? Where, exactly do you stand?

We aren't here for your sporadic pleasure you know. Why don't you bar mitzvah your son in the holy land of Washington?

Rahm Emanuel is an excellent example of why Jews shouldn't hold high-profile offices in other countries. I do not believe that those Jews who do are "good for the Jews". In fact, I think it is the exact opposite: those high-powered Jews in other countries spend most of their time trying to demonstrate that they do NOT have divided loyalties when in fact, they probably do -- or should. Or if they don't, their families do and they are expected to tow the line. It's a no win situation.

When a Jew reaches a position of influence such as chief of staff for the president of the United States, we Jews have expectations that he (or she) will remember where they came from. And of course, that is never the case. If such a person did show any loyalty to their roots the rest of the public would probably go ballastic accusing the high-office achiever of being predictably (fill in the blank here with your favorite ethnic or other diversity group).

Which brings us to Rahm Emanuel. He is living proof of my theory. No matter how hard I try, I just can't think of anything nice to say about him. I would like to say some really bad things about him but my Ad Hoc Legal Committee gets anxious everytime I look like I am headed in that direction. After all, regardless of what a lowlife I think he is, he IS the president of the United States' chief of staff.

And as a result he is proving to be as anti-Israel as his boss -- yet another guy in high office insisting to be supportive of little democratic Israel, but in reality being anything but that.

I read somewhere that Rahm Emanuel volunteered during one of Israel's many recent wars. Clap, clap, clap, clap. Applause. Applause. What does he want? A parade? Well, I am not giving him one because while he may have done the right thing once, when he was finally in a position to do the greatest good, he chose not to.

That's not much of a role model for a bar mitzvah boy.

Are you threatening us?

So the wolf is finally starting to slip out of its sheep clothing. Oh goody.

For the past few months I have been receiving emails saying that I should stop complaining about all the things I complain about, and start focusing on what really matters. And what is that you ask? Well, I think the answer is plain and clear in today's Jerusalem Post. The new Democratic government in the US, according to The New York Times, is telling Israel: "you either start doing things our way or we are going to withhold support for you in the United Nations."

First of all, that is simply not nice. It seems to me that the US is being childish. "You either do it our way or we are going to get you back," is in essence what Obama and his Jewish chief-of-staff, Rahm Emanuelle, are saying. I think that's what happens when you put people in positions of huge power when they don't have the credentials for the job. This isn't an Affirmative Action program. This is the real deal and unfortunately, the lives of many innocent people in many places around the globe are depending on the president to actually understand foreign policy and real politik. (I haven't used that phrase since fourth year undergrad. Never thought I would use it again.) Obama might be a good guy if you meet him on the street and he might have done some wonderful things in Chicago, but Barak Hussein Obama: WE AREN'T IN KANSAS ANY MORE!

Second of all, are you Americans going to stand by while your newbie president threatens the only real democracy in the Middle East? I suspect that after all the media get their two cents in, the answer would be a big fat YES. I don't blame you because I am sure it is difficult to tell who the good guys are and who the bad guys are at this point in this convoluted mess of a story we call the Middle East Peace process. I, for one, am waiting for Armageddon -- it's playing out in Meggido you know and that isn't too far from my house. About a two hour drive and voila, you can be there when it all happens.

Third, I know that this is just a technicality for the Americans, but you are bullying an independent country. You can't ride shipshod over another nation-state because you don't like what they are doing. I realize that all the power is on your side -- you can withdraw your financial support and heaven knows that would be painful; you can reverse your rhetoric and within days the entire Islamic world would be knocking at your door inviting you to a sleepover; and if all that doesn't work you can implement trade sanctions and encourage political and market isolation. Agreed. You can do that. And if all else fails, you can drive down to New Mexico and fire up one of your nuclear war-heads. We're a small country, you wouldn't need many to wipe us off the map entirely.

And then my friend, Mr. Obama, you will have played into the hands of the exact people you are supposedly trying to bring around to your way of thinking. You will be the next Saddam Hussein (you already carry that name) or Ahmadinejad. And you think you have your foreign policy ducks lined up nicely now. Just wait until Israel isn't there to save you!