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April 23, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/chuck-hagel-visits-israel-gets-geography-lesson/2013/04/22/2a10e06a-ab59-11e2-8559-85e32b44d524_story.html

Chuck Hagel Visits Israel, Gets Geography Lesson

(Washington Post) Craig Whitlock - In his first visit to Israel as secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel took a one-hour, 40-minute tour of the northern half of the country Monday in an Israeli Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, flying from Tel Aviv to the Golan Heights before circling over Jerusalem's Old City. The main lesson of the flight was that Israel is a really small country with difficult-to-defend borders. A briefing book told the former Nebraska senator: "The State of Nebraska is nine times the size of the State of Israel."

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