Obama soft on anti-Semitism?

The Israeli government is making a point of staying out of the debate over potential US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, but the government is said to be 'worried' about it.

“Because of his statements in the past, and his stance toward Israel,
we are worried,” Reuven Rivlin, the speaker of the Israeli parliament
and a member of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, told The Associated Press. But,
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