And the hits keep comin’

The Senate Armed Services Committee this afternoon approved Chuck
Hagel's nomination to be secretary of Defense on a party-line vote,
14-11. The nomination now goes to the full Senate for a final
confirmation vote.

– In August 2006, Hagel was one of only
12 Senators who refused to write the EU asking them to declare Hezbollah
a terrorist organization.

– In October 2000, Hagel was one of only 4 Senators who refused to sign a Senate letter in support of Israel.

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– In November 2001, Hagel was one of
only 11 Senators who refused to sign a letter urging President Bush not
to meet with the late Yassir Arafat until his forces ended the violence
against Israel.

– In December 2005, Hagel  was one of
only 27 who refused to sign a letter to President Bush to pressure the
Palestinian Authroity to ban terrorist groups from participating in
Palestinian legislative elections.

– In June 2004, Hagel refused to sign a letter urging President Bush to highlight Iran’s nuclear program at the G-8 summit.

From my book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America:

Like Brzezinski,
[Rosa] Brooks also indulged in the familiar anti-Semite’s complaint: that a few simple
criticisms of Israel got one slapped with accusations of…anti-Semitism.
(Neither, of course, seemed inclined to own up to how they had prejudged the
case and stacked the deck against Israel.) Brooks enunciated this complaint in
this way in 2006: “Publish something sharply critical of Israeli government
policies and you’ll find out. If you’re lucky, you’ll merely discover that
you’ve been uninvited to some dinner parties. If you’re less lucky, you’ll be
the subject of an all-out attack by neoconservative pundits and accused of
rabid anti-Semitism.”[i]

 Chuck Hagel

Former Senator
Chuck Hagel (R-NE) would probably have agreed with Brooks. According to the Jerusalem Post, he was “one of a handful
of senators who frequently didn’t sign AIPAC-backed letters related to Israel
and the peace process during his time in the Senate and opposed additional
sanctions on Iran.”

Apparently, like
Brooks, he has faced criticism for these anti-Israel stances – and has
complained that “the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people.”[ii]

Yet Hagel himself
doesn’t seem to have been particularly intimidated. In the Senate he amassed a
significant track record as one of a hardline hater of Israel who would not
affix his name even to the most innocuous pro-Israel initiative. When all but
four Senators signed a pro-Israel statement in 2000, Hagel was one of the
holdouts. The next year, he was again among the few Senators – eleven this time
– who refused to add their names to a statement urging George W. Bush not to
meet with Yaser Arafat as long as the Palestinian groups under his control
continued to pursue violence against Israel. In 2005, Hagel, along with 26
other senators, opposed a call to the Palestinian Authority to disqualify
terror groups from participating in elections. And when twelve senators wrote
to the European Union in 2006 asking that the EU join the U.S. in classifying
Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, Hagel was once again one of the few.[iii]

 Hagel wasn’t intimidated, and Barack
Hussein Obama wasn’t either. In late October 2009 he appointed Hagel co-chair
of his Intelligence Advisory Board.[iv] And in a
particularly piquant symbolic move, the appointment was announced at J Street’s
first annual conference – by Steve Clemons of George Soros’s New America
Foundation.[v]

And the effect of
all this showed in his policies, beginning almost immediately when he took
office.

It bodes ill for
Jews just how comfortable and at ease Obama obviously is with proud
anti-Semites and Israel haters. Obama has appointed all these people, but has
concealed their true natures. 

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Xavier823

11 years ago

It seems that old Chucky boy Hagel has received some very handsome donations from many Arab counties , especially from the bigoted and racist kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Of course you will never here this from the main stream media. Once again we see the toxic hand of the Arabs buying out politicians on both sides of the aisles

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mzungu writes

11 years ago

People like Chuck Hagel and Barack Obama have been known and judged from old times and long ago:
“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” – Holy Bible Luke 6:45
King David said “For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire, And the greedy man curses and spurns the LORD.” Psalm 10:3
King David’s daddy said “The foolishness of man ruins his way, And his heart rages against the LORD.” Proverbs 19:3
Liberals often harp at us Christians for judging others. They’re wrong. I can judge others but rather not me but ancient Hebrew scrolls through me. As a Christian I’m just a messenger looking out at the ‘weather’ telling you that Chuck Hagel has a personal problem that will play out against Israel and he is another choice failure.

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Fitna

11 years ago

And Obama hand-picked this anti-semitic neo-nazi fascist.
Funny how the left keeps silent on real nazis (while calling noble people like Bush a nazi), probably cause they come from within their ranks.

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Fred

11 years ago

Barry and Hagel both hate Jews and Israel. Very apparent. So Barry appointed Hagle but remember Barry is an ILLEGAL PRESIDENT so it really doesn’t matter. Nothing he does is legal.

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Chip Murray

11 years ago

HOW LONG??? http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/how-long-will-the-jews-snooze/

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