Israel Firster newspaper editor proposes assassination of Obama

[Watser?]

Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta's Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel's diverging views on the threat posed by Iran. Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran, or "order a hit" on Barack Obama. Either way, problem solved!

Newspaper Editor: Israel Should Consider Assassinating Obama

Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-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?

Another way of putting "three" in perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation comprised of seven million lives...Jews, Christians and Arabs alike?

You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.

[Watser?]

Called ATL Secret Service to ask if they were aware of Atlanta Jewish Times article & if they considered it threat. Weren't aware, are now.

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Let's see if they're sending this guy to Gitmo...

[livius drusus]

Unbelievable.

[erimir]

How delusional do you have to be to believe that this would help Israel?

[Janet]

I like the forcefully dictate bit. Like they are going to walk in like the mafia and tell Biden that they took the hit out on Obama and can do the same to him and he's just going to roll over. Why would anyone think that assassinating the president would make the United States help you?

[Nullifidian]

Originally Posted by erimir

How delusional do you have to be to believe that this would help Israel?

About as delusional as you have to be to believe that Obama is "unfriendly to Israel".

[vremya]

UPDATE: Adler has told JTA that he "regrets" the column and plans to publish an apology. Oh, and the Secret Service says it will "make all appropriate, investigative follow-up in regard to this matter," according to ABC News.

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by vremya

Oh, and the Secret Service says it will "make all appropriate, investigative follow-up in regard to this matter," according to ABC News.

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[The Lone Ranger]

Originally Posted by Nullifidian

About as delusional as you have to be to believe that Obama is "unfriendly to Israel".

Exactly.


I can't help but suspect that if the editor/owner of a newspaper aimed at Lebanese-Americans had published something like that, some serious men in dark suits would have been knocking on his door within hours of the issue hitting the newsstands.

[Watser?]

Adler has since issued a non-apology: “I very much regret it, I wish I hadn’t made reference to it at all,” he told the JTA. It is worth noting that Adler is a Chabadnik, i.e. a member of a religious faction which has already shown an unhealthy interest in assassinations. Harry Shapiro, a Chabadnik, was convicted of planting a pipe bomb in a synagogue visited by Shimon Peres in Jacksonville back in 1997. A leading Chabad rabbi in Israel, Dov Wolfa, has flirted (Hebrew) with the supporters of Yigal Amir, Rabin’s assassin. I think it is safe to assume that an Islamic movement with this sort of record would find itself under, shall we say, intense scrutiny by the authorities.

Now, no one would mistake me for a supporter of either the Netanyahu government or Israel’s out-of-control security establishment, but I am certain that had anyone suggested such a covert operation to Netanyahu, that person would be fired on the spot. And that even had Netanyahu entertained such an idea, the leadership of Mossad would submit their resignation rather than going along with the plan. What Adler wrote was a fantasy, unrelated to Israeli reality.

Which, alas, is true about much of what Jewish Americans think of Israel. However, Adler did prove a point, albeit not one he intended: He showed us that there are, in fact, American Jews who are “Israel-firsters”, that is, people who put the interests of Israel ahead of their own country. In Adler’s case, to the point of supporting the assassination of his own duly-elected president – which skirts very closely to treason.

The fact that there is a debate on this issue – that such people exist – is silly to the extreme and assumes we are people with no sense of history. To put it in one word: Pollard. In two: AIPAC espionage. But we seem to be having just such a debate.

U.S. publisher who called for Obama assassination proves ‘Israel-firsters’ exist

[curses]

My husband used to work for that "magazine". When he was there they were all about the anti-Carter sentiment. This is a new low for them.

[curses]

Oh hai you guyz, I really was only listing options, not calling a hit.
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