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HOLLYWOOD
10-26-2013, 12:55 PM
Remember, Adelson is the number one campaign bundler of cash for the GOP in 2012, with over $150 Million dollars laundered through SuperPACs, like Restore Our Future, and Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, American Crossroads. see here: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?425974-O-Bomb-Ya-to-make-Syria-statement&p=5204458&viewfull=1#post5204458

http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Adelson-US-should-drop-atomic-bomb-on-Iran-329641

Adelson: US should drop atomic bomb on Iran
By MAYA SHWAYDER JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
10/24/2013 14:58

American-Jewish billionaire blasts Obama over negotiations with Tehran; says US should show Iran nuclear capabilities.
http://www.jpost.com/HttpHandlers/ShowImage.ashx?id=198021&h=236&w=370
Sheldon Adelson Photo: Reuters

NEW YORK – During a panel at Yeshiva University on Tuesday evening, Sheldon Adelson, noted businessman and owner of the newspaper Israel Hayom, suggested that the US should use nuclear weapons on Iran to impose its demands from a position of strength.

Asked by moderator Rabbi Shmuley Boteach whether the US should negotiate with Iran if it were to cease its uranium enrichment program, Adelson retorted, “What are we going to negotiate about?”

Adelson then imagined what might happen if an American official were to call up an Iranian official, say “watch this,” and subsequently drop a nuclear bomb in the middle of the Iranian desert.

"Then you say, ‘See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So, we mean business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development. You want to be peaceful? Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you can have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy purposes’," Adelson said.

“So a tremendous demonstration of American strength?” Boteach clarified. “So that they would get the message?”

“It’s the only thing they understand,” Adelson said.

“And do you see the current negotiations as a sign of weakness?” Boteach asked.

“Absolutely,” Adelson said.

Adelson, who donated tens of millions of dollars to defeated Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the most recent campaign, criticized the Obama administration's willingness to engage the Iranians diplomatically.
"[It's] the worst negotiating tactic I could ever imagine, my entire life," he said.

"Because you can’t get anything. He’s not saying to them, Roll back your entire program and show that you’re willing to be peaceful. So, roll it all back… and we’ll roll back the sanctions…. What is that, a game of chicken, who’s going to blink first?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oSAPMYTuss
In response to Adelson's comments, Boteach said whether the remarks were regarded as serious or an exaggeration to exemplify the extreme measures that the US must take to thwart Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, the international community often employs double standards on Israeli issues.

“When I heard Sheldon make his remark, my initial thought was that his purpose was to goad his more liberal critics into attacking the policy so that their double standards on nuclear threats against Israel could be exposed,” said Rabbi Boteach in a statement.

“I would hope that those who seem alarmed by Sheldon’s overstatement on the extent to which the United States should go to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon will at least protest that much more loudly against its actual development,” he added.

Uriel999
10-26-2013, 01:00 PM
Yes nuke a country for developing nuclear energy and potentially nuclear bombs! It makes perfect sense!

69360
10-26-2013, 02:02 PM
Don't frequent his businesses.

He owns the vegas sands, the venetian, the pallazo, the sands in PA and some others in Macau and China. After his spending in the 2012 election, I stopped going to his casinos. This is even more reason not to give him your money.

mrsat_98
10-26-2013, 02:08 PM
Yes nuke a country for developing nuclear energy and potentially nuclear bombs! It makes perfect sense!

Better yet bomb said nuclear developments and call it a good thing.

dillo
10-26-2013, 02:11 PM
Iran should say they will disarm their nuclear program when Pakistan and Israel does

James Madison
10-26-2013, 03:31 PM
If there's a nuke dropped in the desert and there's no one around to see it, is it an act of war? Methinks, yes.

Danke
10-26-2013, 03:49 PM
Too bad the US Government didn't do this in Aug. 1945.

DamianTV
10-26-2013, 03:55 PM
I swear our Govt is TRYING to start WWIII, not prevent it at all possible costs.

James Madison
10-26-2013, 04:01 PM
I swear our Govt Israel is TRYING to start WWIII, not prevent it at all possible costs.

Israel conquered our government a long time ago.

enhanced_deficit
10-26-2013, 04:59 PM
Since Iran has called for Israel to end its nuclear program, tables at UN have been turned.

If UN has to police mideast, only practical solution is to declare Mideast a "nuke free zone". Mideasterners should be praying and stuff anyway on those holy lands, leave WMDs proliferation work to Wall Street funding lubricated MIC in US and other places.

thoughtomator
10-26-2013, 05:06 PM
With a little elbow grease, this could make Adelson's money untouchable for politicians. Who wants to be known as the politician hired to start a nuclear war?

FloralScent
10-26-2013, 05:21 PM
Israel conquered our government a long time ago.

Even before Israel existed.

69360
10-26-2013, 05:28 PM
With a little elbow grease, this could make Adelson's money untouchable for politicians. Who wants to be known as the politician hired to start a nuclear war?

