Alana Goodman’s report that Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel suggested Israel controlled the State Department in a question and answer session following a speech at Rutgers University is now the subject of considerable attention.
Hagel’s host–Hooshang Amirahmadi–should not simply be a background personality in the story, however. Amirahmadi, the founder and president of the American Iranian Council, is a well-known figure in Iranian circles. Soon after Hagel’s talk, Amirahmadi told Asr-i Iran (with a translation provided by Ali Alfoneh), “The problem of terrorism is a true myth. Iran has not been involved with any terrorist organization. Neither Hezbollah, nor Hamas are terrorist organizations….”
Hagel certainly has an odd sense of the company he keeps. Let us hope that U.S. national security will trump party loyalty after the Senate’s recess.
Yes, let us hope that U.S. national security will trump party loyalty after the Senate’s recess, but likely is that to happen? And does it help for the Republicans to conflate that which is Hagel-related, namely his views on Iran, Israel, and many policy issues, as well as his competence, with that which is not Hagel-related, that is Benghazi, in which he had no roll? Will the Administration refuse to answer more questions about Benghazi and will that keep Hagel's nomination from coming to a vote?
I suppose if Hagel fails to be confirmed, as should be the case, he can go back to blaming the "Jews" , and spending quality time with the Iranian Jihadists. Sure beats looking in the mirror for the true cause of his confirmation woes. Let's be honest-all the leading Jewish groups were willing to remain silent on this tin-pot Hitler as long as he could show some sign,some inkling, at the confirmation hearings that he was, in fact, a plausible nominee. He couldn't do it,and never could do it because his mind is poisoned by that oldest of hatreds.
more troubling than the idea of Chuck Hagel running the US military is why he was nominated in the first place. n nwhat does this say about Obama, that his #1 choice for secretary of defense was a bumbling Iran sympathizer with some paranoid ideas about "the Jewish Lobby"? that after Hagel's disastrous confirmation hearing, and the weeks of bad press and new revelations since, Obama is still 100% on board behind Hagel. n nwell…I guess what it says is what some of us have been saying for 5 long years: Obama is no friend of Israel's, and he's not that wild about America either.
And please do tell me what does American Jewry's persistently massive support (and the only white group to support him) for Obama no matter what he does say about them? Suicidal? Delusional? Suffering from a form of battered wife syndrome? Self-hating? No longer really Jewish? Not nearly as smart as their professional and IQ performance indicates? Other hypotheses welcome.
George Bush spoke to this group & sent it money. Google