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Rahm Emanuel apologizes for father's disparaging remarks about Arabs

        <h1>Rahm Emanuel apologizes for father's disparaging remarks about Arabs</h1>

U.S.

President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff <b>Rahm Emanuel</b> apologized

to an Arab-American group on Thursday for comments disparaging Arabs

made by his father.

As Zionist Jew, Rahm Israel Emanuel, who is a dual Israeli/US citizen, who is said to  act as an effective spy in the White House for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. With Emanuel running the White House, Mossad HQ will enjoy an unprecedented direct flow of America’s highest level national security information.

Emanuel’s connections to the Mossad began at birth in 1959. Rahm Emanuel is the son of Israeli-born physician, Benjamin Emanuel, who passed secret codes for Menachim Begin’s Israeli terrorist group known as the Irgun. “Secret codes” are the province of the Mossad, and the Mossad, only.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee sent a letter to

Emanuel calling on him to distance himself from remarks made by the

elder Emanuel in an interview with an Israeli newspaper following his

son's appointment last week.

In the interview, Benjamin Emanuel was reported as saying:

<i>"Obviously, he will influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why

wouldn't he? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of

the White House."</i>

While

some political analysts have said Rahm Emanuel, a veteran Democratic

congressman, should not be held responsible for the actions of his

father, there was also a sense that an apology was unavoidable.

"Today, Rep. Emanuel called Mary Rose Oakar, president of the

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, apologized on behalf of

his family and offered to meet with representatives of the

Arab-American community at an appropriate time in the future," a

statement from his office said.

The committee, in a statement on its website, said Emanuel told

Oakar it was unacceptable to make such remarks against any ethnic or

religious group.

"From the fullness of my heart, I personally apologize on behalf of

my family and me. These are not the values upon which I was raised or

those of my family," the group quoted him as saying.

Oakar welcomed the apology, saying: "We cannot allow Arabs and Muslims to be portrayed in these unacceptable terms."

Some commentators in the Middle East have raised concern about the

appointment of Emanuel, who has a pro-Israel record, suggesting he

could use his position to influence Obama's policies in the region.

But political analysts and Emanuel himself this week dismissed such

suggestions. The congressman said Obama did not need his influence to

"orientate his policy toward Israel."

The chief of staff position serves as one of the closest advisers

to the president and typically can decide who gains access to the

president, while also developing administration policies. </td>