In a column published last week in his community paper, Andrew .B. Adler put forth three options on how to deal with those who don’t put Israeli interests ahead of their own. Lets jump to option three. “Three, give the go-ahead for US-based Mossad agents to take out a president
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In a column published last week in his community paper, Andrew .B. Adler put forth three options on how to deal with those who don’t put Israeli interests ahead of their own. Lets jump to option three. “Three, give the go-ahead for US-based Mossad agents to take out a president
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“Three, give the go-ahead for US-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice-president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies,”
“Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?“
“How far would you go to save a nation comprised of 7 million lives – Jews, Christians and Arabs alike? You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.“
Apparently, the piece wasn’t published online, an “anonymous tipster” uploaded the article and forwarded it to Gawker.com. Gawker contacted Mr.Adler, giving him an opportunity to explain his remarks.Here is the exchange.
A nervous Adler told me over the phone that he wasn’t advocating Obama’s assassination by Mossad agents. “Of course not,” he said.
gawker: But do you think Israel should consider it an option?
Adler: “No.”(g): But do you believe that Israel is in fact considering the option in its most inner circles?
(A): “No. Actually, no. I was hoping to make clear that it’s unspeakable—god forbid this would ever happen. I take it you’re quoting me?”(G): Yes.
(A): “Oh, boy.”
After being asked about the contradictions between the article and his statements over the phone, Adler asked for a few minutes, presumably, to give him time to come up with a plausible explanation for suggesting Israel assassinate the President of the United States. And he came up with a winner!
When I asked Adler why, if he didn’t advocate assassination and didn’t believe Israel was actually considering it, he wrote a column saying he believed that the option was “on the table,” he asked for a minute to compose himself and call me back. He did a few moments later, and said, “I wrote it to see what kind of reaction I was going to get from readers.”
And what was the reaction? “We’ve gotten a lot of calls and emails.”
Of course he has since apologized, however, that does not excuse what he wrote. He lent a voice to extremists who would love nothing more than having Barack Obama meet a horrific ending.
He sought reaction. That’s the best excuse he could come up with. Fine, here are some reactions.
The American Jewish Committee in Atlanta:
“While we acknowledge Mr. Adler’s apology, we are flabbergasted that he could ever say such a thing in the first place. How could he even conceive of such a twisted idea?” said Dov Wilker, director of AJC Atlanta. “Mr. Adler surely owes immediate apologies to President Obama, as well as to the State of Israel and his readership, the Atlanta Jewish community.”
Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League: “There is absolutely no excuse, no justification, no rationalization for this kind of rhetoric. It doesn’t even belong in fiction. These are irresponsible and extremist words. It is outrageous and beyond the pale. An apology cannot possibly repair the damage. Irresponsible rhetoric metastasizes into more dangerous rhetoric. The ideas expressed in Mr. Adler’s column reflect some of the extremist rhetoric that unfortunately exists — even in some segments of our community — that maliciously labels President Obama as an ‘enemy of the Jewish people.’ Mr. Adler’s lack of judgment as a publisher, editor and columnist raises serious questions as to whether he’s fit to run a newspaper.”
From Haaretz Jewish publisher is an idiot – but his hatred is shared by many.
Anyone who has spent any time talking to some of the more vociferous detractors of Obama, Jewish or otherwise, has inevitably encountered those nasty nutters, and they are many, who still believe he is a Muslim, who are utterly convinced that he wants to destroy Israel, and who seriously debate whether he is more like Ahmadinejad than Arafat or – and I heard this one with my own ears – more like Hitler than Haman.
Anyone who reads some of the opinion articles and blogs posted on the Internet by the more extreme Obama-hating writers and pundits – again, many of them Jews – cannot deny the wanton and inflammatory nature of much of their anti-Obama invective.
One wonders how many of today’s anti-Obama politicians and opinion-makers, the latter-day elders of yore, will be able to read Adler’s crazed counsel to Benjamin Netanyahu, and, may that day never come, take a good look in the mirror, wash their hands of the whole affair and declare with a clear conscience that their otherwise sharp and probing eyes didn’t see a thing.
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