guardian.co.uk,
Chris McGreal, Friday 20 January 2012
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| Andrew Adler said he wrote the column on Obama to get a reaction from readers. Photograph: Shahar Azran/WireImage |
The owner
of a Jewish newspaper in Atlanta has said he deeply regrets writing a column
suggesting that Israel consider "a hit" on Barack Obama if he stands
in the way of the Jewish state defending itself.
Andrew
Adler told the Guardian he wrote the column in the weekly Atlanta Jewish Times
"to get a reaction" from the paper's readers.
"The
headline for the column was: 'What would you do?' That's what I wanted to
see," he said. "It's got like a Dr Phil reaction: what were you
thinking? I feel really bad it did that."
The column
asks readers to imagine that they are the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin
Netanyahu, confronting the threat posed by Hezbollah and Iran's nuclear
programme while also under pressure from a US president with an "Alice in
Wonderland" belief in diplomacy over force.
Adler lays
out what he says are the three options available to Netanyahu: attack Hezbollah
and Hamas; defy the US – which is willing to let "Israel take a lethal
bullet" – by striking against Iran's nuclear facilities; or a third
option.
"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," Adler wrote in a column that
appeared in print by not online.
"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?"
Adler went
on to ask: "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."
Adler said
he understood why readers might interpret his writing as suggesting that Israel
is seriously considering assassinating the US president but that is not what he
meant.
"No,
no, no. It's unfathomable, unthinkable," he said, adding: "I'm
definitely pro-Israel to the max."
Adler said
he intends to repudiate the column in the next edition of the paper.
"I've
put my pen in my mouth," he said. "I'm writing a retraction to the
column."
The Atlanta
Jewish Times was founded in 1925 as the Southern Israelite. Adler bought the
paper three years ago. It has a circulation of several thousand copies a week.
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