Nadene Goldfoot
The senators who will be voting might relent after they return to Washington. The vote will probably nominate Chuck Hagel. Only 15 Republican Senators are asking Obama to withdraw his name from nomination. Their concerns center around the Benghazi, Libya fiasco in which 4 Americans were killed; one being the US ambassador. Another accusation is that he has been too lenient on Iran. Miracles are in short supply. A few such as Senator Ted Cruz still oppose the confirmation as Secretary of Defense. With all the negatives abounding, how is it possible for a man so unsuitable for this job to even be nominated?
In today's Oregonian, the PolitiFact section's headline is "No sign of Iran celebrating Hagel defense nomination." I suppose this is to show the public that if Iran isn't celebrating his nomination, that this means they fear him and he will be tough on them. Wrong. They're smart enough to know this. People should realize that their newspapers are government owned and will reflect the will of this mentally unstable government.
If anyone believes that Iran's zeal to develop uranium is for medical purposes only will believe in flying carpets, too. Iran has threatened Israel so much and has called them so many outlandish names that you know they are serious. Just look at their charters. On page A7 of today's paper, a teeny item titled Iran Nuclear, says that UN inspectors recently found 200 advanced machines fully or partially installed at their main uranium enrichment site. This confirms the accounts that Tehran has begun a major upgrade to be used for making atomic arms. You see, they are getting around this action because international law allows using it for scientific and medical purposes. But knowing the government, you know what their real goal is.
Chuck Hagel will be in charge of defense of the USA and will be affecting the defense of Israel. As a Republican Senator from Nebraska, his attitudes do not reflect the present Republican views. John McCain surprises me in backing down so quickly. Chuck is reflecting far more of the Democrats, and I am sadder to think that anyone would take his positions. Just look at a few of the attitudes he reflects.
1. Hagel commented that Israel is responsible for violating virtually every United Nations resolutions since 1967. This is factually inaccurate.
2. Hagel’s advocacy of negotiations with the terrorist organization Hamas, it is morally obtuse.
3. He tried to close the USO's Haifa retreat from 1987-1990, a place popular with US sailors. 45,000 had visited this port (so much like Portland) in 1990. His comment was, "Let the Jews pay for it!."
4. Only Hagel abandoned Russia's Jews. He wouldn't give support in 1999 urging Boris Yeltsin to take action against anti-Semitism. Only he wouldn't sign a letter all other senators signed.
5. Refused to sign a Senate letter supporting Israel during Yasser Arafat's terrorist Intifada in 2000. He was one of 4 that refused to sign. 96 Senators signed.
6. He said that the State Department is the adjunct to Israel's foreign minister's office. That is surely a nasty statement. He's saying they are attached! Never mind that they may be sharing the same values. Because they might be in agreement with many things that he isn't, he has become most nasty and really-this shows his true colors about Israel.
7. Saying nasty comments about AIPAC. such as, "The Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here on Capitol Hill." He said this to Aaron David Miller in 2008 and was printed in the New York Post. This is another anti-Semitic comment. It's inferring that Jews have such power as to intimate people. Nonsense. Again, we do have shared values. AIPAC people are Americans.
8. Commenting that because someone is Jewish, he is getting good reviews. A secretary of defense shouldn't be on the religious affiliation of an American who participates in foreign policy debates. I would hope that in this country you would have to be a good debater to win a debate and not just because you're Jewish. Do I detect a little jealousy here?
9 I'M A UNITED STATES SENATOR. I'M NOT AN ISRAELI SENATOR." This statement of Hagel's reflects a chip on the shoulder and an attitude. In other words, we could not possibly be on the same side. He has also strongly implied that some of the other senators have more loyalty to Israel than to the USA.
10. Prominent Jewish Nebraskans get the cold shoulder from Hagel. He didn't return any of their phone calls, said Gary Javitch. He had always had callbacks before, even as a turn-down but Hagel wasn't running again so in his last year in office could afford to ignore certain people. Carol Katzman, former editor of the Omaha Jewish Press found him most unresponsive to work with. His office wouldn't respond. He and his office were dismissive. He's been the only one in Nebraska that has treated the Jewish community in this manner and they feel that he doesn't give a damn about any of their concerns or of them. Since they are Jewish, he snubs them.
