Adelson
Politico is saying that Sheldon Adelson, the ultra-Zionist casino owner reported by Forbes to be the third-richest person in the U.S., may have committed $20 million to pro-Gingrich groups outside the official campaign. This ties in with the great reporting on Republican competition for Jewish donors by Josh Nathan-Kazis and Nathan Guttman at the Forward; they also said that Gingrich’s big Jewish backer is Sheldon Adelson, and the two have a mutual friend in Netanyahu.
This piece underlines what I’ve reported, and repeated again and again, about Adelson: that at the same time that he gave the Republican National State Elections Committee $100,000 in 2000 (after $200,000 in the two years before that), president-elect George Bush was giving neocon Douglas Feith a job, and Feith brought the One-Jerusalem/freeze-the-peace-process agenda into the Bush administration. Along with Iraq-war-architect David Wurmser, who comes up again here, in Gingrich’s wake. Notice all the neocons floating around the Romney and Gingrich campaigns in the Forward report:
In the battle for the Republican pro-Israel vote, Newt Gingrich lacks Mitt Romney’s broad base of prominent Jewish donors. But he has something potentially more powerful: the support of one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s most significant American backers, and a relationship with the Israeli prime minister himself that stretches back decades.
Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, one of the wealthiest men in the world and a major donor to Jewish and conservative causes, is widely known as a Netanyahu stalwart. Less well known are his equally close ties to Gingrich, to whom he has been a major giver in recent years…
(h/t Voskamp via Sullivan)
The number of neoconservatives waiting just off stage in the camps of the Republican candidates, eager to find any excuse for the US to go to war with Iran, is ominous and worrisome. Obama’s re-election is quite uncertain. We need to be able to use the term “Israel-firster” freely on the Chris Matthews or Ed Shows.
Bizarre statement in Ha’aretz
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/secret-eu-paper-aims-to-tackle-israel-s-treatment-of-arab-minority-1.401678
“We believe in common with most Israelis that Israeli nationality is an inclusive concept which can accommodate equally those of other faiths and ethnic origins.”
Zionism “can accommodate those of other ethnic origins”. Including the local people. I guess that is colonialism in a nutshell.
FFS.
But of course it can’t even do that.
I don’t trust him, but Gordon Duff of Veterans Today once wrote something on Gingrich being ‘invented’ that made a whole lot of sense. That Gingrich was a ‘creation’ of the lobby from the very beginning. Basically they saw in this man somebody who could do their dirty work with a straight face and be ‘charming’ about it to gullible masses. Ron Paul’s political ads kinda exposed part of this. His constant flip-flopping on issues and all the third party conflict-of-interest bribery.
Adelson is one of the PTB. He has all the symptoms. Philanthropy to save face superficially that funds propaganda and can be used to throw his weight around if need be (the way ‘donors’ pressure universities to silence criticism of Israel). He is invested in the media, his Israeli newspaper has the highest readership in Israel. He is sue crazy, he sues everybody. And when people sue him he accuses them of lying. Always. And smears them. His lawyers are well-paid and make him nearly invincible. He apologizes a lot and his apologies lack empathy meaning he is likely a psychopath. And this is not the first time he has donated something to Gingrich.
$20 million is quite a bit of cash. In the back of my mind, I kept thinking about that article written by Duff. I was thinking if this man was really a Likudite brought up by the lobby, why was he in the background in the initial straw polls and debates? Maybe they were waiting for the opportune moment to bring him to the spotlight, assuming there way any truth to the ‘creation’ thing to begin with. Now he’s the front runner. That’s why I think Duff was telling the truth (I’ll try and dig up the article). Weird that the “Jewish Vote” abandoned Obummer to support Romney and now are supporting Gingrich. And that folks, is why Ron Paul is going to come out ahead. At least IMO. Because Gingrich is truly unelectable.
Gingrich needs to get destroyed at the polls for letting people like the racist traitor Adelson bribe him.
FYI
“GIULIANI: I jumped up out of my chair and cheered for Newt when he said what he said about Palestine. Finally. Thank God. Someone is saying the right things about Palestine. Somebody has to question why are we creating a Palestinian state that’s going to be another terrorist state. Put Israel aside for a minute. Is it in the interest of the United States of America to create another state where they’re going to be training people to come over here and blow us up? Of course it isn’t.”
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/12/15/390010/giuliani-cheered-palestinians-invented-people/