Covering Adelson, Matthews leaves out the ‘Obama Oy Vey’ factor

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Last Monday, Sheldon Adelson said that Newt Gingrich, whom he had supported with $10 million-plus in the Republican presidential primary, is “at the end of his line.”

Adelson spoke at the Tribefest of the Jewish Federations of North America. The Jewish Journal broke the story on Thursday. Israel is the most important issue to Adelson. In that video he says he’s “pro-choice,” and you can see that he is wearing a button that says “Obama Oy Vey.” “All the terrorists are Islamists,” he says in that video. 

Chris Matthews aired a portion of the video Thursday night and chatted about it. He repeatedly referred to Adelson’s casino interests. He made a joke about China and Macao. He said nothing about Israel or the tribefest or Obama Oy Vey. Check out the transcript here.

You can be sure that Israel is at the heart of Adelson’s negotiations with the Romney campaign. The Center for Public Integrity reports on a dinner at Adelson’s house on March 22 that brought together several huge Jewish supporters of Israel in the Romney camp, Coleman, Sembler, Berman, and Fox:

The big-name attendees at Adelson’s dinner included Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who now chairs a super PAC and a nonprofit group raising millions of dollars to help House Republican candidates. Coleman also serves on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

Also in attendance were Florida real estate magnate Mel Sembler, St. Louis investor Sam Fox and Washington lobbyist Wayne Berman. The three men are Republican Jewish Coalition board members; each has raised large amounts for Romney.

Obviously this story is about Jewish support for Israel and also Jewish identity. The Israel lobby is a huge factor in our politics. Matthews won’t touch it. (Why the silence? Well here’s one possible reason. Matthews’s network is run by David Cohen. Cohen is the former Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.)

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Didn’t it come out during the fuss over Penn’s BDS Conference that Cohen is on Penn’s Board, or am I thinking of someone else?

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What does it say about American politics that a maggot like Adelson may get to determine whether the U.S. goes to war with Iran?

It came out during the fuss over the BDS Conference at Penn that Cohen is Chairman of Penn’s Board of Trustees.

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I’m sure Matthews knows the places where not to tread, places that’ll send shock waves through his dog collar, coutesy of his boss, David Cohen. Here is Cohen with his thoughts on the 2nd Intifata, published 10 April 2002, in the Philadelphia Weekly:

“I personally believe that the tactic Israel is using now is an appropriate response to an absolutely intolerable position being taken by militant factions of the Palestinian movement. And if the leader of that movement–a person who insists internationally on being recognized as the leader–does not condemn on a consistent basis the killing of innocent civilians then the criticism of “the price paid by the Palestinians” needs to visited on that leader and not on the state of Israel. …
Jews and Arabs–non-Palestinian Arabs, law-abiding Arabs–all are at risk as a result of a new kind of war being waged against the state of Israel. It’s not a war with tanks rolling across the Sinai or artillery shelling from the Golan Heights.
The new kind of war that’s being waged on the state of Israel is being run by a band of terrorists who have no regard for human life, no regard for the sovereignty of the state of Israel.
One of the problems created by the latest dimension of terrorism is that even when you are in a hotel at which there are four soldiers at every entrance–a situation we wouldn’t tolerate in the U.S.–you still have a person who is willing to be a suicide bomber, who doesn’t care about getting out alive. That person can walk right in the doors of that hotel, right through the lobby with Israeli soldiers and walk into a crowded ballroom and detonate a bomb.
Israel didn’t start this. And if there was a simple answer to this question, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”

The article features what some of Philly’s prominent Jew’s thought about the raging Intifata. Telling commentary and somewhat encouraging because, 10 years later, i think some of the assumptions we here in their comments are on much shakier ground these days.
Read more: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/the_big_schism-38348629.html?page=3&comments=1&showAll=#ixzz1qoOsPxO1

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RE: “‘All the terrorists are Islamists,’ he [Adelson] says in that
video.” ~ Weiss

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

[excerpts] Alex Odeh (April 4, 1944 – October 11, 1985) was an Arab-American anti-discrimination activist who was killed in a bombing as he opened the door of his office at 1905 East 17th Street, Santa Ana, California. Odeh was west-coast regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).
Born into a Palestinian Christian family in Jifna, the West Bank, Odeh immigrated to the US in 1972.[1] He was a lecturer and poet who recently had published a volume of his poetry, Whispers in Exile.[2]…
…Irv Rubin, who had become chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) the same year, immediately made several public statements in reaction to the incident. “I have no tears for Mr. Odeh,” Rubin said. “He got exactly what he deserved.”[7] …
…Four weeks after Odeh’s death, FBI spokesperson Lane Bonner stated the FBI attributed the bombing and two others to the JDL…
…Immediately after the 1985 assassination the FBI identified three suspects, all of them believed to be affiliated with the JDL, who fled to Israel. In 1987 it was revealed that Israel was hindering the FBI investigation. Floyd Clarke, then assistant director of the FBI, claimed in an internal memo that key suspects had fled to Israel and were living in the West Bank town of Kiryat Arba…
…In 2007, the FBI revealed they had received information from a deceased informant, believed to be former Jewish Defense League member Earl Krugel who had been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for 2001 plots to bomb a Southern California mosque and office of an Arab American congressman. It is believed that Irv Rubin, who died in prison while awaiting trial on the same charges, revealed to Krugel the names of those responsible for Odeh’s death and Krugel shared those with the FBI before he, too, died in prison. The bombers are believed to be Manning and two individuals now living in Israel.[14]…

SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Odeh

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RE: “‘All the terrorists are Islamists,’ he [Adelson] says in that
video.” ~ Weiss

FROM WIKIPEDIA [King David Hotel bombing]: 

(excerpts) The King David Hotel bombing was an attack carried out by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization Irgun on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946.[1][2] 91 people of various nationalities were killed and 46 were injured.[3]. . .

SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

ALSO FROM WIKIPEDIA [Folke Bernadotte]:

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (in Swedish: Greve af Wisborg; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945.[1][2][3] In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected.
After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1947-1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by themilitant Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties. The Lehi was led at the time by Yitzhak Shamir, who was later to become Prime Minister of Israel. . .

SOURCE –  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte

AND FROM WIKIPEDIA [Deir Yassin massacre]:

(excerpt) The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from the Irgun Zevai Leumi and Lohamei Herut Israel Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian-Arab village of roughly 600 people.[1] The assault occurred as Jewish militia sought to relieve the blockade of Jerusalem during the civil war that preceded the end of British rule in Palestine.[2]
Around 107 villagers were killed during and after the battle for the village, including women and children—some were shot, while others died when hand grenades were thrown into their homes.[3] Several villagers were taken prisoner and may have been killed after being paraded through the streets of West Jerusalem, though accounts vary.[4] Four of the attackers died, with around 35 injured.[5] The killings were condemned by the leadership of the Haganah—the Jewish community’s main paramilitary force—and by the area’s two chief rabbis. The Jewish Agency for Israel sent Jordan’s King Abdullah a letter of apology, which he rebuffed.[2]. . .

SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

AGAIN, FROM WIKIPEDIA [Lavon Affair]:

(excerpt) The Lavon Affair refers to a failed Israeli covert operation, code named Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the Summer of 1954. As part of the false flag operation,[1] a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence for plans to plant bombs inside Egyptian, American and British-owned targets. The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists, “unspecified malcontents” or “local nationalists” with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt’s Suez Canal zone.[2] The operation caused no casualties, except for those members of the cell who committed suicide after being captured. . .

SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair

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