They will still take it. There's always front corporations, bundlers, straw donations...

alucard13mm
10-26-2013, 05:32 PM
How come these billionaires don't use their own money to purchase some nukes off the black market and then nuke iran if they truly are that obssessed about it? I am sure some groups, maybe some ex-soviets or even pakis, would sell some nukes for a good chunk of change.

fr33
10-26-2013, 06:13 PM
When people like Adelson drop dead, the world is a better place.

fr33
10-26-2013, 06:14 PM
With a little elbow grease, this could make Adelson's money untouchable for politicians. Who wants to be known as the politician hired to start a nuclear war?

A lot of them. :/

HOLLYWOOD
10-26-2013, 07:07 PM
Don't frequent his businesses.

He owns the vegas sands, the venetian, the pallazo, the sands in PA and some others in Macau and China. After his spending in the 2012 election, I stopped going to his casinos. This is even more reason not to give him your money.
I've done the same... I've passed the word out to everyone I know, not to do any business with Adelson's empire. A little factoid, Adelson has so many aircraft under the Sands corp., he could open his own airline. Of course Adelson attempts to hijack the Tea Party ideology with his; funding, operations, and creations of fronts like the TPNN & Patriot Action Network. Beware of the phony front-man like; Scottie Neal Hughes, Darla Dawald, and Rusty Humphries. Phony marketing of the Tea Party which magically and routinely show up on FOX/NEWSCORP/CNN/ shows.



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COpatriot
10-26-2013, 08:31 PM
And all the people who screamed about Ahmadinejad and still attribute his obscure quotes to Iran even after he's out of office (I'm looking at you Hannity) won't have a problem this at all. Hell, they agree with it. Just read some of the comments.

My question is, how is this any different from someone who wants to "wipe Israel off the map"?

RM918
10-26-2013, 08:34 PM
I'd be totally fine with this, so long as you dropped Adelson from that plane right before you dropped the bomb.

HOLLYWOOD
10-26-2013, 09:47 PM
I'd be totally fine with this, so long as you dropped Adelson from that plane right before you dropped the bomb.Hmmm...

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Miss Annie
10-26-2013, 09:56 PM
PreEmptive war is terrorism. Iran makes verbal threats all the time, but sticks and stones...... that just means that part of the world is still 10 and bullying people on the playground.

kcchiefs6465
10-26-2013, 10:37 PM
PreEmptive war is terrorism. Iran makes verbal threats all the time, but sticks and stones...... that just means that part of the world is still 10 and bullying people on the playground.
It's the United States and Israel who are bullying people.

Iran sounds like Pakistan.

Sovereignty is a joke.

Danke
10-26-2013, 10:53 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv1pUljgSrs&feature=em-uploademail

DFF
10-27-2013, 12:28 AM
Adelson is a traitor who should be tried for treason, and once convicted, expelled from the United States.

Same goes for a shitload of Congress critters (AKA whores for AIPAC) as well.

HOLLYWOOD
10-27-2013, 06:09 PM
WTF is this? This guy doesn't make any sense in his deduction of what Adelson said or means. The discussion was at familiarly known "the Stern Building on Lexington Avenue, NYC. The audience that came to hear Adelson, which gave an applause when he stated to, "launch a nuke from Nebraska and explode it over Iran".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv1pUljgSrs&feature=em-uploademail

Danke
10-27-2013, 10:36 PM
WTF is this? This guy doesn't make any sense in his deduction of what Adelson said or means. The discussion was at familiarly known "the Stern Building on Lexington Avenue, NYC. The audience that came to hear Adelson, which gave an applause when he stated to, "launch a nuke from Nebraska and explode it over Iran".


umm, I think his point was lost on you.

Ender
10-27-2013, 11:21 PM
And all the people who screamed about Ahmadinejad and still attribute his obscure quotes to Iran even after he's out of office (I'm looking at you Hannity) won't have a problem this at all. Hell, they agree with it. Just read some of the comments.

My question is, how is this any different from someone who wants to "wipe Israel off the map"?

It's not- but Ahmadinejad never said those words.

enhanced_deficit
06-14-2019, 10:21 PM
America-First: MAGA's top funder Adelson wants his children to serve in Israeli military (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TFi-9wnspk)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TFi-9wnspk


Trump to award Sheldon Adelson's wife with a Medal of Freedom (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?528305-Trump-to-award-Sheldon-Adelson-s-wife-with-a-Medal-of-Freedom&)https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2019/02/Adelson.jpg?resize=600,452

Pauls' Revere
06-14-2019, 10:30 PM
If there's a nuke dropped in the desert and there's no one around to see it, is it an act of war? Methinks, yes.

