It is a story that didn't get much play in the press - but one wonders why not? The assassination was just one of a three prong suggestion on how Israel could deal with a nuclear armed Iran. We know the Secret Service investigated - but why wasn't this person taken into custody. What if he wasn't Jewish newspaper publisher but a Muslim publisher suggesting the same hit to benefit Iran?
Needless to say the publisher was roundly criticized. "Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, called Adler's words irresponsible, extremist and "beyond the pale. An apology cannot possibly repair the damage."
The publisher has resigned and has sold the paper but that doesn't repair the damage either. Pandora's box is opened. And see this frightening realization offered by Chemi Shalev, a U.S.-based foreign correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz:
"I know, and most of you know, that Adler's crazy and criminal suggestions are not the ranting of some loony-tune individual and were not taken out of thin air -- but are the inevitable result of the inordinate volume of repugnant venom that some of Obama's political rivals, Jews and non-Jews included, have been spewing for the last three years."
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