Washington – Continuing his role as chief defender against charges that Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel isn’t sufficiently pro-Israel, New York Senator Chuck Schumer once again today came to the ex-senator’s defense.
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capitalnewyork.com (http://bit.ly/ZhqMlQ) is reporting Schumer spoke this morning at a breakfast in lower Manhattan about a conversation he had with Hagel about his previous references to a ‘Jewish lobby’ in America.
“He struck me as sincere, and you know, you have to be sitting there at the meeting obviously, but I also told him when he used the word ‘Jewish lobby,’ what it meant to Jewish people,” said Schumer.
“And I told him what a double standard is,” Schumer continued. “That Jewish people throughout the centuries have suffered a double standard. Everyone could be a farmer except Jewish people. Everyone could live in Moscow except Jewish people. I said, ‘When everyone else can lobby, but all of a sudden when those of us who are pro-Israel lobby, it’s a negative, that’s a double standard. And I’m sure you didn’t mean it, but it harkens to the old days.’ And he really, you know, he almost had tears in his eyes when he understood. So I believe he will be good.”
Schumer went on to note that no major Jewish groups have opposed Hagel’s nomination, and that Hagel’s main opposition is coming from the neo-cons.
“They resent Hagel’s apostasy on Iraq. you may remember–the neo-cons–pushed Iraq–and Hagel was one of the first Republicans to say Iraq wasn’t working. And he was right,” said Schumer.
Schumer finished, saying, “I think he’ll be nominated, he’ll be confirmed, and I think he’ll surprise you on the issue of Israel about how strong he is.”
“They resent Hagel’s apostasy on Iraq. you may remember—the neo-cons—pushed Iraq—and Hagel was one of the first Republicans to say Iraq wasn’t working. And he was right,” said Schumer.”.
Wow! There’s that word, again, “neo-cons”, used by anti-Semites such as Pat Buchanan, Chris Mathews, and Ron Paul to describe Republican Jews who “forced” George W. Bush to invade Iraq. Of course, the fact that VP Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, were all for invading Iraq, and they weren’t even Jewish, doesn’t matter. The anti-Semites have their code word for dirty, rotten Jew, and they’re running with it. And Chuck Schumer, good little puppy dog that he is, comes out of the kennel and says, “Go ahead, dump on the Jews, I’ve got your back!”
Hagel smears Jews, accusing us of manipulating US foreign policy, calls Israel an apartheid state, and associates himself with Islamists and internationalists (like anti-Semites Chas Freeman, who co-chairs the globalist Atlantic Council alongside Hagel). Schumer and the other American leftist Jews in Name Only are a shonda and are Jewish by fate, not Jewish by destiny (to use the lashon of the Republican gadol R’ Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, zt”l).
Schumer voted with the “neo-cons”. He no longer needs the frum vote to win, and he thinks he was promised majority leader by Obama.
A shame that for years we allowed him to speak at our Flatbush shul’s melave malka.
What is worse, he is giving his hecksher to Hagel.
Now I understand how the reform politicos like Schumer did the “sha shtill” while Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews in Europe.
What’s next – a picture of Hagel in Tallis and T’fillin?
Chuck, you are a disgrace!
Schumer is a total disgrace. We got to get him out of office. I had no
doubt he would be for Hagel. Why all of the sudden is Hagel doing
Tshuva. Why didn’t he feel this way for the last 10 years.
“He struck me as sincere . . .. ,” said Schumer. “And . . . he really, you know, he almost had tears in his eyes when he understood. So I believe he will be good.”
If this were a nominee of a Republican president, Senator Schumer would be loudly declaiming about the “confirmation conversion”. But this is a nominee of President Obama. Hagel could have said anything, and Schumer would vote for him.
Hagel will be confirmed. All we can do is pray to Hashem to protect Israel against all enemies.