Obama’s nominee to be the
new Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, is causing a lot of politicians and
Israel firsters to be upset.
Two comments Hagel made seem to focus the most hatred on him. One statement was, “I’m not an Israeli senator. I’m a United States senator.
Hagel
and Obama are no real threat to Israel and will never do anything meaningful to
put America’s interests above Israel’s interests.
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 to a party, not to Israel.” The second
statement the Israel firsters find offensive is, “The Jewish lobby intimidates
a lot of people. … I’ve always argued against some of the dumb things they do,
because I don’t think it’s in the interest of Israel.”
The first rule of
philosophy is to see things as they really are so we can arrive at the truth.
Objectively and honestly looking at Hagel’s first statement above shows Hagel
to be 100% correct. He was at the time of the statement (2006) a US senator and
not an Israeli senator. His statement that he supports Israel seems to be true
in that he voted for a war in which thousands of Americans and over a
hundred of thousand of Iraqis
were wounded and killed and which cost American tax payers to date well over $810 BILLION. The only
beneficiary of the Iraq war is the Jewish state of Israel. His oath of office
is to the Constitution of the United States and not to a president, a party or
to Israel. However, if he really truly did take his oath seriously he NEVER would have voted to start an
unnecessary war against Iraq.
His second statement is
factually wrong in that it is not “the Jewish lobby” but it is “the Israel lobby” that has US politicians from both parties
running scared. Not all Jews promote US politicians blindly supporting Israel
in its bloody aggression against its neighbors at the expense of Israel’s
neighbors and at the expense of Americans. His motivation for arguing against
“the dumb things” the Israel lobby does is NOT because he cares about America and Americans, but
because the dumb things the Israel lobby promotes he does not think are
in the best interests of Israel.
The worldjewishdaily.com
seems to think that Hagel’s chances of winning approval from the Senate rests
with the Jewish senator Chuck Schumer. Schumer is a rabid war-monger and Israel
firster who actually said on a New York Jewish radio program that he believes
he’s in the US Senate because God wants him there to be a protector of Israel!
Schumer also attacked the Palestinian people and said he wants to “strangle” them for voting the way they
did when they voted overwhelmingly in elections with international observers
for Hamas in Gaza.
It’s difficult to understand
why the Israel lobby and its US politicians would be worried about Hagel doing
anything meaningful which would not be putting Israel’s interests over and
above America’s interests. Hagel even has a fact sheet out which outlines his pro-Israel positions over
the years. And as this article points out, even Israel is okay with Hagel. These
facts should warn any thinking person that Hagel will not give any real
opposition to a US war against Israel’s foe, Iran. (For more on this read our
eBooklet The Danger
of Israel [for Kindle version click here].)
Expecting true opposition
and resistance to the kosher plutocracy to come from within the kosher system
is foolish. It’s similar to America’s revolutionary founders looking to tax
collectors and other government officials to help them free themselves from
government tyranny. It’s not going to happen. The solution to the problem will only be found in the people who are
the victims of the kosher plutocracy, the people who have their children
marched off to war for the benefit of Israel and the US politicians who serve
Israel, the people who are pushed to financial ruin while the politicians
continue to tax them to pay for more wars for Israel’s aggression and for
endless hand-outs to the Jewish state of Israel.