US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, the new friend of Israel
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, the new friend of Israel
06-12-2014 12:02 AM
With the announcement of US President Barack Obama on Friday that former Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will replace the current minister Chuck Hagel, who was forced to resign last week, US President seeks to pass ratified by the US Senate process before Day 6 of next January, the date of receipt ‘ the new Congress’ in order to avoid complications that it will present the majority of the Republic then all Obama’s efforts.
The Democratic Party will continue to control the Senate until the end of this year, Obama pays to contest time for Carter’s inauguration at the site prior to the new Senate.
The Democratic Party has lost the majority in the Senate, six seats in the recent midterm elections.
The current minister Chuck Hagel has been subjected to accusations of harsh ‘anti-Israel and anti-Semitism’ by his former colleagues in the Senate, thus paralyzing and Admah because he said once ‘I am a senator from the United States and not Israel’ which forced him to spend his time as a minister in attempts to dampen the atmosphere with his Israeli where built a better relationship between the Ministries of American and Israeli defense.
However, a reliable source told the reporter Jerusalem dot com ‘said Ashton Carter of Israel adults and lovable supporters of AIPAC and Israel’s supporters in Washington, especially the Senate, so the White House is confident that the Senate majority for the Republic is very close to the AIPAC would support his nomination even though they may want to Obama harassment to some extent ‘.
And source asserts that Carter was a voice supporter of Israel ‘behind the scenes and quietly balanced worth the world of physics without raises the lights, it is likely to take more challenging Iran’s nuclear agreement attitude’.
Carter was born in September 1954 in Philadelphia, and holds a PhD in physics from Yale University (in 1976) and served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs policies between 1993 and 1996. He also served as Under Secretary of the Department of Defense from October 2011 to September 2013, and was Head of Operations at the ministry, where he ran all operations of the Ministry of Defense is where the clock.
He was also responsible for a budget of $ 600 billion per year and 2.4 million employees of the Ministry of Defense civilians and military personnel.
The White House spokesman Gush Ernst Akj announced Thursday that Obama will announce his choice Friday, refusing to confirm or deny the information on Carter’s nomination, but he praised him and said, ‘It’s someone who has a thorough understanding of the functioning of the Ministry of Defence’, a reminder that the Senate unanimously approved the appointment in 2011.
Carter and presents himself as he works to reform the bureaucracy in the Pentagon, and he is known for his expert in advanced weapons and military budgets.
In the meantime, Hegel said that his resignation last week, were not due to ‘significant differences’ with President Obama, he said, denying that he was fired or resigned for mismanagement on the part of the White House.
Hegel said in his first public comments on his resignation that he decided to leave his post after being extracted from several talks with the President that the time has now come to make a change in the leadership of the Ministry of Defence.
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