Sheldon Adelson, who wanted the US to nuke Iran for Israhell, is dead

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Adelson: US should drop atomic bomb on Iran
American-Jewish billionaire blasts Obama over negotiations with Tehran; says US should show Iran nuclear capabilities.
https://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Adelson-US-should-drop-atomic-bomb-on-Iran-329641

Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson dies
The casino magnate donated massive sums to Republican candidates and various causes.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/sheldon-adelson-republican-megadonor-obituary-031924

Sheldon Adelson, a casino magnate who became a Republican kingmaker late in his life by repeatedly donating tens of millions of dollars, has died. He was 87.

The Las Vegas Sands Corporation, the resort company Adelson founded, announced his passing in a news release Tuesday — saying the death of its chair and chief executive officer was the result of "complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma."

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Largely apolitical for decades, Adelson became a donor of colossal sums late in his life. His influence spread far and wide, as he and his wife, Miriam, donated to campaigns and causes through assorted super PACs. In 2012, Adelson became the largest individual donor in American electoral history, injecting more than $90 million into the presidential race in a failed effort to prevent President Barack Obama from winning a second term.

In her own statement, Miriam Adelson described her late husband as "the love of my life" and "my partner in romance, philanthropy, political activism and enterprise. He was my soulmate."

Beyond "bettering the lives of individuals," Miriam said, Sheldon "crafted the course of nations. Some of the historical changes that he helped effect — in the United States, Israel and elsewhere — are publicly known. Others are not." But "recognition of his own indispensable role was unimportant," she said, and his "ideal day's end was in the company of family and friends, not statesmen or celebrities."

Former President George W. Bush said in a statement that he and former first lady Laura Bush "mourn the passing of a friend." He called Adelson "an American patriot and a strong supporter of Israel" who "will be missed by many — none more than his beloved family."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that he and his wife Sara were "heartbroken" by the news of Adelson's death. "He was a wonderful friend to us personally and an incredible champion of the Jewish people, the Jewish state and the alliance between Israel and America," Netanyahu wrote.

Before the 2016 election, the so-called Adelson primary had Republican candidates flocking to Las Vegas to seek his blessing. "As Adelson whizzed around his Venetian kingdom on a motorized scooter during the retreat," POLITICO reported during a Republican Jewish gathering in 2014, "he was often trailed by GOP operatives, politicians and fellow donors eager to assess his state of mind, advise him on what he should do or just lavish him with praise and gratitude."

After that election, he gave $5 million to Donald Trump's inaugural committee, another record-setting sum. And during the 2020 campaign cycle, the Adelsons gave $50 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, the top House GOP super PAC, and $70 million to the Senate Leadership Fund.

He also gave millions over the years to pro-Israel organizations, and in late December, he had provided a private plane to fly convicted spy Jonathan Pollard and his wife from the U.S. to Israel. Yet, Adelson mostly remained out of the public eye.

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In 1991, Adelson married Miriam Ochshorn, 12 years his junior and a native of his beloved Israel, whom he met on a blind date three years after divorcing his first wife, Sandra. The two would pair up on many enterprises, including the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation. "She is an accomplished medical doctor, as well as her husband's partner in a range of business and philanthropic activities," Fortune wrote in 2012.

"Sheldon is everything to me," Miriam told Fortune for that article. She added: "We are on a magnificent flight together."

Israel would be a focus of their philanthropy, with the two donating more than $100 million to Birthright Israel, an organization that funds trips to Israel for Jewish Americans.

In listing the world's most influential Jews in 2015, the Jewish newspaper Algemeiner said Adelson "continues to make outsize gifts to a range of Jewish and non-Jewish groups." (Those efforts would be cited when Trump awarded Miriam Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018.)

Sheldon Adelson was a relative latecomer to the political world. A Democrat in his formative years, he would always claim, "I didn't leave the Democrats, they left me." He said it was the 1988 Democratic National Convention that inspired him — in that case, to become a Republican backer.

