[Peace-discuss] at Daily Kos: J Street Pushes Back on Neocon Bid to "Swift Boat" Chuck Hagel Nomination as Defense Secretary

[Robert Naiman]

The Obama-hating Neocon Right is trying to Swift Boat the expected
nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense, by making up a
fantasy scare story that Hagel, former U.S. Senator from Nebraska,
long-respected moderate and thoughtful voice on foreign policy, and
decorated Vietnam combat veteran, is "anti-Israel." One would like to
be able to dismiss this stuff as the ranting of people for whom no
amount of warmongering can ever be too much. But such Swift Boat
campaigns have worked in the past, regardless of the facts.

In times like these, don't you wish there were some Washington,
DC-based Jewish-branded organization, which represented the pro-peace
values and interests of the majority of Americans and the majority of
American Jews, and which would push back against this kind of
nonsense?

Blessed are Thou, Lord our God, King of the Universe. J Street is in the house.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/19/1172099/-J-Street-Pushes-Back-on-Neocon-Bid-to-Swift-Boat-Chuck-Hagel-Nomination-as-Defense-Secretary

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org