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2ndAmForComputers

(3,527 posts)
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 03:12 PM Jan 2013

Israel Vows To Use Veto Power If Chuck Hagel Confirmed As U.S. Secretary Of Defense

JERUSALEM—Top-ranking government officials in Jerusalem confirmed Tuesday that Israel would exercise its longstanding, constitutionally granted veto power over American policy if U.S. lawmakers confirmed retired congressman Chuck Hagel as the United States’ next Secretary of Defense. “In light of Mr. Hagel’s worrying remarks on Israeli-Palestinian relations and questionable classification of Israeli interests as ‘the Jewish lobby,’ we consider him a highly inappropriate choice for Defense Secretary who stands far out of line with our national priorities, and therefore we are prepared to swiftly and resolutely use our official veto power over this U.S. action,” said Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev of the legal maneuver that the small Middle Eastern nation has employed to block U.S. Cabinet nominees, U.S. legislation, U.S. international relations, and U.S. domestic policy over 1,400 times in its 64-year history. “Because congress does not possess the necessary nine-tenths majority to override an Israeli veto, they’ll have no choice but to head back to the drawing board and provide a Defense Secretary whom we find more suitable.” Sources confirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sent the White House a list of three individuals the Israeli leader considered appropriate to head the American military from which U.S. President Barack Obama could choose.


http://www.theonion.com/articles/israel-vows-to-use-veto-power-if-chuck-hagel-confi,30824/
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Israel Vows To Use Veto Power If Chuck Hagel Confirmed As U.S. Secretary Of Defense (Original Post) 2ndAmForComputers Jan 2013 OP
Read the first few words and I grew upset riverbendviewgal Jan 2013 #1
Me too Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2013 #3
Yes - I thought wtf dipsydoodle Jan 2013 #5
Caught me for a moment, too. nt awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #12
Yeah me too davidpdx Jan 2013 #19
Hell, I knew that was Borowitz or the Onion, but some will believe that... It's that crazy here. freshwest Jan 2013 #2
"but some will believe that" Yup. Behind the Aegis Jan 2013 #14
The is The Onion... and should be noted as such in the title, imo. Lionessa Jan 2013 #4
Nah, where would be the fun in that? 2ndAmForComputers Jan 2013 #7
haha nice fake news story The Onion xxxsdesdexxx Jan 2013 #6
lol! Whisp Jan 2013 #8
Uh oh, the Onion better watch out! Scootaloo Jan 2013 #9
Haha, duzy. You should tell his mother that joke about him being overzealous against antisemitism. Kurska Jan 2013 #13
We agree on Mr. Wiesenthal Scootaloo Jan 2013 #15
+1. I wonder if Mr. Kurska thinks these screwed up priorities can't be criticized or mocked. 2ndAmForComputers Jan 2013 #21
crap i alreqdy called 911 for the friggen heart attack.... then find out it's the onion..n/t oldhippydude Jan 2013 #10
In politics, sarcasm is often difficult to discern from the truth. jimmyzvoice Jan 2013 #11
Love that Onion! Larrymoe Curlyshemp Jan 2013 #16
It'd be funny if it weren't true. Drunken Irishman Jan 2013 #17
In a sad way it is davidpdx Jan 2013 #20
The Onion Hits One Out Of The Park, Yet Again. (nt) Paladin Jan 2013 #18
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
9. Uh oh, the Onion better watch out!
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 05:29 PM
Jan 2013

It'll appear on the 2013 Simon Wiesenthal Center list of "top antisemites" with this article! It'll be #2, way, way ahead of antisemitic political parties in Europe!

Wear a helmet, The Onion, you're going to need it!

Kurska

(5,739 posts)
13. Haha, duzy. You should tell his mother that joke about him being overzealous against antisemitism.
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 04:20 AM
Jan 2013

Oh I forgot, his mother was murdered by antisemites in cold blood along with majority of his extended family.

How embarrassing on my part.



Simon Wiesenthal is a great man who suffered incredible human tragedy and did everything he could to bring justice to that horrible situation. You're free to mock him as you're free to mock anyone, but I wonder what you have done that is even close to comparable to helping bring a man partly responsible for 6 million murders to justice?

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
15. We agree on Mr. Wiesenthal
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 05:23 AM
Jan 2013

The organization that bears his name is not the man, however. When ink on paper accusing Netanyahu of wringing votes out of the recent assault on Gaza is worse than organizations that torch synagogues, deface cemeteries, assault Jews, and call for "roundup lists" of Jews in that nation - as the SWC recently decided is indeed the case - you have to sit back and realize that maybe politics has a louder voice than purpose in that organization.

oldhippydude

(2,514 posts)
10. crap i alreqdy called 911 for the friggen heart attack.... then find out it's the onion..n/t
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 06:12 PM
Jan 2013

how would Bibi do it through his usual ambassador Sheldon Adelson

jimmyzvoice

(159 posts)
11. In politics, sarcasm is often difficult to discern from the truth.
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 06:20 PM
Jan 2013

Rachel Maddow has pointed this out on numerous occasions. She has demonstrated how even those who are the butt of the joke will believe it.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
20. In a sad way it is
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 09:57 AM
Jan 2013

There are a number of Senators and Congresspeople who will vote the way they are told to. If the filibuster reform isn't passed I think they could scrape up 41 votes to block his nomination in the Senate.

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