Al Qaeda's American traitor, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, blasts Israel - and own Jewish relatives - in video
By James Gordon Meek
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda's American mouthpiece put out a new video Saturday to rant against President Obama, the Israeli prime minister - and even his own Jewish relatives.
Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the first American indicted for treason since 1952, echoed recent speeches by Al Qaeda leaders Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri by blaming Obama for Israel's winter incursion into the Gaza Strip.
In the video posted on jihadi Internet forums, Gadahn derided Obama's plea for peace between Jews and Muslims in his Jan. 20 inaugural address as "deceptive, false and sugarcoated talk."
But the California-raised traitor - who converted to Islam as a teen - saved his worst venom in the 35-minute Arabic screed for his Jewish family members.
"My grandfather was a Zionist ... and a prominent member of a number of Zionist hate organizations," explained Gadahn, who is believed to have written at least one of Bin Laden's speeches.
Gadahn's late paternal grandfather, Carl Pearlman, was an Anti-Defamation League board member in Santa Ana, Calif.
Gadahn, 31, said Pearlman encouraged him to visit Tel Aviv and gave him Bibi Netanyahu's book, "A Place Among the Nations."
But Gadahn said he rejected Judaism and Israeli citizenship because he had too much self-respect "to stand in the ranks of criminals and killers who have no morals, no mercy, no humanity and indeed no honor.
"Isn't it embarrassing and shameful enough for a person to carry the citizenship of America?" wondered the man who once tore up his U.S. passport on camera and has made threats against New York City.
"I didn't respond to my grandfather's call."
After converting to Islam, Gadahn moved to Pakistan and rose to become Al Qaeda's most prominent spokesman behind Bin Laden and Zawahiri.
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