By Joe Conason
Columnist 

‘Most antagonistic’ toward Israel? That would be Ronald Reagan’s defense secretary

 

Last updated 1/17/2013 at 1:23pm



When Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina warned on national television over the weekend that Chuck Hagel “would be the most antagonistic secretary of defense toward the state of Israel in our nation’s history,” either his memory served him very poorly — or he was simply lying to smear his former Senate colleague. For whatever Hagel’s perspective on Mideast policy may be, it would be absurd to compare him with the secretary of defense whose hardline hostility toward Israel became notorious during the Reagan administration.

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