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Those ghastly gatherings of radical Muslim and Black Lives Matter activists, ultra-progressives and career agitators were nothing short of street parties. These people are not our critics. They are our enemies, the ideological enablers in the West of those who would go to any length to eradicate us from the Middle East. And, as such, they should be dead to us
“[Sheldon Adelson] supported the policy of the right in Israel, whoever led this policy,” said [Yossi] Beilin [a former Israeli Cabinet minister]. “And what he thought was right for Israel, it was usually very much to the right, with a capital R.”
Evidence suggests that [Miriam] is the driver in the couple’s political and philanthropic activities, whether pushing for the relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv or donating an unprecedented $113m to this year’s midterm elections
“Everybody says it’s Sheldon, but it’s Miriam,” says Michael Cherry, the associate chief justice of the Nevada supreme court, who sits on the board of the Las Vegas methadone clinic that the Adelsons founded.
[Adelson] was also known for his staunch support for illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The Adelson School of Medicine, which was founded in the settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, was named in honour of the media mogul.
In 2008, The New Yorker reported, Miriam had boasted to an associate of the influence they had on then President George W. Bush: “I had a CD on Islamic jihad. I brought it to the White House and told the chief of staff, ‘I would like the president to see this.’ It really is amazing that we have this influence.”
(It seems likely that the “CD” pushed by Miriam was actually a DVD of the Islamophobic film Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West. The Adelsons reportedly gave away copies ahead of the 2008 election to young US Jews participating in Birthright trips.
What has happened to the world’s billionaires, they used to be such good people