:up:

enhanced_deficit
07-20-2019, 09:14 AM
July 20, 2019

Iran seizes British oil tanker in Gulf... (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9544266/iran-british-oil-tanker-revolutionary-guard-royal-navy/)
Video... (https://news.sky.com/video/iran-footage-of-detained-uk-oil-tanker-stena-impero-emerges-11766969)
Second one released... (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/british-oil-tanker-seized-iranian-forces-being-guided-strait-hormuz-n1031866)
UK warns of 'serious consequences'... (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/07/20/britain-warns-iran-over-seized-oil-tanker-strait-hormuz-us-iran-tensions/1784626001/)
Clash with Royal Navy... (http://news.trust.org/item/20190719193123-mxi42)
Tehran says USA may have shot down own drone! (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/07/19/iran-disputes-trump-claim-u-s-navy-destroyed-its-drone/1775051001/)
Releases footage... (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49052302)
New weapon revealed... (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-downed-iranian-drone-with-new-technology-11563579400)



WAR DRUMS IRAN (https://www.apnews.com/6c36f5aa1ba942569e5efcfd48e33324)
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May 14, 2018
Mega-donor Adelson, with access and influence, scores two pro- Israel victories (https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article211098039.html)
These are heady days for casino billionaire and megadonor Sheldon Adelson.
A passionate and hawkish advocate for Israel with close ties to its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Adelson was in Jerusalem today for a celebration of the U.S. embassy’s relocation to that city, a longstanding priority for the mogul. Similarly, Adelson had pushed hard for President Donald Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, which happened last week.
And the day after that announcement, Adelson quietly slipped into the White House for a private meeting with Trump and three top administration officials: Vice President Mike Pence, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and an Adelson favorite, National Security Adviser John Bolton, according to two conservative sources familiar with the previously unreported private event.

devil21
07-21-2019, 02:17 PM
I miss HOLLYWOOD. He was probably the first on RPF to show us how deep some of these rabbit holes go.

enhanced_deficit
09-14-2019, 06:50 PM
There is good chance still that saner heads would prevail and neocons wish for another big mideast war won't come true.

Saudi oil production cut by 50% after drones attack crude facilities (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?539206-Saudi-oil-production-cut-by-50-after-drones-attack-crude-facilities&)

enhanced_deficit
09-15-2019, 08:51 PM
With a little elbow grease, this could make Adelson's money untouchable for politicians. Who wants to be known as the politician hired to start a nuclear war?

Allegedly, he's top funder of Polish-Israeli politician Netanyahu and American politician MAGA.



Related

Trump says U.S. ‘locked and loaded’ after attack on Saudi oil (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?539241-Trump-says-U-S-‘locked-and-loaded’-after-attack-on-Saudi-oil&)
The president’s tweet follows Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s assertion Saturday that Iran was squarely to blame for the attack on key Saudi oil infrastructure, and comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S.

enhanced_deficit
12-31-2019, 11:05 AM
Sheldon Adelson’s ‘Israel Hayom’ incites cyber attacks against the ICC

Jonathan Ofir on December 27, 2019

The Israeli press is on a feverish overdrive against the International Criminal Court and its Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, for the recent announcement (https://mondoweiss.net/2019/12/icc-decision-to-investigate-war-crimes-touches-israelis-deepest-fear-accountability/) of the decision to fully investigate Israeli war crimes. The Times of Israel covers (https://www.timesofisrael.com/from-the-gambia-to-the-hague-meet-israels-new-public-enemy-number-one/) this wave of hostility:
Israel has many detractors, real and imagined, but since Friday the country has a brand new public enemy number one: Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Since announcing her intention to open an investigation into the “situation in Palestine” because she believes war crimes “have been or are being committed” there, the 58-year-old Gambia native has endured a massive wave of criticism. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly accused her of “pure anti-Semitism,” comparing the legalistic argumentation she put forward to the anti-Jewish decrees by the villains of the Hanukkah story. Bensouda, however, has also faced remarkable hostility from some unexpected corners of the Israeli media. This is not because the press is suddenly supportive of Netanyahu, but instead may have more to do with the fact that her war crime accusations are directed at Israeli soldiers. Since most Israelis have either served in the army or have close family members who served, many here feel personally attacked.


This wave has reached new heights, with the Sheldon Adelson-funded daily Israel Hayom, the country’s largest paper in circulation, inciting cyber attacks against the ICC.
In his article “Tiptoeing around the ICC (https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/12/27/tiptoeing-around-the-icc/)” the paper’s Diplomatic Correspondent Ariel Kahana writes, “Israel has only one option left when it comes to the ICC, which is threatening its most vital self-defense interests” and continues:
It must move from the language of law to the language of power. The court in The Hague does not dare tangle with powerful nations that everyone agrees attack human rights, like Russia or China. Rather than Israel’s legal squirming, perhaps Bensouda should be put in the position of having to explain to her staff why their computers crashed one morning or where their archives vanished. These are only a few of Israel’s options” (my emphasis).




https://mondoweiss.net/2019/12/sheldon-adelsons-israel-hayom-incites-cyber-attacks-against-the-icc/