OBAMA'S SECOND ZIONIST APPOINTEE

The Joy of change lasted what? Like a day? By yesterday evening America woke up to a relatively new name in the new power configuration: Rahm Emanuel, the son of an Israeli military officer, an ardent hawkish Zionist who now holds the second most senior position in an Obama presidency as his chief of staff. Like Joe Biden, he is a self declared and proud Zionist. Would that automatically make him a neoconservative? No, but it would be interesting to see if there has been a change in the attitude among left leaning Zionists. Do they really wanna deal with the mideast crisis? Or they see Obama as another 4 or 8 years of buying time for the Apartheid regime in Palestine.

I personally think that it is the economy, locally and globally that would give meaning to the Obama presidency and dictate the direction for the new regime in the White House. For a real change of direction, the stock market has to plunge further down. 8500 points is not low enough to trigger "change". We need a stock market below 6000. then maybe we will see real change. Until then, we can hold our collective breath and watch the transition team. meanwhile at Gagosian Gallery, a beautiful exhibition of work by HIROSHI SUGIMOTO opened last night.