Adam Kredo reports that Chuck Hagel’s anti-Israel animosity was obvious well before his career in Congress. While heading up the USO, he clashed with Jewish leaders over a USO port in Haifa:
Hagel, who served as president and CEO of the World USO from 1987 to 1990, expressed intense opposition to the USO Haifa Center during a tumultuous 1989 meeting with Jewish leaders, according to multiple sources involved in the fight to keep the post open.
“He said to me, ‘Let the Jews pay for it’,” said Marsha Halteman, director for military and law enforcement programs at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), which led the battle to keep USO Haifa operational. …
“He essentially told us that if we wanted to keep the USO [in Haifa] open—and when I say ‘we’, he meant ‘the Jews’—he said the Jews could pay for it,” said Halteman, who recalled being taken aback by the comment.
“I told him at the time that I found his comments to be anti-Semitic,” she said. “He was playing into that dual loyalty thing.”
Eventually, a Jewish member of the USO board helped bring in money to keep it open, reports Kredo. But the fact that Hagel went out of his way to oppose the Israeli USO port–over objections from the pro-Israel community, the Navy, and Congress–is part of a pattern. His response about the “Jews” paying for it, because it was in Israel, is also revealing. While Hagel’s supporters will likely argue that this happened back in the late 1980s, that hardly means it should be discounted. In fact, it shows how deep-seated Hagel’s hostility toward the Jewish state has been.
When it comes to Barak Obama's administration policies affecting Israel the American Jewish community and its official institutions will continue to refuse to see or hear evil.
Good management for a broke organization. Some Jews did pay for it.
This smear post is self-refuting: "and when I say ‘we’, he meant ‘the Jews’
And when he said, in so many words, "Let the Jews pay for it," did he mean "we"?
Justin Raimondo is a known quantity and as good a judge of antsemitism as is David Duke.
Absoluterly, Raimondo is a well-known Israel hater and anti-semite.
Good Lord. Is this the same stuff you shout at other passengers on the subway before they haul your unmedicated self off to the Happy House? And why do they keep releasing you?
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Here’s the big secret. It’s a question though. How come Chuck Hagel & Obama ain’t vulnerable to Israel as those exposed endangered 100 Senators & 435 Representatives at the Hill? Are you ready for the golden answer which Hollywood made many movies outta it. Zionists ain’t got nude compromising poses posing nude photos of Chuck Hagel & Obama with preteen queer kibitz boys in King David Hotel to Wikileak. Everyone must remember the good ol’ Joe Biden’s hysterically unpleasant trip to Tel Aviv during Israel Mea culpa. Use your imagination to finish. How about that?
"Vulnerable to Israel" nHa ha ha ha ha…. Please. nIsraelis are not even allowed to chase away Palis b/c of the USSA. nMoonbat.
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Interesting. Where did the Israelis get the bleach, though? Was it from the CIA under Tenet, or did Wolfowitz arrange for American Bleach to be exported to Israel with the IRS's connivance, while Michael Chertoff closed an eye?
with these cats it's always Niagara Falls and a "slowly I turned" moment.
LOL, that was a great bit! not as good as Who's on First, but THAT was in a league of its own (pun intended).
so when you eat your mom regurgitates the worms for you directly into your mouth or do you cock your eyes and look at it first on your plate hopping from foot to foot. n nthough of course we are pleased to guest host this weeks Muslim Brotherhood sermon from Cairo's Grand Mosque.
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You speak English?
