Israel Policy Forum is shocked and appalled by the column published in the Atlanta Jewish Times by its owner and publisher Andrew Adler calling for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to 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 obl
In an ideal world, if we were writing this up as a scenario we would say let’s put this all on hold, and everyone stays away happily and nothing changes for the worse, and we pick it up perhaps when everyone is stronger. But status quos are not status quos and people know that. They either get better – or more commonly – they actually get worse because they are left neglected. I fear that this status quo, over the next 10 or 11 months if there isn’t some very significant policy activity, will deteriorate into violence.
former Washington Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 4:51pm
Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-NY) had some strong words about Israeli policies at today's hearing of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, which he chairs.
According to the JTA, Ackerman said, "that he was not trying to draw a moral equivalence between Israeli hard-liners and Palestinian terrorists, 'but they are all part of the same destructive dynamic.' "
