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Rahm Emanuel served in the Israeli military - a direct violation of statues that disqualify anyone who has served in a foreign military from serving in any US administration

I believe he claimed he was exempt saying he served in a position with a medical unit

Sounds much like the 0pansy situation

Wikipedia says; During the 1991 Gulf War, Emanuel volunteered with the Israel Defense Forces as a civilian helping to maintain equipment.

I had read it before but forgot the details. Even thought that’s where his finger got cut off but it was at Arby’s..

Rahm Emanuel served in the Israeli military - a direct violation of statues that disqualify anyone who has served in a foreign military from serving in any US administration

I believe he claimed he was exempt saying he served in a position with a medical unit

Sounds much like the 0pansy situation

He was not IN the IDF, he was volunteering and attached to an IDF unit.
Some of the myths that surround Emanuel: Some people charged that Emanuel was an Israeli citizen or a dual U.S.-Israeli national (he is neither, he was born in Chicago in 1959); or, they alleged that he served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), losing his finger confronting a Syrian tank during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon (he did not serve in the IDF, and lost his finger in a freak accident while working as a teenager in an Arby’s restaurant). A few accused Emanuel of skipping U.S. military service to join the IDF in 1991 (also not true — in the midst of the 1991 Gulf War, while U.S. forces were manning Patriot missile batteries in Israel and the Arab Gulf, Emanuel volunteered for a few weeks, as a civilian, doing maintenance on Israeli vehicles).