Each of our 50 states gets only 2 Senators. Today the Republicans have 45 seats while the Democrats have 53 with the leader seat being from Nebraska, Harry Reid. 51 votes are needed to pass a vote.
Nebraskan Jews have a right to be heard just like the other Nebraskans. Nebraska is smaller than Oregon in population. As of July 1, 2012, they had only 1,855,525 people. Oregon had 3,899,353. Nebraska is the 37th out of 50 in size while Oregon was the 27th in size. There are from 6,100 to 7,200 Jews who live in Nebraska. The population has been declining by 10% in the last 3 decades. Most live in Omaha which has 4 synagogues, a Jewish community center and a mikveh. Lincoln, Nebraska has 2 synagogues. Most likely they are not the wheat growers but the merchants. Jews in Nebraska make up only 0.3% of the population; not enough to bother with, evidently for Hagel. Jews in Oregon make up a whopping 1.1.% of the population.
Now, if this is how he has treated Jews in his own state, besides all the attitudes and deeds he has already displayed about Jews and Israel, we have a good idea of what to expect from this Secretary of Defense. Our antennae are more sensitive to these things than other people's. We've experienced it through the ages.
The 100 senators have other axes to grind with this man. How is it that they might give up so easily in placing this man in our government's cabinet without a fight? Why is Obama being so adamant and why did he ever pick him in the first place? Aren't people vetted before they get on his list?
Resource: Oregonian Newspaper 2/22/13 page A2, and A7.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0213/murdock.php3#.USex8B2OTqE Chuck Hagel's Greatest Hits by Deroy Murdock
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/21/republican-senators-call-on-obama-to-withdraw-hagel-nomination/
http://spectator.org/blog/2013/02/21/why-hagels-position-on-israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14643.html Nebraska
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usjewpop.html Oregon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2012
http://www.reid.senate.gov/
The senators who will be voting might relent after they return to Washington. The vote will probably nominate Chuck Hagel. Only 15 Republican Senators are asking Obama to withdraw his name from nomination. Their concerns center around the Benghazi, Libya fiasco in which 4 Americans were killed; one being the US ambassador. Another accusation is that he has been too lenient on Iran. Miracles are in short supply. A few such as Senator Ted Cruz still oppose the confirmation as Secretary of Defense. With all the negatives abounding, how is it possible for a man so unsuitable for this job to even be nominated?
In today's Oregonian, the PolitiFact section's headline is "No sign of Iran celebrating Hagel defense nomination." I suppose this is to show the public that if Iran isn't celebrating his nomination, that this means they fear him and he will be tough on them. Wrong. They're smart enough to know this. People should realize that their newspapers are government owned and will reflect the will of this mentally unstable government.
If anyone believes that Iran's zeal to develop uranium is for medical purposes only will believe in flying carpets, too. Iran has threatened Israel so much and has called them so many outlandish names that you know they are serious. Just look at their charters. On page A7 of today's paper, a teeny item titled Iran Nuclear, says that UN inspectors recently found 200 advanced machines fully or partially installed at their main uranium enrichment site. This confirms the accounts that Tehran has begun a major upgrade to be used for making atomic arms. You see, they are getting around this action because international law allows using it for scientific and medical purposes. But knowing the government, you know what their real goal is.
Chuck Hagel will be in charge of defense of the USA and will be affecting the defense of Israel. As a Republican Senator from Nebraska, his attitudes do not reflect the present Republican views. John McCain surprises me in backing down so quickly. Chuck is reflecting far more of the Democrats, and I am sadder to think that anyone would take his positions. Just look at a few of the attitudes he reflects.
1. Hagel commented that Israel is responsible for violating virtually every United Nations resolutions since 1967. This is factually inaccurate.
2. Hagel’s advocacy of negotiations with the terrorist organization Hamas, it is morally obtuse.
3. He tried to close the USO's Haifa retreat from 1987-1990, a place popular with US sailors. 45,000 had visited this port (so much like Portland) in 1990. His comment was, "Let the Jews pay for it!."
4. Only Hagel abandoned Russia's Jews. He wouldn't give support in 1999 urging Boris Yeltsin to take action against anti-Semitism. Only he wouldn't sign a letter all other senators signed.
