Rahm Emanuel: Obama’s commitment to Israel

[alp227]

Days into my tenure as mayor of Chicago, with my focus on keeping our city’s streets safe, our schools strong and our finances stabilized, I expected my attention to be in the Midwest, not in the Middle East. But as an American and the son of an Israeli immigrant, I have a deep, abiding commitment to the survival, security and success of the state of Israel.

I am among the many who know that the Israeli people yearn for peace. They have taken risks for peace in spite of dangers. They will again, when they have a viable partner in the process and a region that recognizes a Jewish state of Israel with secure and defensible borders.

President Obama, like every student of the Middle East, understands that the shifting sands of demography in that volatile region are working against the two-state solution needed to end generations of bloodshed. The fragile stasis that exists today cannot hold.

Israel’s survival as a Jewish, democratic state is at stake because of many factors, including uncertainty brought by the Arab Spring, growth in the Palestinian population, unilateral efforts to create a recognized state of Palestine and technological advances in weaponry.

Full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-commitment-to-israel/2011/06/02/AGj0NZHH_story.html

Emanuel, the newly elected mayor of Chicago, served as Obama's chief of staff from 2009 to 2010.

[AndyTiedye]

1. Yo Rahm, You Were Elected Mayor of CHICAGO

not Jerusalem!

[yurbud]

2. Rahm is a cancer on the Democratic Party.

[Scottybeamer70]

3. "Jewish, democratic state"

That doesn't sound very democratic to me!
They do have Jewish only roads though.
Can you imagine a "Baptist" only road in this country?
There are no "chosen" people on this planet, and there is
not an inch of land on this planet that was "promised" by anyone!! How ridiculous!!

[Behind the Aegis]

4. There are no "Jewish only" roads.

Then again, you don't seem to know much about Israel.

[Ya Tzarone]

5. There will be no peace---

---until Netanyahu is unemployed.

[classysassy]

6. Until justice prevail

peace is impossible.Where is the justice when a majority of UN members demand that Israel cease the occupation of Gaza and the west bank and America veto the resolution.In any democracy the majority rules but in the case of the so called only democracy in the middle east that does not apply.We are being held hostage by a well connected group.

[Demeter]

7. If By Peace, You Mean "Peace on Our Terms Only"

then, yes, Israel wants peace. Other folks would call it something else...