More on the Netanyahu speech: “The real ruler of Israel is Sheldon Adelson”
by Gaius Publius
Howie Klein has written a perfect extension to my earlier piece about Benjamin Netanyahu’s still-planned speech before the U.S. Congress. Ron Dermer, Israeli ambassador to the U.S. had a lead role in setting up the speech. I wrote:
[Dermer] is a former U.S. Florida politician, from a Florida political
family, now serving as Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. — a non-political
position, there as here — who is one of the key behind-the-scenes
players in setting up Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, over
administration objections. As Hartmann asks in the video, “How does that
happen?”Papantonio’s answer [from the embedded video], “Real easy. Jeb Bush.” Because Dermer comes from the same neocon Florida crowd that Jeb Bush comes from.
That piece asks the question, “Why Is Netanyahu Coming to Congress?” Klein digs back even further in the chain, and finds this (from his embedded inner quote; my emphasis):
For example, the appointment of our ambassador in the US. Ron Dermer is an American, born in Miami, who was active in Republican politics. To appoint an American functionary of the Republican Party as ambassador of Israel to a Democratic administration may seem strange. Not so strange if Netanyahu acted under the orders of Sheldon Adelson.
It was Adelson who prepared the witches’ brew that is now endangering Israel’s lifeline to Washington. His stooge, Dermer, induced the Republicans in Congress– all of them dependent on Adelson’s largesse or hoping to be so– to invite Netanyahu to give an anti-Obama speech before both Houses.
While this intrigue was in preparation, Dermer met with John Kerry but did not tell him of Netanyahu’s coming. Neither did Netanyahu inform President Obama, who, in a fury, announced that he would not meet with the Prime Minister.
From the point of view of Israel’s vital interests, it is sheer madness to provoke the President of the United States of America, who controls American’s flow of arms to Israel and the American veto power in the UN. But from the point of view of Adelson, who wants to elect a Republican president in 2016, it makes sense. He has already threatened to invest unlimited sums of money to prevent the reelection of any Senator or Representative who is absent from Netanyahu’s speech.
There’s much more there, including but not limited to information about the political effect of the Adelson-owned, widely distributed, free Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom (“Israel Today”). The case is pretty strong. Both Klein and Uri Avnery, the quoted author above, assert that:
“The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world’s tenth richest person, worth
37.2 billion dollars at the latest count”.
Please read. Then think — If Israel can have foreign-controlled politics, so can we, and we very likely we do. Stay tuned.
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