When I asked Adler why, if he didn‘t advocate assassination and didn‘t believe Israel was actually considering it, he wrote a column saying he believed that the option was „on the table,“ he asked for a minute to compose himself and call me back. He did a few moments later, and said, „I wrote it to see what kind of reaction I was going to get from readers.“

And what was the reaction? „We‘ve gotten a lot of calls and emails.“

Nothing from the Secret Service, though. Yet.