Oh, I thought this was The Onion.
Original title: Miriam Adelson’s Unfinished Business What does the eighth richest woman in the world want?
The article shows how aggressively anti-peace she is and her beliefs about the land to support the above claim
Sheldon Adelson’s widow. yeah, this all makes way too much sense. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient in 2018, from #45. The wikipedia pic of her shows #45 solemnly placing the medal around her neck.
do we have a punchable faces sub yet?
Sheldon Gary Adelson (August 4, 1933 – January 11, 2021) was an American businessman,[2] investor, political donor, and philanthropist.[3][4][5] He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited, which operated The Venetian Las Vegas and the Sands Expo and Convention Center before selling the properties in early 2022.[6] He owned the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom, the Israeli weekly newspaper Makor Rishon, and the American daily newspaper the Las Vegas Review-Journal.[7][8]
Adelson created the Adelson Foundation in 2007, a private charity focusing on healthcare and support of Israel and the Jewish people. He was a major contributor to Republican Party candidates[9][10] and was often dubbed a “kingmaker” due to the size and frequency of his donations.[11][12] He and his wife Miriam Adelson were Donald Trump’s largest donors, providing the largest donation to Trump’s 2016 campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference, and the 2020 campaign.[13][14][15][16][17][18] He was also a major backer of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[19]
In 2020, Forbes listed his net worth as US$29.8 billion.[20]
He died in 2021
If anybody reading this is voting against Biden because of Palestine (effectively a vote for trump under fptp) these are trumps #1 fans and bill payers
Pro trump is not pro Palestine.
This article should make it even more patently clear to everyone that the situation in Palestine would get much worse if Trump wins.
A vote for Biden is also a vote for israel.
Have you already forgotten that under Biden israel committed the largest land theft in the West Bank in a long time?
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit
That’s like saying Trump gets credit for everything that happened under his term even if somebody else did it, like the vaccine developed in Germany getting first to market
But no, that’s not how it works, unless you expect Biden to go in with the US military and declare war on Israel’s government
I expect Biden to put sanctions on israel and withold weapons when they violate war crimes.
Biden has also not undone Trumps move of moving the israeli embassy onto stolen land meaning Biden is on board with it.
Trump gets credit for the Zionism during his term, Biden gets credit for his own Zionism. Or need you be reminded that Biden openly calls himself a Zionist?
Are you expecting Biden to send the US military to enforce actions like that? How else will he make it happen on ground controlled by Israeli security forces without permission from Israel?
He canceled the previous veto policy;
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/29/netanyahu-biden-gop-effort-to-sanction-icc-00160387
Direct sanctions
Has in fact already withheld weapons (yeah it should’ve been done earlier, but Trump is the kind of person who’d make a point of supplying more).
https://apnews.com/article/israel-weapons-shipment-us-eed365ebef0477ba74bf9848cacae4f4
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/10/pause-us-joins-other-states-stopping-arms-transfers-israel
GOP, Trump’s party, want to enforce continued weapon sales to Israel and prevent Biden from halting it
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-gop-pushes-israel-weapons-bill/story?id=110228315
Funny how you can basically buy those. Just gotta be filthy rich and ethically bankrupt.
I mean… is it really anti-peace if she wants to end the war? Generally there’s peace for a while after someone completely wins.
Would people who supported the US joining WW2 so they could wreck the Axis be anti-peace?
Things to ponder.
The current war is in Gaza (controlled by Hamas), she’s talking about starting a new war with the West Bank (controlled by the Palestinian Authority).
The current war is in multiple places, it’s hardly restricted to only Gaza. Even other countries (or at least nominally the “terrorist groups” in those countries) are firing missiles across the border into Israel. Lebanon, Syria, even Iran sent that massive drone attack.
It would be the same as ending the war Ukraine by letting Russia keep what they stole. Zero incentive not to keep doing it and it validates the side of the aggressor by saying “wow you both need to stop fighting”.
