Opinion Editorials, February 2012

Have Israel's Inner Circles Discussed Assassinating President Obama?

By Alan Hart

Redress, Al-Jazeerah, CCUN, February 6, 2012

Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel’s stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.

One man who apparently thinks Israel’s “inner circles” have discussed assassinating President Barack Obama is Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times. (By the time this article of mine is posted will he be the former owner and publisher?)

In his weekly newspaper Adler listed three options for Israel “to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons”. (Never mind that, unlike Israel, Iran does not possess nuclear weapons and that the latest assessment of Israel’s intelligence community – an usually honest assessment – is that Iran has not yet taken a decision to go nuclear for weapons).

Option 1, according to what Adler wrote, “is to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hamas and Hezbollah”.

Option 2 “is to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities”.

Option 3 “is to 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”.

To make sure his readers got the message, Adler added this:

Yes, you read “three correctly”. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If you 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?”

Adler has since apologized for what he wrote. “I very much regret it,” he told the Jewish Telegraph Agency.

That was not enough to prevent an avalanche of American Jewish condemnation of him and his article.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) in Atlanta declared that his proposals were “shocking beyond belief”. Dov Wilker, Director of AJC Atlanta, said:

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? He surely owes immediate apologies to President Obama, as well as to the State of Israel and his readership, the Atlanta Jewish community.

But the biggest blast of condemnation came from Abe Foxman who, as National Director of the so-called “Anti-Defamation League”, leads the Zionist campaign to smear all who criticize Israel as anti-Semites. He said:

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.

I have two thoughts to offer Mr Foxman.

The first is that what is happening in America on the Republican side of the fence has about it the smell of what happened in Israel in the countdown to the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin by a Zionist fanatic. What do I mean?

There is today general agreement, even in Israel I think, that Rabin’s assassin was driven at least in part by an atmosphere of hatred for Rabin that was created by his political enemies led by Binyamin Netanyahu. With the exception of Ron Paul, the Republicans who want to be president are creating an atmosphere of contempt for if not hatred of Obama on the grounds that he is “too hard on Israel (what a joke!) and not tough enough with its enemies”. By obvious implication the Obama of Republican campaign rhetoric is or could be a threat to Israel’s existence.

The second thought I have to offer Mr Foxman is this. The answer to Wilker’s question of how Adler “could conceive such a twisted idea” is simple. He is brainwashed by Zionist propaganda.

As for my headline question, the answer is another question. Who knows?

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