Rahm Emanual To Israel: "You've Screwed Yourselves"
In Israel, both the right and left wing of the Hebrew press asked why, after losing the U.N. vote 138 to 9, an Israeli government would announce a move sure to further its international isolation. (Technically, the way Palestine is run hasn’t changed because of the vote; the Palestinian Authority simply has a different status — which happens to have the word state in it — within the international organization, with a few new legal prerogatives.) In Ma’ariv, the conservative columnist Ben-Dror Yemini called Netanyahu’s move “Pavlovian” and wrote, “Rather than thank the American administration for its amazing support on Thursday at the U.N. vote, the slap in the face came on Friday with the announcement of the construction of thousands of additional housing units.” In Yedioth Ahronoth, Nahum Barnea reported from the Saban Forum, a Washington, D.C., gathering of prominent Israeli and Americans in which the rules constrain attendees from saying who said what. The gist of a speech by a prominent American politician (identified in the same paper the next day as Obama’s former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) was: “You Israelis are ingrates. You’ve screwed yourselves.” Barnea’s conclusion: “Something bad has happened over the years to the production line in Israeli politics.”
Read more: http://world.time.com/2012/12/03/is-netanyahu-trying-to-make-the-two-state-option-an-impossibility/
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/04/1167059/-gist-of-Rahm-Emmanuel-Israel-has-screwed-itself
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So he's earned the right to set Netanyahu straight when he sees fit. 
I know Rahm has certain "preferred" words in his lexicon. 
If they've lost Rahm, they've lost the country.
Hopefully, Israeli voters will do the sane thing and vote Netanyahu's pro-war, pro-injustice government out of power this January. It's never too late to do the right thing.
