Democrat hopeful delivers a warning to Israeli extremists

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Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff and mayor of Chicago, has ambitions to become US president and hopes to compete in the 2028 presidential primary. As a student of politics, this possible Democratic Party contender seems good at reading the political landscape.

Emanuel has a strong Israeli background. His father grew up and is buried in Israel, and he has been a strong pro-Israeli Zionist throughout his political career.

To even have a chance in the Democratic primaries, Emanuel knows he needs to walk away from the party’s traditional position. The 2024 defeat of Kamala Harris, who gave lip service to the Middle East while a genocide was taking place, must be front and center in his calculations. What Emanuel needs is either a change in the right-wing hawkish Israeli policy or at least a chance to differ from Israel without being attacked as a self-hating Jew.

The policy speech on the US-Israel alliance that Emanuel gave at Tel Aviv University last week therefore needed to show sympathy and solidarity with........

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