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Despite many centuries of persecution, the one thing that Jews have generally had operating in their favor is the stupidity and ignorance of the anti-Semites.You one again prove the validity of this axiom
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Here’s the big secret. It’s a question though. How come Chuck Hagel & Obama ain’t vulnerable to Israel as those exposed endangered 100 Senators & 435 Representatives at the Hill? Are you ready for the golden answer which Hollywood made many movies outta it. Zionists ain’t got nude compromising poses posing nude photos of Chuck Hagel & Obama with preteen queer kibitz boys in King David Hotel to Wikileak. Everyone must remember the good ol’ Joe Biden’s hysterically unpleasant trip to Tel Aviv during Israel Mea culpa. Use your imagination to finish. How about that? nWhy Chuck Hagel Should Tell Obama to Go to Hell? nCome on girls! Homophobia is stooopid Redherring. Chuck Hagel got larger phallus than LGBT ever queered in their daydreams. Israelis will be digging their own graves if they rally to conspire to assassinate Chuck Hagel’s character as they did to Charles Freeman. Israeli in their own eyes, believe that they are the-chosen-ones, Americans are fools and the Donuthole is Gaza, they can get away with crime. In Arabspringers eyes Israel ain’t a thing but East European Urban Rejects & IRS fugitives who hijacked Judaism as hostage to extort Jews worldwide and took refuge in Auschwitz called Palestine. Henry Kissinger is Jew, said: “give those kibitzers 10 years to die”. George Soros is Jew too established Soros Fund for any Jew who will defect and flee Israel. The game is over boys! Back to Chuck Hagel; Quit nagging about USO like Tel Aviv hookers when ain’t pimped to rich parties. Chuck Hagel ain’t Anti-Semitic enough to crow about. Here’s really something that Israeli loath you to publish. Chuck Hagel is a Godsend magnet to unbury Israel rig and spam world headlines. Chuck Hagel escorted & schooled Obama during 2008 Presidential Campaign to Israel. Chuck Hagel was right when he said to Potus-to-be: “if you get to White House. Israeli Bleached Nu2721 ggas will need 4 years to recover”. Bleached Nu2721 ggas are more racist than whites simply because they ain’t wasps. Their White House Raw Model is John Wayne. Israelis need an idiot like George Bush who hired a Jewish Dumbu2721sses as George Tenet for CIA, Michael Chertoff for Homeland Security, Paul Wolfowitz for Dy Assistant Secretary of Defense and many Menajahtwa Muthafukahuh to fu2721ck America. Though George Bush the kid and George Bush the father gave Israel nothing compared to Egypt but Israelis are Deranged Megalomaniac Egomaniacs. Kudos. n
Thanks for reposting. It gives me another chance to mark you down. n
excellent response, MM. n nsometimes these trolls' comments are too nasty to let go. but I've been trying another tack recently: just ignoring them. I mean, these people look at thumbs-down votes as a badge of honor. they love to get us Joos and Joo-lovers all het up, and I don't want to give them the satisfaction! n nbut as you must know, it's pointless to engage them. they're not interested in talking, they're provocateurs who aren't smart enough to know the word 'provocateur'. they dislike and mistrust Jews, and they often mask that as an innocent questioning of Israel's policy decisions. that dog isn't hunting anymore; anti-Zionism IS anti-Semitism. n n
In your synopsis, The Israelis should just roll over and play dead. nChuck Hagel is not an anti semite, he is a JEW HATER, just like you. nWho cares, though? nIsrael has an everlasting covenant with God, they will endure, America is going down, so bla bla bla, rant on and on about a land 6k miles away. nWhat I cant stand about you Jew haters is you always worry about Israel first over America.
Nothing like Hagel to bring out the craziest anti-Semites…
Mrs. Goodmann is a LIAR. Hagel literally didn't say that, but rather that was attributed to him by a mind-reader. You are a lying SHILL! n nHagel was excellent in his balanced criticism of the Iraq War, when it was brave to do so. He's been open to making cuts in the $1T/yr "defense" budget, unlike all other Republicans and most Democrats. Like Kerry, Hagel is an excellent choice and will be part of the successful legacy of Obama nominations. Let the shrill neo-con traitors scream all they want. n nYES WE CAN.
So, eventually the Jews paid for it?
Good God what drivel
Alana, I am not so sure this particular incident is – itself – anti-Semitic. n nCharities are always leveraging money — and always pressuring people to give more. Seeking Jewish donors by leveraging something of personal interest to the donors (as appears to be what happened here) may be ethically questionable but not necessarily anti-Semitic. n nAnd do not forget that the Israeli government — like any government — gains an inherent benefit from large numbers of young Americans having fond memories of a fun vacation in their country — young Americans become older Americans and having fond memories of the particular country tend to go back there as older and more prosperous Americans, spending much desired tourist dollars in the process. Not to mention the fact that having actually been there and met folks who live there, they actually know something about the country which is always helpful to the country (any country). n nBesides, Hafia is a far cry from some place like Diego Garcia (where our B-52s are based). I'm no fan of Hagel, but you haven't made your case here Alana — UMass said the same thing to the Marching Band — "if you want a building, let your alumni pay for it" — and they did….
