The Washington Free Beacon reports that Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel said Israel is on its way to becoming an apartheid state at a speech at Rutgers in 2010. Interestingly it was also at Rutgers, in 2007, that Hagel reportedly called the State Department an adjunct of the Israeli foreign ministry -- comments he now disowns and claims no recollection of having made.
But here's the thing: It's interesting that different people keep on reporting having heard similar (anti-Israel) remarks from Hagel. It's a little bit like when Bill Clinton was running for President in 1992. All these reports...











Hagel: Israel is Headed Toward Apartheid?!