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When President Obama welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House today, Obama will most likely propose that Israel be a test of Iran’s readiness to halt its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

He won’t put it in such blunt terms of course, but will talk of the supposed linkage that exists between Israel making peace with the Palestinians, and Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Obama will unsuccessfully try to prove, that there is a connection between an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and Iran’s mullahs giving up their quest for nuclear weapons.

If Obama takes this tack, which is he expected to, he will fail miserably because there is no connection whatsoever between the two issues, and Netanyahu will correctly remain unconvinced.

Obama may then try gentle pressure, which is the most that he can use, but the facts are clear and Obama surely knows them and will respect Netanyahu’s rejection.

Did Iran set out to get nuclear weapons in order to help the Palestinians get a State? Of course not.

Has Iran even faintly suggested that it will halt its pursuit of nuclear weapons if the Palestinians get a State. Never.

Abbas controls nothing, and can hardly order a pizza.

He would lose the West Bank to Hamas in a matter of weeks if Israel were to hand it over to him, and Hamas stated as recently as yesterday that it will never recognize Israel.

Where would this new State be, and who would control it?

What is more, even under Abbas’s moderate guidance, Palestinian children are still raised on a diet of hatred in their schools, and specially made cartoons and videos that glorify dying a martyr’s death and others that show Jews drinking babies blood are common place.

There are presently fifty seven Islamic states, but Abbas is recently on record as saying that he will “never accept Israel as a Jewish state”.

Some in the U.S. would like to coerce Israel into some sort of two state deal, simply to see how Iran would respond, since there is not much appetite for either an Iran with nuclear bombs or launching an attack against it at the present time.

Netanyahu is a seasoned politician however, and knowing that Obama cannot force him, he will refuse to allow Israel to be used as a guinea pig.

Rahm Emanuel: Mitt Romney 'Turns A Blind Eye' To The Middle Class

www.huffingtonpost.com11/20/11

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had some harsh words for Mitt Romney Sunday, saying the Republican presidential candidate "turns a blind eye" to the middle class.

Priest and nun tag-team Rahm Emanuel – Tim Mak – POLITICO.com

www.politico.com12/1/11

He reportedly takes some ribbing over a decision to cut off a Chicago nonprofit's free water.

Obama’s choice of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff is in some ways mind boggling.

Emanuel is a combative Chicago congressman supremely versed in the ways of the White House and Capitol Hill and he will have one of the biggest voices in the new administration. He is a bare-knuckled Chicago politician who is not only well known for his ability to say ‘no’ but also for his often expressed vulgarity and Obama once joked at a charity dinner that when Rahm Emanuel severed his middle finger, “it almost rendered him mute”.

In a statement announcing Emanuel’s appointment Obama said, “No one I know is better at getting things done than Rahm Emanuel”, to which Emanuel replied that he was heeding Obama’s call because “I want to do everything I can to help the new administration”.

Lots of Republican’s have a problem however with how Emanuel gets things done and he has sparked numerous conflicts with many of them causing the House Republican leader John Boehner to comment, “This is an ironic choice for a president-elect who has promised to change Washington, make politics more civil, and govern from the center”.

Emanuel, who reportedly once sent a Democratic consultant a dead fish issued a statement saying “I want to say a special word about my Republican colleagues, who serve with dignity, decency and a deep sense of patriotism,” Emanuel said in a statement. “We often disagree, but I respect their motives. Now is a time for unity”.

So ‘what’s mind boggling about this?’ you may well ask.

Well a quick look at Rahm Emanuel’s roots and history reveal things that may startle many in the middle east and probably all around the world.

Rahm was born in Chicago, Illinois and his name Rahm Emanuel is Hebrew.

The name Rahm means “high or lofty” and Emanuel means “God is with us”. He was named ‘Rahm’ after a slain Lehi combatant and ‘Emanuel’ after Rahm’s paternal uncle, Emanuel Auerbach, who was killed in a skirmish with Arabs in Jerusalem.

* Lehi -= “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel”, was a militant Jewish underground movement during the time of the British mandate.