"Adelson said," Allen wrote, "he had been fairly apolitical until a friend invited him to his first national political convention — the 1988 Democratic convention in Atlanta. 'It wasn't really a lot of fun because everywhere I went ... everybody was talking about what kind of job they're going to get when Michael Dukakis became president,' he recalled. 'It disgusted me.' "

No political figure would draw his contempt more than Obama, whose Middle East policies he deemed dangerous. That concern drew him heavily into the 2012 campaign, in which he initially supported former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. "Adelson, who reportedly has donated as much as $20 million to the pro-Gingrich Winning Our Future super PAC, cares first and foremost about defending Israel," POLITICO wrote in 2012.

Once it was clear that Gingrich was not going to win, he went all-in for Mitt Romney, donating at least $70 million for the GOP nominee — and quite likely more, in the form of donations to groups not required to disclose their donors.

Romney lost, but Adelson's lavish spending created a feeding frenzy around him for the 2016 election.

Early on, he and his wife largely remained on the sidelines, disappointing those who hoped they would bolster Florida Sen. Marco Rubio or another anti-Trump GOP candidate. "Nobody knows exactly why he's still on the sidelines or when he might come off," one Republican operative was quoted as saying in February 2016.

In May, Adelson backed Trump. "If Republicans do not come together in support of Trump, Obama will essentially be granted something the Constitution does not allow — a third term in the name of Hillary Clinton," he wrote. Adelson and Trump subsequently met to talk. Money flowed in.

After Trump was elected, Adelson donated to his inaugural committee. However, there were moments they didn't see eye-to-eye, particularly when Jewish activists close to Adelson spoke up about Trump's muted reaction to a rise in anti-Semitic incidents. In November 2017, the Adelsons also made it clear they weren't on board with Steve Bannon's insurgent efforts against establishment Republicans. "They are supporting Mitch McConnell 100 percent," a spokesman said.

Extending his reach beyond presidential elections, the Adelsons backed candidates in secondary races, with mixed success. They also opposed the legalization of marijuana and of online gambling.

As a veteran of the gaming industry, Adelson claimed to be unfazed by the ups and downs of electoral politics.

"I happen to be in a unique business where winning and losing is the basis of the entire business," Adelson said at one point. "So I don't cry when I lose. There's always a new hand coming up." 

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TRIBUTE TO THE 'GREAT AMERICAN PATRIOT' SHELDON ADELSON
27-minute Know More News report here:  https://www.bitchute.com/video/7lx9dhSsS5l6/

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From Phil Giraldi:
Goodbye Sheldon Adelson
The malignant toad is dead
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/goodbye-sheldon-adelson/

Casino magnate and Israeli patriot multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson, one of the world's richest men, died in Las Vegas on January 11th at age 87. He had been suffering from cancer and has been buried at the Mount of Olives Cemetery in Israel. When his body arrived in Israel it was met by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as Jonathan Pollard, the most damaging spy in United States history. Tributes to the fallen "hero" poured in from the political class in both the United States and Israel and it has even been reported that President Donald Trump was intending to hoist the American flag at half mast over federal buildings to honor the "great humanitarian philanthropist." Unfortunately, the flag was already at half mast honoring the death of Capitol Police Force officer Brian Sicknick, who was murdered in the Capitol building last Wednesday.

Trump has not mentioned the service unto death of Sicknick and the flag lowering itself was apparently a bit of an afterthought on behalf of the White House, but he had plenty to say about his good buddy Adelson, who has been the principal funder of the Republican Party over the past five years. As he can no longer use Twitter, the president's condolences were posted on the White House site: "Melania and I mourn the passing of Sheldon Adelson, and send our heartfelt condolences to his wife Miriam, his children and grandchildren. Sheldon lived the true American dream. His ingenuity, genius, and creativity earned him immense wealth, but his character and philanthropic generosity his great name. Sheldon was also a staunch supporter of our great ally the State of Israel. He tirelessly advocated for the relocation of the United States embassy to Jerusalem, the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and the pursuit of peace between Israel and its neighbors. Sheldon was true to his family, his country, and all those that knew him. The world has lost a great man. He will be missed."

