January 9, 2013

A Bad Pick for Secretary of Defense

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Photo Credit: Yori Yanover
He’s going to be confirmed. Sadly. Chuck Hagel who was nominated by the President to serve as his Secretary of Defense will eventually be confirmed by Congress for the job. This could in theory spell disaster for the State of Israel.
If you are Jewish or a supporter of Israel - unless you have been hiding under a rock somewhere you have probably heard by now that Hagel cannot under any reasonable interpretation of his past statements be considered a friend of the Jewish people. The most troubling of those statements is the following (from The Telegraph):
“[T]he Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here” and “I'm not an Israeli senator. I'm a United States senator.”

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