US Jewish paper's column on assassinating the president to "preserve Israel's existence" catches Sec - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- The U.S. Secret Service is looking into a controversial column by an Atlanta Jewish newspaper publisher that mulled the assassination of an American president. Andrew Adler, owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, wrote a January 13 column about the threat of Iran to Israel. He posed three options for the Jewish state to counter the Iranian regime. [B]One of them called for a "hit on a president in order to preserve Israel's existence."[/B] [B]"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." [/B] U.S. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie told CNN Saturday, "We are aware of it. We are taking the appropriate investigative steps." Adler could not be reached for comment, but the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a wire service for Jewish newspapers in North America, quoted Adler on Friday as saying "I very much regret it. I wish I hadn't made reference to it at all." Adler -- who said he's gotten a lot of flak for the column -- said he would issue an apology in the next edition of the weekly newspaper, the JTA reported. [B]The column, entitled "What would you do?" doesn't mention President Barack Obama's name, but U.S. Jewish groups that strongly denounced the column read the words as a reference to Obama himself.[/B] The column also refers to the administration's "never ending 'Alice in Wonderland' belief that diplomacy is the answer," an apparent dig at the Obama White House's foreign policy efforts at dialogue with such countries as Iran. "The suggestion by anyone, in this case a Jewish newspaper publisher, that Israel should consider assassinating President Obama is shocking beyond belief," said Dov Wilker, director of 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 Wilker. "Mr. Adler surely owes immediate apologies to President Obama, as well as to the State of Israel and his readership, the Atlanta Jewish community." The White House declined to comment Saturday on the column. Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said Adler's "lack of judgment as a publisher, editor and columnist raises serious questions as to whether he's fit to run a newspaper." [B]"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.[/B] "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,'" Foxman said. Simon Wiesenthal Center associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper called the remarks "irresponsible and reprehensible" and said they "must be publicly condemned by Jewish leaders across the ideological and political spectrum." [B]"We take small comfort from the apology — what a shanda!" Cooper said, using the Yiddish word for something shameful or scandalous.[/B] JTA also quoted Ophir Aviran, the Israeli consul-general in Atlanta as saying he was "appalled at this deranged and morally repugnant assertion." The Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly focused on the Atlanta Jewish community, was founded in 1925 as the Southern Israelite.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/21/us/jewish-president-threat/index.html?hpt=hp_t3[/url]

Crazies gonna craze.

nuke israel

Right, like the jewish need someone to keep on going, they can stay alive on their own.

[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;34330415]Right, like the jewish need someone to keep on going, they can stay alive on their own.[/QUOTE] No they cannot. They would be annihilated without the backing of the US.

[QUOTE=Sickle;34330529]No they cannot. They would be annihilated without the backing of the US.[/QUOTE] Yea, if Iran decided to attack them. [editline]21st January 2012[/editline] Iran, Lebanon, and the government in Gaza are pretty much the only powers that would like to see Israel destroyed.

I have a hard time understanding this, beyond the obvious craziness. Why does the USA have some kind of moral obligation to do Israel's bidding?

[QUOTE=KingPariah;34330596]I have a hard time understanding this, beyond the obvious craziness. Why does the USA have some kind of moral obligation to do Israel's bidding?[/QUOTE] Because there is a very pro-zionist movement in the United States. It isn't hard to find people who believe that a Jewish state should exist.

I've got nothing against Jews. But Israel is really a rabid dog that needs to be put down, because sooner or later it's going to turn around and bite the hand that feeds it -The USA. Because it may not matter to the U.S. government if they put brown people on the other side of the planet in concentration camps and destroy their homes, but they're getting too cocky for America's own good.

I think we need to just stop supporting Israel when it does stupid shit. I'm not against an Israeli state, but I am against an apartheid state.

I'd be completely unsurprised if there already is a Mossad-based contingency in place, should the US ever drop support for Israel.

It's just some columnist, who gives a fuck. Though, if this did reflect the entitled attitudes of the Israeli government, maybe we'd finally be willing to stop giving them money.

[QUOTE=Sickle;34330529]No they cannot. They would be annihilated without the backing of the US.[/QUOTE] We didn't help them in '67, nor was their any American intervention to help them in '48. History shows that Israel can handle itself when needed.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;34331112]We didn't help them in '67, nor was their any American intervention to help them in '48. History shows that Israel can handle itself when needed.[/QUOTE] By American backing, I mean this; [IMG]http://5493-planetmc.voxcdn.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1142/money_659350.jpg[/IMG]

I think it'd be wonderful if the US aligned itself with Russia. Just imagine, The US and Russia holding hands.

Tinfoils gonna Tinfoil.

Kill an allied country's leader to get them to help you? [i]This just might be crazy enough to work.[/i]

[QUOTE=Laferio;34331296]I think it'd be wonderful if the US aligned itself with Russia. Just imagine, The US and Russia holding hands.[/QUOTE]And doing what? Skipping through fields of daisies?

[QUOTE=archangel125;34330707]I'd be completely unsurprised if there already is a Mossad-based contingency in place, should the US ever drop support for Israel.[/QUOTE] There's mossad cells in pretty much every 1st world country. [editline]dsa[/editline] I like my automerge, thanks.

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Does Ron Paul support Israel, or no?

[QUOTE=gra;34330281]nuke israel[/QUOTE] It's almost starting to seem nowadays that a holocaust would be justified. Israel has turned into the very monster that it was created to protect the Jewish people from.

[QUOTE=sltungle;34333908]It's almost starting to seem nowadays that a holocaust would be justified. Israel has turned into the very monster that it was created to protect the Jewish people from.[/QUOTE] Israel reflects on the entirely of judaism as much as Iran reflects on the entirely of islam. (not all that much)

[QUOTE=ewitwins;34333709]Does Ron Paul support Israel, or no?[/QUOTE] From what I've heard supports Israel's existence but thinks the Palestinians have been given a raw deal.

[QUOTE=sltungle;34333908]It's almost starting to seem nowadays that a holocaust would be justified. Israel has turned into the very monster that it was created to protect the Jewish people from.[/QUOTE]Wow, that's an absolutely horrible thing to say. That's like saying we just need to kill everyone in Iran because their leaders are crazy.

[QUOTE=sltungle;34333908]It's almost starting to seem nowadays that a holocaust would be justified. Israel has turned into the very monster that it was created to protect the Jewish people from.[/QUOTE] Why the fuck would you even say something that utterly... [B]Retarded[/B] That's the only word I can think of. *edit* Let me rephrase. That has to be one of the stupidest, most ill-conceived statements I have EVER heard.

ISRAEL NOBODY LIKES YOU TAKE THE HINT

[QUOTE=notxmania;34333991]Israel reflects on the entirely of judaism as much as Iran reflects on the entirely of islam. (not all that much)[/QUOTE] I never said it did. It's ISRAEL that's crazy, not the Jewish people in general. Hence why I was replying to a comment on nuking Israel (although that'd be a little far, MAD and such). [editline]22nd January 2012[/editline] Also try to distinguish between 'a holocaust' and 'The Holocaust' - they're TWO very different things.

They're both very bad things and neither of them make what you said at all justified.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;34334426]They're both very bad things and neither of them make what you said at all justified.[/QUOTE] If I said, "we should go to war with Israel," would it be more justified? In the end the exact same thing happens - people die. A lot of guilty people die, and unfortunately, so do a lot of innocent people. Yet people on here every day say stuff like that; nobody disagrees with 'war', that's justifiable, apparently.