Imagine if you will, a Muslim, an Arab, or an Iranian in the United States writing a post somewhere on a newsletter, or a particular newspaper, or online suggesting ways for Arabs and Iran to defend and counter Israel and its threat to their respective countries.
Imagine that this wonderful wordsmith suggested three options to choose for this challenging task.
The first: to launch a pre-emptive strike on Israel.
The second: to attack Israel’s nuclear facilities.
Zionut Israel-fanatics like Adler want Obama killed and hate him because he hasn’t out-Bibied Netanyahu so far.
The third: to consider ordering a secret service hit team to assassinate US President Barack Obama, and those after, so that eventually one is left with a candidate who will defend the region against the threat of Israel.
Such a brilliant scheme, wouldn’t you say. Totally fool-proof.
Enter stage right, Mr. Andrew Adler, the (former) owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, and his ingenious article calling for these three options.
His version, it must be noted, was for Israel to either launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran (a talent it has honed since 1947); or, to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities (akin to Israel’s bombing of Iraq’s Osirak Nuclear Research Facility in 1981 and beyond it’s current murder of a number of Iranian nuclear scientists), or to have Mossad assassinate Obama (cause he’s so gosh-darn anti-Israel).
All these exciting selections for the sake of the Zionist State’s safety and security.
When the article spread virally, unsurprisingly condemnations and uproar followed and thus Adler exited left. Abrahman Foxman, the ever-dramatic National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, said it best:
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. 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.
Courageously, Adler denied that he advocated Obama’s assassination, given that he did write: “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”.
Obama, as should be clear by now, has been consistently, persistently, and endlessly professing his undying love to Israel. The relationship we are told continually is “unbreakable”. The commitment is “iron-clad”. Don’t be surprised if he starts singing Is This Love during the obligatory AIPAC speech along the campaign trail. And yet, Zionut Israel-fanatics like Adler want Obama killed and hate him because he hasn’t out-Bibied Netanyahu so far.
Strikingly, the red line Adler dared to cross in the eyes of Foxman and others was not options one or two, where much destruction and death would devastate the entire region with millions hurt, displaced, or annihilated if any of these options were to occur. Pure outrage was not directed to Adler’s support for Israel’s violation of international law, as it has historically and continues to do so; nor was the torrent of venom released against the horrifying idea of a secret service agency lurking around killing people. Only when an American president becomes the target, is such a point ‘beyond the pale’, a suggestion that has ‘no place in fiction’, and an idea that has ‘no rationalization’.
It’s clear in Adler’s apology that he wasn’t that concerned on back-tracking options one or two, since no one was really bothered by it.
For those in the non-American president category (and indeed those beyond in the non-white, non-American, brownish variety), the silence says it all. When people are not batting an eye lash about the idea of war by Israel or the US and its consequences on Iran, the region, and millions of innocent lives, the platform for it to happen is practically all laid out.
Alder writes at the end of his article:
Another way of putting “three” into perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation, comprised of seven million…Jews, Christians and Arabs alike? You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.
“All options are on the table”
…Where have I heard that before?
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Does this rise to the level where Kabob-ers will actually go into their campus student governments and demand a boycott-Israel resolution?
Or are you waiting for Israel to annihilate a few thousand more people in Gaza and Lebanon first?
Posted by Boycott Israel | January 27, 2012, 2:31 pm