Obviously, you don't understand an anti-semitic comment when you see it.
0r you are seeing one in places where one truly isn't.
Sorry, Ed-Ed,I can't agree. He did not say 'Let the Isrea;lis pay for it' or 'Let the veterans pay for it', he said the Jews. Your UMass analogy fails.
OK. Let's say that everything that exists in Haifa — beach, sun, etc. — were to exist in Ireland or Poland. Let's say that the Irish or Polish governments wanted to have a USO center in their "fun place" for all the reasons that Israel did (and this is not attacking Israel but unless the Israeli Government is *completely* stupid, they had to understand that they were going to get some benefits out of this, how this was a really good thing for them. n nSo taking the analogy of Ireland or Poland — how is it different to say "let the Irish" or "Polish pay for it:"? I sincerely ask, what is the difference? n nI think that the "let the Jews pay for it" comment was asinine, it is a larger part of why I am no longer a member of the Republican Party. But there is a dimensional difference between asinine and anti-Semitic and the point I am making here is that no one has yet made the case for anti-Semitism. i am not saying that the schmuck named Hagel isn't anti-Semitic beyond all redemption, I am just not seeing it here…
Looking only at its name, the "Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs" would appear to be an organization that clearly identifies itself as being of a Jewish nature — the word "Jewish" serving to define what type of institute this is. I am not saying this is good or bad, only that as an entity, JINSA appears to identify itself (not its employees, but itself) as being Jewish. n nAnd it was JISNA which "…led the battle to keep USO Haifa operational…" An organization which clearly identifies itself as being Jewish is the lead advocate for keeping this facility open. I'm no fan of Hagel, but I do try to be fair and hence ask if the line below should instead be read with "we" being the people advocating for USO Haifa — if JISNA wished to have him spend money he didn't have, then JISNA needed to go find him the money. n n —> “He essentially told us that if we wanted to keep the USO [in Haifa] n —> open—and when I say ‘we’, he meant ‘the Jews’—he said the Jews n —> could pay for it, n nThe problem I am having with saying that this is antiSemitic is that the "we", the people fighting to keep USO Haifa open, had already clearly identified themselves as Jewish. Ms. Goodman points out that it was "Jewish leaders" whom Hagel "clashed with" and adds that it was "a Jewish member of the USO board" that brought in the money necessary to keep it open. n
It's Democrats embedded into the GOP like this subhuman pig Chuck Hagel that did the GOP in.
This is the same issue I had with Hussain Ibish and the story of the Petra. The Petra was a ship filled with Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust that had made it to then-Palestine and the British were going to send it back to Europe. A Jewish activist sought to snap the propeller shaft with explosives but instead blew the whole bottom off the boat causing it to sink with great loss of life — CAMERA produced a lot of documentation for me that (a) the ship was already in very bad shape, (b) he really didn't know much about explosives and used way more than he should have, and (c) very much regretted what happened. n nThe facts didn't matter to Ibish, whose anti-Semitic diatribes included how this was an example of the Zionists murdering Jews to make a political point or something — his circular logic defied comprehension at times. Yes, I argued, someone identified with the Zionist cause had done something that caused the loss of several hundred lives — but facts matter and one can't just make knee-jerk conclusions without looking at the facts. n nHence: Was Hagel's decision to not fund USO Haifa objectively defensible relative to the mission of the USO and its budget? I don't know how one would rate the various expenditures of the USO but how would Haifa rate relative to everything else? n nRemember that this was in 1989 – the Soviet Union had collapsed and our biggest problem was an oil spill in Alaska — this was a couple years before any of the problems in the Middle East and people were talking about "an end to history." We were bringing our troops HOME and hence the USO would be needed stateside. n nIt would be one thing if Hagel had refused (or sought to refuse) to have the USO Haifa facility even after the money was raised for it — or if this was the most cost-effective USO facility and he instead sought to spend limited funds on less effective ones elsewhere. But I don't see that. n nFacts matter and just because Haifa is in Israel doesn't automatically make a reluctance to spend money on a facility there evidence of a deep-seated hostility to the Jewish state.