5. Refused to sign a Senate letter supporting Israel during Yasser Arafat's terrorist Intifada in 2000. He was one of 4 that refused to sign. 96 Senators signed.
6. He said that the State Department is the adjunct to Israel's foreign minister's office. That is surely a nasty statement. He's saying they are attached! Never mind that they may be sharing the same values. Because they might be in agreement with many things that he isn't, he has become most nasty and really-this shows his true colors about Israel.
7. Saying nasty comments about AIPAC. such as, "The Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here on Capitol Hill." He said this to Aaron David Miller in 2008 and was printed in the New York Post. This is another anti-Semitic comment. It's inferring that Jews have such power as to intimate people. Nonsense. Again, we do have shared values. AIPAC people are Americans.
8. Commenting that because someone is Jewish, he is getting good reviews. A secretary of defense shouldn't be on the religious affiliation of an American who participates in foreign policy debates. I would hope that in this country you would have to be a good debater to win a debate and not just because you're Jewish. Do I detect a little jealousy here?
9 I'M A UNITED STATES SENATOR. I'M NOT AN ISRAELI SENATOR." This statement of Hagel's reflects a chip on the shoulder and an attitude. In other words, we could not possibly be on the same side. He has also strongly implied that some of the other senators have more loyalty to Israel than to the USA.
10. Prominent Jewish Nebraskans get the cold shoulder from Hagel. He didn't return any of their phone calls, said Gary Javitch. He had always had callbacks before, even as a turn-down but Hagel wasn't running again so in his last year in office could afford to ignore certain people. Carol Katzman, former editor of the Omaha Jewish Press found him most unresponsive to work with. His office wouldn't respond. He and his office were dismissive. He's been the only one in Nebraska that has treated the Jewish community in this manner and they feel that he doesn't give a damn about any of their concerns or of them. Since they are Jewish, he snubs them.
Each of our 50 states gets only 2 Senators. Today the Republicans have 45 seats while the Democrats have 53 with the leader seat being from Nebraska, Harry Reid. 51 votes are needed to pass a vote.
Nebraskan Jews have a right to be heard just like the other Nebraskans. Nebraska is smaller than Oregon in population. As of July 1, 2012, they had only 1,855,525 people. Oregon had 3,899,353. Nebraska is the 37th out of 50 in size while Oregon was the 27th in size. There are from 6,100 to 7,200 Jews who live in Nebraska. The population has been declining by 10% in the last 3 decades. Most live in Omaha which has 4 synagogues, a Jewish community center and a mikveh. Lincoln, Nebraska has 2 synagogues. Most likely they are not the wheat growers but the merchants. Jews in Nebraska make up only 0.3% of the population; not enough to bother with, evidently for Hagel. Jews in Oregon make up a whopping 1.1.% of the population.
Now, if this is how he has treated Jews in his own state, besides all the attitudes and deeds he has already displayed about Jews and Israel, we have a good idea of what to expect from this Secretary of Defense. Our antennae are more sensitive to these things than other people's. We've experienced it through the ages.
The 100 senators have other axes to grind with this man. How is it that they might give up so easily in placing this man in our government's cabinet without a fight? Why is Obama being so adamant and why did he ever pick him in the first place? Aren't people vetted before they get on his list?
Resource: Oregonian Newspaper 2/22/13 page A2, and A7.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0213/murdock.php3#.USex8B2OTqE Chuck Hagel's Greatest Hits by Deroy Murdock
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/21/republican-senators-call-on-obama-to-withdraw-hagel-nomination/
http://spectator.org/blog/2013/02/21/why-hagels-position-on-israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14643.html Nebraska
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usjewpop.html Oregon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2012
http://www.reid.senate.gov/
1 comment:
Many of the senators who signed the letter have been among Hagel's most vocal opponents. They included James Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate armed services panel, and five other Republican members of that committee - Lindsey Graham, Roger Wicker, David Vitter, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.
The other nine were Senators John Cornyn, Patrick Toomey, Marco Rubio, Daniel Coats, Ron Johnson, James Risch, John Barrasso, Tom Coburn and Tim Scott.
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