I have no doubts former Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters (fired for anti-Semitic rants) and current Huffington Post writer, MJ Rosenberg, is telling the truth here:

I spent a couple of hours with Hagel a few years ago. Talked about Israel. Happily, he is lying today & knows it. He’ll be a good SeDef.

— MJ Rosenberg (@MJayRosenberg) January 31, 2013

Rosenberg also penned an op-ed for Al Jazeera cheering Hagel’s nomination.