Occams Razor applies here. Obama selected Hagel because they are sympatico where the “the jews” are concerned.
I'll file that as an interesting minority report .... you may be right at least in part, since Obama's continuing thrust in his foreign policy has been to disengage from Israel, throwing them to the wolves in slow-motion, while loudly protesting the opposite. I have no doubt he's working to re-create the Caliphate. If that Caliphate is to incorporate an intact Hijaz, then by implication Israel is to be destroyed.