This is from me taking notes from a Ralph Schoenmann interview. I am not sure if stuff this is old news to most of you, but some of you might find it useful.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JP...
In an interview with Ma'ariv, Emanuel's father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son's appointment would be good for Israel. "Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," he was quoted as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980...
No, the definitive Rahm Emanuel story takes place in Little Rock, Ark., in the heady days after Bill Clinton was first elected President.
It was there that Emanuel, then Clinton's chief fund-raiser, repaired with George Stephanopoulos, Mandy Grunwald and other aides to Doe's, the campaign hangout. Revenge was heavy in the air as the group discussed the enemies - Democrats, Republicans, members of the press - who wronged them during the 1992 campaign. Clifford Jackson, the ex-friend of the President and peddler of the Clinton draft-dodging stories, was high on the list. So was William Donald Schaefer, then the Governor of Maryland and a Democrat who endorsed George Bush. Nathan Landow, the fund-raiser who backed the candidacy of Paul Tsongas, made it, too.
Suddenly Emanuel grabbed his steak knife and, as those who were there remember it, shouted out the name of another enemy, lifted the knife, then brought it down with full force into the table.
''Dead!'' he screamed.
The group immediately joined in the cathartic release: ''Nat Landow! Dead! Cliff Jackson! Dead! Bill Schaefer! Dead!''
This is more speculative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjygwAHIg8M
It is of a Lebanese journalist accusing Rahm Emanuel as being an agent of the Mossad. He did fight for the IDF during the Gulf War though.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/rahm-ema...
His father was part of the Irgun: