You may have noticed that prominent foreign policy voices like Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski have started the arduous work of trying to convince people that Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel is really pro-Israel. Writing at Commentary, Jonathan Tobin throws cold water on the attempt and on those trying to pull it off.
Let’s first dispense with the disingenuous nature of the defense of Hagel as being a mainstream backer of Israel. During his time in the Senate, the outspoken Nebraskan made no secret of the fact that he did not wish to be seen as part of the bipartisan consensus on Israel. That was the whole point behind his refusal to sign letters on anti-Semitism and terrorism that virtually every other member of the Senate supported. It was also the whole point behind his now-famous rant recorded by Aaron David Miller in which he bragged that unlike his colleagues he was one politician who wasn’t intimidated by the “Jewish lobby.”
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