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It was as plain as it was horrific.

Over there at Newsmax (where, full disclosure, I am a contributor) was this headline: “Cops Probe Manifesto Linked to D.C. Shooting Suspect.”

Over at Fox, this was the banner, written following the daily presser held by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “Trump ‘outraged’ over deadly DC shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers, Leavitt says.”

The Fox story reported:

President Donald Trump is “saddened and outraged” over the “brutal murder” of two Israeli embassy staff members who were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, the White House said Thursday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt remembered the victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a couple who were set to be engaged during a press briefing.

“The evil of anti-Semitism must be eradicated from our society,” Leavitt said, adding that the Department of Justice will prosecute the perpetrator “to the fullest extent of the law.”

The suspect has been identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, authorities have said. He has been taken into custody.

Leavitt continued: “Hatred has no place in the United States of America under President Donald Trump. Everyone here at the white House is praying for the victims, friends and families during this unimaginable time.”

In fact, similar headlines were to be found all over the American media, with more in various foreign outlets as well.

But make no mistake. While the shooting was outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, the real target in all this was not just Israel — it was America.

The hard fact here is that if Israel did not exist, the target would still be America. America: The real “Great Satan” in the eyes of anti-Western zealots. (RELATED: Political Zealotry, Like Psychopathy, Can Allow One to Murder Without Qualm)

From the moment of 9/11 until this day, as you read this, America, and the larger Western world along with it, are the real targets behind all the “Free Palestine” obsession. (RELATED: ‘Pro-Palestine’ Is a Cover for Anti-American)

The obsessed followers of this movement can be found anywhere around the globe. This time around, the suspected attacker is one Elias Rodriguez from, yes, America’s very own Chicago.

The Fox headline reports: “Suspect Elias Rodriguez allegedly told witness ‘I did this for Gaza’ before shouting pro-Palestinian slogans.”

Newsmax reported this of the aforementioned manifesto:

The FBI is aware of and police are investigating, the authenticity of an anti-Israel manifesto that preceded the shooting deaths of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, the New York Post reported.

The suspect in the murders, Elias Rodriguez, allegedly blasted out the 900-word manifesto bearing his name online, according to the report. It was dated May 20.

In short, the hatred for Israel is not limited to Israel. Without question, America itself is the real target that looms over Israel and the decidedly antisemitic war on Jews that is now to be found infecting, among other places, no less than the college campuses of America’s once honorable universities. (RELATED: Trump Is the Only One Taking Antisemitism Seriously)

Without question, one can believe that a majority of Americans do not support what happened this week in Washington, any more than they supported 9/11.

The real problem now is what to do about all of this? How is it to be stopped? How is this vile antisemitism to be kept from infecting various sectors of American life, not to mention the antisemitic poison instigating violence on American shores, like that we have just witnessed? And witnessed this time on no less than the streets of our nation’s capital.

In the long ago of America’s initial travels into space, when the American mission to the moon — Apollo 13 — had an explosion on board the Apollo capsule, history records the pilot of the command module radioed back to NASA headquarters in Houston: “Ah, Houston, we’ve had a problem.”

The seriously popular film of the episode — Apollo 13 — slightly misquoted the line, re-making it as: “Houston, we have a problem.” The line caught on in American culture and became synonymous with meaning an unforeseen and serious problem has suddenly emerged.

With this latest antisemitic event involving the outright murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers on a street in Washington, it is safe to say: “America, we have a problem.”

We do.

The question now is what to do about it?

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