Missing from the Trump eulogy is any mention of what Adelson did for the United States, which is his country of birth and where he made his fortune engaging in activity that many would consider to be a vice. In fact, Adelson was all about the Jewish state, positioning himself as the principal funder of the Republican Party under Donald Trump and receiving in return as a quid pro quo the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA), the move of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the recognition of Israeli annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights, and a virtual concession that the Jewish state could do whatever it wants vis-à-vis the Palestinians, to include expelling them from Palestine. Adelson once commented that Israel does not have to pretend to be a democracy but it must be Jewish, presumably to help the process of Arab genocide move along.

Adelson's mechanism, initiated under George W. Bush, is familiar to how the Israel Lobby operates more generally. It consisted of the exploitation of the incessant need of campaign money by the GOP, which Adelson provided with strings attached. He worked with the Republicans to completely derail the admittedly faux peace process begun under Bill Clinton, which depended on a two-state solution, and instead give the Jewish state a free hand to implement its own unilateral Greater Israel Project extending from "the Jordan River to the Mediterranean." As part of that expansion, Israel has been building illegal settlements while also bombing and killing Lebanese, Syrians, and Iranians and assassinating scientists and technicians throughout the region.

All of the interventions against Israel's neighbors took place even though the Jewish state was not technically at war with anyone. The U.S. meanwhile funded Israeli aggression and watched the spectacle without any complaint, providing political cover as necessary, while also maintaining a major military presence in the Middle East to "protect Israel," as Trump recently admitted.

In short, Sheldon Adelson committed as much as half a billion dollars from his vast fortune to buy control over a major element of U.S. foreign policy and subordinated American interests to those of Israel. In addition to direct donations to both major political parties, he also paid for Congressional "fact finding" trips to Israel and funded a number of pro-Israel lobbies, so-called charities and other related Jewish projects. It is indisputable that he wielded an incredible degree of power to shape Washington's actions in the Middle East. In her own tribute to her dead husband, Miriam Adelson, an Israeli, described how he "crafted the course of nations."

Adelson was actively engaged on Israel's behalf until the week before his death. He provided his casino's private 737 luxury executive jet to transport Jonathan Pollard "home" to Israel. Pollard has served 30 years in prison after being convicted of espionage and was on parole, which restricted his travel. As yet another a gift to Israel, Donald Trump lifted that restriction, allowing him to fly to Israel where he received a hero's welcome. It is generally agreed that Pollard was the most damaging spy in American history, having stolen the keys to accessing U.S. communications and information gathering systems. A month after Pollard's arrest in 1985, C.I.A director William Casey stated: "The Israelis used Pollard to obtain our war plans against the USSR – all of it: the co-ordinates, the firing locations, the sequences, and Israel sold that information to Moscow for more exit visas for Soviet Jews."

Sheldon Adelson used his wealth and political connections to shield himself from any criticism due to his openly expressed preference for Israel over the land of his birth. He famously publicly stated that he wished he had worn the Israeli Army uniform instead of that of the U.S. Army, where he served briefly as a draftee. He also expressed his desire that his son would serve as an Israeli army sniper, presumably allowing him to blow the heads off of Palestinians. In 2013 Adelson advocated ending nuclear negotiations with Iran and instead detonating a nuclear weapon in "the middle of the [Iranian] desert," followed by a threat to annihilate the capital city Tehran, home to 8.6 million, to force Iran to surrender its essentially non-existent nuclear program.

Other acknowledgements of the impact of Adelson came from officials in the Trump Administration. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commented how his "efforts to strengthen the alliance between Israel and the United States...the world, Israel and the United States are safer because of his work." Yeah, right Mike.

So, the world is definitely a better place due to the passing of Sheldon Adelson. Or is it? His Israeli wife Miriam owns more than 40% of Las Vegas Sands Corp Casinos Inc., estimated to be worth in excess of $17 billion. She has proposed that a new chapter be included in the Jewish bible, the Book of Trump, and has pledged herself to continue her husband's work. Trump had previously given her the highest award that a president can bestow, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Freedom, of course, does not apply to Palestinians. And if one is concerned that the Democrats will not be cooperative, they too have their own major donor similar to Adelson. He is an Israeli film producer named Haim Saban, who, echoing a similar statement by Adelson, said that he is a one issue guy and that issue is Israel.