Otherwise, hug my fucknuts, Pat Benatard.

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The Irgun was the armed expression of the nascent ideology of Revisionist Zionism founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. He expressed this ideology as "every Jew had the right to enter Palestine; only active retaliation would deter the Arabs and the British; only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state".[1] Initially, a central part of their efforts included attacks against Palestinian Arabs,[2] but it increasingly shifted to attacks against the British. Some of the better-known attacks by Irgun were the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre (accomplished together with the Stern Gang) on 9 April 1948. In the West, Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by The New York Times newspaper,[3][4] and by the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry.[5] Irgun attacks prompted a formal declaration from the World Zionist Congress in 1946, which strongly condemned "the shedding of innocent blood as a means of political warfare".[6]

Irgun was a political predecessor to Israel's right-wing Herut (or "Freedom") party, which led to today's Likud party. Likud has led or been part of most Israeli governments since 1977.

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The FBI searched for an Israeli mole in the Clinton White House. The Washington Post covered the story. You may think that fact is not important. Feel free. Maybe it isn't? Amuse us with your perspective. But don't deny the fact. What? Are you suggesting Israelis don't spy on the United States? Read Seymour Hersh on the Jonathan Pollard case. Oh, I know--Hersh is an anti-Semitic internet slander-monger, right?

Rahm Emmanuel's father was a member of the Irgun. Not a lot of people, for some reason, report that--but no one is denying it. You want to call it slander? Interesting approach to a fact.

The Irgun was a terrorist organization.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Is your point that we shouldn't care about such trivia?

Well, in that case, your beef is with this whole post, isn't it?

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Yes, until the majestic rapture when all truth is revealed to everyone in a burst of transcendent glory, let's stop being so curious or independent in our questioning. Brian Williams knows everything worth knowing. Listen to him. Quietly. He's a nice man.

Now let's shut down this Gawker thing and take a vow of silence. Last one out hit the lights, please...

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Care to offer another approach or are you finally tired of looking like a cornball dimwit?

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Quoting Gawker:

"Rahm's dad is Benjamin M. Emanuel, a Chicago pediatrician and, in the 1940s, a member of Irgun, the militant Zionist group that attacked Palestinians and the British throughout Palestine. They killed 90 people in a Hotel bombing in 1946 and then there was this little massacre that got out of hand in Deir Yassin."

They mocked the shit out of me!!!

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Facts:

During the Democratic primaries in 2006, when Emanuel headed up the Dems' congressional operation, he backed pro-war candidates over antiwar Democrats every time.

Bill Safire, hardly a fringe radical, on "Meet the Press": "Although he's a rootin' tootin' liberal on domestic affairs, he is a hawk on foreign affairs... [with Hillary Clinton] here you have the hawkish side of the Democratic Party. If they get together, the bumper sticker will read 'Invade and bomb with Hillary and Rahm.'"

When the House Democratic majority passed a military appropriations bill slated for Iraq, a clause that would have prohibited an attack on Iran without a vote in Congress was deleted at the instigation of Emanuel and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (So Congress shouldn't get a say on attacking another nation? So much for the Constitution...)

But don't worry, "slander" Stasi. The way things are going with appointments (Jane Harman to the head the CIA?!! What?!!) in the nascent Obama administration, I'll have other targets.

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