In Zionist history, November 29 is a very problematic day.
On the one hand, the UN officially recognized the right of the Jewish people to establish a Jewish state. Yes, a "Jewish" state (so all you liberals who are upset that Israel adopted a law defining Israel as a "Jewish democratic state" can relax now).
On the other hand, the decision mandated a severe partition of the historic Jewish homeland which way back in 1922-23 was mapped out as including territory on both banks of the Jordan River. Israel lost historic areas and the loss endangered the survival of the state by drawing ridiculous borders, borders that never came into being because the Arabs, local and foreign, refused to recognize those lines and invaded the country leading to Armistice boundaries.
And now, it has another significance: Rah Emanuel's date of birth is November 29th, 1959.
Will he, too, be good-and-bad news?
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