a bunch of traitors. Their "support" for Israel is to ensure Jewish contributions, nothing else.

for being so self-serving & voting for obummah. You USA Jews think obommuh "is the one" who has improved this disgusting USA economy, then you are not only self-serving but also dumb & stupid. You will see how your lives will end up with your deceitfulness. (to the author of this column, you did a great job. I am also barking in the toilet over my fellow USA Jews)

Are far more than just his racism against Jews. He is alway homophobic and in the PAY of HAMAS. Also he has no experience running a large government organization. In short he has no qualifications whatsoever - that should be a huge red flag for ALL Senators

Why is it in the United States' interests to see a "two-state solution" (by the way, there already are two states; one is called Jordan and the other is called Israel. Why reward a terrorist rabble with a second state -- third, if you count Gaza?) and how can it possibly be in the United States' interests to see an Iran with nuclear weapons capability? Iran considers the United States to be the "Great Satan." By the way -- there were tons of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Israel warned the United States that Iraq was trucking them across the border into Syria. Now all those weapons reside in Syria. Does that make you feel all warm and fuzzy at night? What will happen should those weapons fall into the hands of terrorist elements who have no compunction about killing millions?

Its supporters of Israel like you that urged the USA to invade or should i say liberate Iraq. Bush ended the reign of Saddam Hussein resulting in a strengthened Iran which now threatens Israel. Hagel had the sense to oppose that war. It proved to be a fiasco costing hundreds of thousands of lives and hurting the best interests of Israel. The Middle East is not safer. Hagel is not anti Israel; neither is Obama. Many senior intelligence officials in a place called Israel opposed Netanyahu's policies on Iran. Are they anti Israel. In point of fact in his November 2012 trip to the UN Bibi actually endorsed Obama's Iran policies. fred lazin

The Republican Senators are not winning but doing their jobs according to the US Constitution whether a candidate from the Executive Branch should be confirmed or not. The democrats did the same and got rid of another Defense Minister suggested by the Republicans, Tower. According to the constitution the Senate should Not be a rubber stamp of the president. It is called Separation of powers and democracy. Hagel true intention is to weaken Israel -US alliance and the Senate who believes in the alliance as helpful to the US can question him on that. He also supports talking to Hizbalah and Iranian revolutionary guards who killed many Americans. When somebody is anti Israel they are always anti US.

Jews cannot let the anti-Semites let them feel paranoid that if they support the only Jewish state in the world , they will be accused and labels as ones with dual loyalty. That what Hagel tried to imply but under interrogation from Senator Graham he admitted he does not have a specific example of a senator or a dump thing senators were forced to do under so called Jewish lobby. Anti Semites for thousand of years tried to accuse the Jews of betrayal as an excuse for killing and hating Jews/. Jews share the same history and thousand of years of persecution. We need to stick with each other.

You need a dose of reality. Senator Hagel voted for the invasion of Iraq. His oppostion started only AFTER the invasion, following public opinion. Israel had nothing to do with the US decision to invade Iraq. Good or bad, the invasion came at the request of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Obama is considered anti-Israeli for his actions. In his first term he attacked and delegitimized Israel, including lying and breaking solemn promises and guarantees, all while ignoring critical American interests elsewhere. As for Hagel, many American feel he is not qualified because of his support for Hezbolla, the organization that killed 241 USMC peace keepers.

It is nothing to do with a religion or secularism,it's everything to do with a warped minds,suicidal Jews/Kapos.

This past Israeli government was out of control and damaging to the Jews of the world and the entire West. Someone who will put the breaks on settlement construction and force-start peace negotiations is welcomed by billions around the world. Good luck Hagel!

Making pretend and stabbing fellow Jews in the back wont help the leftist Jews.

The difference between Democrats who are Jewish, and Republicans who are Jewish, is that being Democrat is the religion of Jewish Democrats, and being Jewish is the religion of the Jewish Republicans. American liberal Jews wish that Israel would go away, because Israel's outright "Jewishness" discomfits them. American conservative Jews sujpport Israel, and celebrate its Jewishness. It is a much simpler thing to anguish over a Holocaust that has already occurred, than it is to face up to one that is threatened, and act to prevent it.

some American-jews put America ahead of israel.

