Haman and Rahm Emmanuel: The Liar and the Advisor

Haman and Rahm Emmanuel have much in common.

Haman had served Persia in the past, when he was a failed general for the Persian army. Emmanuel served the Clinton administration, but was lesser known.

Then Haman was suddenly elected to the post of chief adviser to the most powerful man in the world. Emmanuel was unexpectedly chosen as chief-of-staff to Obama, the most powerful man in the world.

Haman was opposed to a Jewish presence on earth. Rahm Emmamuel, is opposed to a Jewish presence in the West Bank in Israel.

Haman had all the people in Sushan bow to him. Rahm Emmanuel is famous for his bark and bite attitude towards the presidents staff and everyone else that enters the white house.

Yet there is a major difference between Rahm Emmanuel and Haman.

Haman lied to the king when he said that the Jews where disloyal, he lied for his own gains. Perhaps even attempting to weaken the king’s political base, to make it easier for him to implement a coup and usurp the Persian crown.

Emmanuel is advising Obama. In his opinion settlements impede peace in Israel. Because Rahm follows the linkage argument whose central proposition states that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, has a causal relationship with the instability in the greater Middle-East. Therefore for the Middle-East to be stable the Israeli/Palestinian conflict needs to be resolved.

Thus Emmanuel believes what he says, whereas Haman lied in an effort to fulfill his beliefs.

The real question is whether Emmanuel will be an Esther when he wakes up and sees the Persians about to launch a nuke at Israel or like Haman implicitly allowing the nuke to be launched?