No boundaries in international protocol

The Israelis are known for breaking every international convention in their quest to silence those they perceive a threat to their dream of a Zionist bedspread on usurped Palestinian lands. In the past, they have carried out many assassinations of Arab and non-Arab figures sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

Deep within the bowels of the Mossad and the existing machinery that makes the Israeli government, there are also elements that believe that even heads of state should not be immune from their policy of selected target assassinations.

A perfect example of such well-hidden secrets came to light recently when the owner-publisher of the US-based Atlanta Jewish Times suggested that Israel may have considered that someday they would have to ‘order a hit’ on none other than the US president. The dastardly plan would be for the Israeli leadership to approve a covert plan for US-based Mossad agents to assassinate the sitting US president if he was seen to waver from total support to Israel in their deep-rooted quest for regional hegemony. With the US president out of the way, this would bring in the current vice-president to the top post, and allow him to push forward US policy that would assist the Zionist state ‘obliterate its enemies.’

In his column, Andrew Adler suggested that it was highly likely that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle would give deep-rooted US-based Mossad agents “the go-ahead to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel.” Adler wrote that “it was very likely that the idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles,” given the Israeli suspicions of Obama’s true intent on a balanced US foreign policy in the region.

Incredulous as it may sound, Adler’s assumptions that the Israeli government has considered such a scenario and would have no qualms about using its US-based agents to carry out the assassination orders may be very close to the truth.

Assassination bids

In a true set of events not unlike the scenario described by Adler in the Atlanta Jewish Times, back in 1991 the US Secret Service were warned of possible Israeli plans to assassinate the sitting US President, George H. Bush when he went to Madrid for the opening of the peace conference between the Israelis and the Arabs to be held that year. This came to light when in a 1992 column in the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, a former 11-term Republican Congressman from Illinois, Paul Findley elaborated on the heinous Israeli plan and how it was blown. Findley’s source, a former Mossad agent named Victor Ostrovsky revealed that he had received secret intelligence implying that “Mossad’s hatred of Bush, and support for Vice-President Dan Quayle, might lead to an attempt on the president’s life.” The US president had raised Israeli anger by pressuring Israel to stop its illegal colony expansion on confiscated Palestinian land or else risk the US withholding all loan guarantees. Quayle on the other hand was seen to be more sympathetic to Israeli territorial expansions, illegal as they were.

According to the Mossad agent Ostrovsky, the Mossad did not want a peace treaty on equal terms and wanted “to do everything possible to preserve a state of war between Israel and its neighbours, assassinating Bush, if necessary,” and that “a PR campaign was already underway in both Israel and the US to prepare public acceptance of Quayle as president.”

Alison Weir, president of the US-based Council for the National Interest, and the founder of the organisation If Americans Knew, writes, “In recent years a growing number of American peace activists have been intentionally killed, maimed, and injured by Israeli forces… All of this has been minimally reported in the US press.”
“While major news media from England to Israel to Australia covered the Jewish Times’ apparent endorsement of a possible Israeli assassination of a US president, the scandal has been largely missing from US media. Even Atlanta’s AP bureau inexplicably initially decided not to write a report on it, only finally sending out a story many days later.”

“Such news omissions concerning Israeli partisans are not rare. In 2004 a fanatic Israel loyalist wrote a letter saying that he was going to burn down Presbyterian churches while worshippers were inside. This grisly threat also received minimal media play.” This time it was about killing a US president and yet their media surrendered in silence to the powerful Zionist lobby!

Weir continues, “Despite Israeli violence against Americans [even while American taxpayers have given Israel far more of our tax money than to any other nation] American presidential candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, continue to vie over who is most devoted to Israel.” Now just imagine what would have happened had an Arab publisher suggested something remotely along the lines of ‘taking out the US president.’ An immediate session of the UN Security Council would have convened, the country sheltering such an individual would have their assets frozen, and Nato forces would be gearing up for a military assault on the country.

It is unfortunate that this uneven pandering to the whims of the Israelis is what drives US foreign policy to be so one-sided and biased against Arabs and Muslims in the region; while Israel’s silent and sinister expansion plans get obscured in the smokescreen of other conjured regional threats.

Tariq A. Al Maeena is a Saudi socio-political commentator. He lives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.