Why can't these anti semites just get along like everyone else?
<sarcasm intentional>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2012/12/18/exclusive-adl-pans-possible-chuck-hagel-pick/
excerpt:
{
Abe Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, emails me from
overseas on the potential for Chuck Hagel to be picked as secretary of
Defense:
“Chuck Hagel would not be the first, second, or third choice for the
American Jewish community’s friends of Israel. His record relating to
Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship is, at best, disturbing, and
at worst, very troubling. The sentiments he’s expressed about the
Jewish lobby border on anti-Semitism in the genre of professors John
Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt and former president Jimmy Carter.”
Foxman’s criticism follows in the wake of a column by Bret Stephens
who documents Hagel’s insinuations about dual loyalty. Today Stephens
writes, “Prejudice—like cooking, wine-tasting and other consummations—
has an olfactory element. When Chuck Hagel, the former GOP senator
from Nebraska who is now a front-runner to be the next secretary of
Defense, carries on about how “the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of
people up here,” the odor is especially ripe.”
Hagel’s use of the phrase “the Jewish lobby” was not isolated, but it
was unique among elected officials outside the Pat Buchanan fringe and
would be unprecedented for a cabinet official. Stephens notes:
Mr. Hagel’s Jewish lobby remark was well in keeping with the broader
pattern of his thinking. “I’m a United States Senator, not an Israeli
Senator,” Mr. Hagel told retired U.S. diplomat Aaron David Miller in
2006. “I’m a United States Senator. I support Israel. But my first
interest is I take an oath of office to the Constitution of the United
States. Not to a president. Not a party. Not to Israel. If I go run
for Senate in Israel, I’ll do that.”
}