Victims Become Nazi Fascists on Steroids: Sheldon Adelson’s Fortune Turned the GOP into the Party of Israeli Apartheid
With Donald Trump’s help, Adelson spent the last years of his life helping to make the dreams of the Israeli right a reality.
WITH THE death of 87-year-old billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the Republican Party has lost its biggest benefactor.
Sheldon Adelson’s fortune helped turn the GOP into the party of Israeli apartheid – With Donald Trump’s help, Adelson spent the last years of his life helping to make the dreams of the Israeli right a reality https://t.co/6PqYsEORn6 by @alexbkane
— Andrew Feinstein (@andrewfeinstein) January 13, 2021
Adelson’s legacy, however, will live on for generations, not only in his Israeli-born wife Miriam, who is expected to continue giving millions of dollars to the Republican Party, but in the shape of the U.S.-Israel relationship, Adelson’s top concern. “I’m a one-issue person. That issue is Israel,” Adelson said in 2017.
‘Trump plan to label pro-BDS groups antisemitic is off the table’ ✊ BDS is the only way to get the far right Israeli government to end its brutal illegal occupation. BDS was key to ending apartheid in South Africa! https://t.co/1q5MbVvPzw https://t.co/D40Zkc5Zhb
— Andrew Feinstein (@andrewfeinstein) January 24, 2021
More than anyone else, Adelson can claim credit for transforming the GOP into a party devoted to bolstering Israel’s military occupation and its expansion of West Bank settlements. And the Israeli right, also bankrolled by Adelson, saw many of its political aspirations realized under Donald Trump’s presidency, a political turn that has fractured the long-standing bipartisan consensus on the Jewish state.
She is fine with Israeli apartheid. The woman on the left is Miriam Adelson. pic.twitter.com/e9CkRUWiLI
— Glenn Wiech (@gwiech) January 13, 2019
Adelson’s most important political conviction was that the Israeli right must be supported. The 19th-richest American used his $35 billion fortune to ensure that the GOP’s policy goals united with the Israeli right’s. In a 2010 speech, Adelson, a U.S. Army veteran, lamented that “the uniform that I wore in the military, unfortunately, was not an Israeli uniform.” He added: “All we care about is being good Zionists, being good citizens of Israel, because even though I am not Israeli-born, Israel is in my heart.”
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As for the Palestinians, Adelson saw them as an invented nation and nothing more than a political obstacle. “The purpose of the existence of Palestinians is to destroy Israel,” he said in remarks made in 2014 at an Israeli-American Council conference. During that same appearance, Adelson dismissed concerns about whether Israeli democracy can coexist while Israel rules millions of Palestinians who have no voting rights. So Israel won’t be a democratic state, so what?” he said. Read more…
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/12/sheldon-adelson-trump-israel-republican-party/
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