December 14, 2012, - 3:17 pm
Chuck Hagel: Obama Defense Sec Choice is Very Pan-Arabist, Anti-Israel; Honored by Pro-Hezbo/HAMAS Grp
If you are against Muslims and anti-Israel cretins running the Pentagon, then you should be very concerned about Barack Obama’s reported choice for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel. And you should be very concerned that Republicans told the press that they will easily confirm Senator Hagel, which is sad and pathetic. Over the years, I’ve watched Hagel become a favored figure on the Arab Muslim lecture circuit. I’ve seen him speak at many organizations that openly support Hezbollah and HAMAS. And I’ve seen him viciously attack Israel to those Arab groups in a way only a Jew-hater can. There’s a reason–several of them–why Hagel was the keynote speaker at the 2007 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference, featuring a panoply of well known Israel-haters.
That’s in addition to the fact that Hagel voted against designating both Hezbollah–which murdered hundreds of Americans–and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorist groups, and he opposed sanctions against Iran. Chuck Hagel’s record was so bad that he was even publicly opposed by Ira Forman, the then-chief of the National Jewish Democratic Council and Obama’s campaign outreach person to Jews, when Obama named Hagel co-chairman of his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. (I know Ira, and at least he has the guts to do these things. You’d never see his counterpart, Matt Brooks–the calorically gifted head of the Republican Jewish Coalition–oppose anti-Israel Republicans. On the contrary, he embraces and honors them.)
As you know, John McCain ran for President several times. When he ran against then-Governor George W. Bush in 2000, I gave McCain kudos for refusing to appear at the pro-Hezbollah/HAMAS Arab American Institute’s (AAI) political conference in Dearbornistan (both George W. Bush and Al Gore sent slobbering Islamo-panderers to the confab). But his good friend, Senator Hagel, was a proud participant at the conference. The things he said about Jewish political power and Israel were the kind of things you’d hear at a Klan rally . . . or a mosque. And later on, as McCain was gearing to run for President again, he sent Hagel to the AAI event as his representative. Read the rest of this entry »
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