by Caroline Glick
Today, the estimable Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon reported another classic
Hagelian anti-Israel slur and libel. Back in 2003 he gave an interview
to his hometown paper saying that Israel "keep[s] the Palestinians caged
up like animals."
And of course, this is only
one of countless examples of Hagel's animus towards the Jewish state and
its Jewish supporters in the US. But AIPAC is silent.
As
I wrote before, I understand that AIPAC doesn't want to fight a fight
it can't win. But what fights will it be able to win with a president so
hostile to Israel that he appointed the most outspoken anti-Israel
senator since Chuck Percy to serve as Defense Secretary? What do they
think they will be able to get? A cut-off in aid to the PLO? A cut-off
in F-16 and M1A1 Abrams tanks transfers to Egypt? Further ineffective
sanctions against Iran? More military assistance to the IDF?
Israel is better off expanding its own defense industries than depending on Hagel for spare parts.
As to the US military, as David Horowitz wrote back in 1992,
the movement to assign women to frontline combat unit is not about
advancing women. It is about destroying the US military. The fact that
Obama didn't even need for Hagel to enter office before taking his first
swipe at the military shows just how grandiose his plans for gutting US
military capabilities in his second term are.
To
be clear, as a woman who served as an officer in the IDF for 5 and a
half years, and worked as an embedded reporter with an all male US
infantry unit in Iraq, I have to say that I don't think there is
anything inherently wrong with women serving in combat. But the purpose
of last week's decision wasn't about permitting women to fight on the
battlefield. They already do. It was about social engineering and
weakening the esprit d'corps of the US military. As Saul Alinsky taught
his followers the goal is never what you say it is. The goal is always
the revolution.
Delegitimizing and weakening
Israel is only one part of the "revolution." Israel will survive Obama
and Hagel and Kerry and Brennan.
But that
doesn't mean we and our supporters in the US should keep silent about
their hostility just because we know we can't block their appointments.
By pointing out their radicalism, we are at a minimum sending out the
necessary warning about what their future plans will likely involve. And
that is important, because the more they are criticized the weaker they
will feel.
Caroline Glick
Source: http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2013/01/classic-hagel.php
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