Rahm Emanuel

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

Society, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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*** Share episode on X: https://tinyurl.com/yc4a9uvh *** Our interests in the Indo-Pacific, Russia-Ukraine, and the Middle East are all interconnected. A regional war in one, could easily trip into a regional war in another — and in some cases actors in one region are already being supported by regional actors from another. Just follow the moves of Beijing, Moscow and Tehran. Rahm Emanuel has been an energetic diplomat in one of those regions — the Indo-Pacific. He is the U.S. ambassador to Japan. In addition to being a diplomatic and policy practitioner, he has also been an often astute — and sometimes provocative — analyst of the Chinese Government and its moves. Rahm also has deep roots in American Jewish life and with Israel. He has a lot to say about the lessons he took away from serving in the Clinton administration, where he was involved in President Clinton’s efforts at a two-state solution during the Oslo and Camp David processes. Rahm also served 4 terms in Congress, where he was a member of the House Democratic Leadership. He was President Obama’s chief of staff for the first two years of the Obama administration, before returning to Chicago to run for mayor, where he served for two terms. To read Rahm’s piece mentioned in the episode: https://japan-forward.com/lessons-from-israel-timely-for-japan/ Follow Rahm on X: https://x.com/USAmbJapan Register for Call me Back Live at the Streicker Center: https://streicker.nyc/events/tibon-senor

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0:00.0	Everybody talks about a diversity as a strength. It's only a strength if the foundation of unity is there.
0:06.4	We have lost the unifying to make the diversity work.
0:10.0	We are a diverse. I'm a former mayor of the city of Chicago. We had 147 languages spoken in our public school system.
0:15.1	Okay? You can only have that diversity be an asset if there's a unifying principle.
0:21.0	Let me give you another example. Our women's gymnastic team all they
0:25.3	won, all around. Everybody, oh look at the diversity and I agreed with it. It was beautiful, but you know
0:30.4	nobody's held up? Yes there was this beautiful mosaic of diversity
0:34.9	where they had an American flag wrapped around them.
0:37.2	So you could see diversity.
0:38.6	I saw the unity of representing a country.
0:41.2	Singularity.
0:42.3	We don't have that. China, Russia are betting on these
0:47.2	divisions and they play on them. They throw sand in them. It's 11. It's 11.30 p.m. on Thursday Thursday August 29th here in New York City.
1:05.0	It's 630 a.m. on Friday August 30th in Israel as Israelis start their day.
1:11.0	Before today's conversation, just one housekeeping note as I've
1:14.8	mentioned before we will be hosting a live call-me-back event at the striker
1:19.8	center in New York City on the evening of September 24th.
1:23.9	Our guest will be Amir Tibun, who is a journalist with Haaritz,
1:27.7	and who also has an extraordinary book coming out on that date
1:31.1	on the 24th about his October 7th day, his riveting and horrifying
1:37.6	story and then his observations and analysis of how Israel got to October 7th and what has happened since October 7th and where Israel goes from here.
1:48.2	We hope to see at the event.
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