Top Jewish organizational leaders met with Chuck Hagel, President
Obama's defense secretary nominee, and Vice President Joe Biden.
A four-sentence statement Monday issued by the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations described the Jan. 18
meeting in Washington as "an important opportunity for a serious and
thorough discussion of key issues of importance to all of us."
The statement, which also noted the presence at the meeting of the
leaders of the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and
the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, did not further
elaborate.
The meeting came days after after Hagel, a former Republican senator
from Nebraska, conferred with top Jewish Democrats and apologized for a
2006 comment in which he described the "Jewish lobby" as "intimidating"
and reassured them that despite his past skepticism of some sanctions on
Iran and wariness of a military strike to keep it from obtaining a
nuclear weapon, he was now on board with President Obama's postures on
those issues.
Hagel, in those conversations with Jewish Democrats, also said he was
a strong supporter of the U.S.-Israel relationship although he did not
withdraw past criticisms of Israel.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2%E2%80%A6
Monday 21 January 2013
Hagel meets with top Jewish leaders
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