Hagel's confirmation has absolutely nothing to with the religion or ethnicity of the Senators involved... His confirmation should be denied because it is not in the best interests of the US. Period.

Reading this article and the responses it becomes a clear why did your tribe got kicked out from 109 countries and places since 250 AD ,...

WMD transporting out of Iraq you say? Sounds as though Iraq had the legit ring of a 1st-class threat to Israel & overall stability of the ME, no? Remember, while you & other Israelis have been busy raging about Iran, and sneering about our role in Iraq, it was that Saddam that was dropping SCUDs on your heads while Israelis were running in circles. As I recall, you & your fellow Israelis were delighted back then to see that Iraqi regime and blood threat to Israel toppled into the sand by the US, and Saddam served up a Texas necktie. Bear that in mind when you start your usual fuss about the US, and what it should be doing in the ME.

Israeli's were running around in circles because we urged them not to get involved. We should have urged Israel to do what we would do if someone fired scuds at us. If Israel would have done the job those WMD's would not be in Syria right now. Unfortunately they left the job up to us and instead of looking out for our interests and Israel's we were looking out for Haliburton and Dick Cheney. Once Saddam was out of the picture we should have gotten out of the picture also.

Unlike Queen Esther whose Jewish identity was central to the core of her very being, many American Jews have come to identify themselves first as liberals, and Jews only by accident of birth.

Let me make something clear. While American Jews, along with all other diaspora Jews, are largely supportive of Israel, which they show through political activism and financial donations, this is too far. This is basically asking them to act as Israel's agent in the halls of power, and exposing themselves to the backlash of being viewed as a disloyal fifth column.

The only reason Israelis were "running in circles" was because the Bush pressed Israel not to strike back. And Israel wasn't all happy to see Saddam go. Sure he was a threat, but he was a military counterweight to the bigger threat, Iran.

I know many Jews who think Obama is a “transformational” president and look at blankly at me when I speak of his beyond-belief spending or seeming detachment from security issues. My feeling is similar to what you allude to re the German Jews, that the most of the Jews here have thrown in their lot with a worldview that is at best cool to Israel. I found, by the way, that the last person who inquired was odd, unfamiliar. That was tamius striatus or clevertheo.

The Frightwing tail trying to wag the American dog again. Its all partisan politics, everyone knows that Hagel is the best man for the job. Continued uncritical Republican support of land grabbing, crop burning, mosque desecration, hate graffiti, orchard uprooting is NOT what Israel needs.

Is it any surprise that so many Israelis cannot identify with Reform and liberal American Jews, who on one hand want to force their 'streams' on unwilling Israelis and on the other hand want to stab Israel in the back to please President Obama. As in the past, when American Jews are faced with a challenge, it is G-d fearing Christians who save the day for Israel.

Israel was mentioned 178 times in Hagel's hearings. And Afghanistan, where American troops are fighting and dying? 27 times. Enough is enough. Israel is not the center of the universe, despite what this author thinks. If you live, breathe, and obsess over Israel 24/7, then go live there. The same goes for a Polish-American who puts Poland first or a Chinese-American or anyone else. Stop demanding that American Jews put Israel before America.

Far left liberals first, socialists second, Jews a distant third.

This women live in the US, but her loyalty is to Israel. This is the fifth colomn of the US. Her faher was a war criminal and a mamber of the Irgun which comited crimes against Humanity inn Palestine. and now she wants to lucture Democrats. I gues with alast name like this what to expect

Even with Hagel's soft treatment by the Democrats on the committee, he still looked awkward, ill informed, and frankly, unqualified. Essentially with the exception of FOX news, next to nothing was reported by the US media. Imagine if it had been Palin? Anybody see a Saturday Night Live skit on HAGEL? Pathetic!

It was supposed to be; 'yes mom' herd's responses it becomes clear ,...

I thought that Hagel was to be made Defense Secretary of U S of A.Now I stand corrected know he is being considered for Israeli defense minister.It is very shameful that Jewish democrats did not stand up for Israe in the American senatel