Right-wingers love to cite self-defense as reasons why they should own guns and be able to shoot people who simply knock on their front door but the second a brown person does it after years of being systematically oppressed/genocided suddenly they’re just as guilty as the oppressor, if not more so.
In short, wanting peace in that way is a pretty little lie meant to legitimize terror campaigns and invalidate the damage done to the victims. It’s full of horseshit.
I’m not arguing right or wrong, I’m just saying it’s technically not anti-peace.
Sure, if you consider the complete destruction of an entire ethnic group of people to be “peace”. Can’t fight if they’re all dead. But if you truly do think that way, you are the problem and I recommend a long walk off a short pier.
In the same way that North Korea has “Democratic” in the name, sure. It’s all so surface level as to be essentially meaningless. While I agree that fairness does involve some arguing of that kind of a technicality it really only serves to validate the idea that Israel is justified in any way.
Israel wants to eradicate an entire culture and their people. They want to steal their land and are doing so with the help of major world powers. They bomb hospitals, shoot civilians, and terrorize Palestinians on the basis that they’re somehow owed that land. Hamas retaliated and now Israel is complaining by obliterating the entire country. The “peace” this lady wants is the peace for Israel to continue to do these things without retaliation. She doesn’t want peace, she wants submission.
The mega rich are just terrified of consequences and try, every day, to get their poor behaviour and lack of humanity written into laws and precedent so that they don’t have to ever to take blame for any of the rotten shit they pull.
The eradication of millions of civilians is definitely anti-peace.
A similar situation would be the US joining WW2 on the Axis side. I mean once Britain, France, Russia, China, and the Jews were finished off, there’d be peace for a while right?
Ponder what unconditional support for Israel would mean for Palestinians in our current landscape.
You joke about the WW2 thing, but yes, that would have resulted in peace as well. Peace is peace, regardless of who wins.
There was peace after Genghis khan conquered most of Asia too.
I don’t ponder what unconditional support for Israel would mean for Palestinians in our current landscape, it would mean them being displaced to neighboring countries. Almost exactly the same as is happening in a half dozen other areas of the globe right now. You could displace every single Palestinian and it would still cause fewer refugees than the current number of refugees from Syria’s civil war, which has killed over a half million people.
I haven’t heard of a single university protest over Syria though.
Lots to unpack, let’s hit the big ones. Do any means justify peace? Is mass murder of entire countries okay because it would result in less overall friction afterward? How long does peace need to last after for it to make it worth it?
Displacement. Is it fair to the people who have lived in a country for generations to leave because of other’s actions? Moreso, many of them currently /want/ to leave (really really bad) but can’t, what should they do? And also, how is that fair to neighboring countries, they’re just required to take in refugees because Israel wants more land? (What if there weren’t neighboring countries?)
Finally, (please educate me), are universities very invested in Syrian companies/industries? That’s what the current protests are about, divestment from Israel. Are you required to care about all atrocities in order to care for one? What line marks which bad things in the world protesters should inclusively be knowledgeable about?
I’d argue that if Israel is attempting mass murder, they’re absolute shit at it. Sure they’ve killed a couple of tens of thousand Palestinians, but there’s something like 5 million of them, they’re having babies faster than Israel is killing people.
As for Displacement, most Palestinians haven’t lived there for generations, a lot of the current population comes from immigrants/internal migration from the surrounding region during the British Occupation, and also from the wars (Egypt owned Gaza for 20 years after the british left) The population of Palestine has grown so fast in the last 30 years that the median age is 19.6 (https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/state-of-palestine-population/#:~:text=The population density in the,2%2C311 people per mi2).&text=The%20median%20age%20in%20the%20State%20of%20Palestine%20is%2019.6%20years.)
How is it fair to neighboring countries? You mean the ones that invaded Israel because they weren’t happy with the UN drawn borders after the wars? The ones that occupied those territories and brought people in? Most of the people are THEIR people to begin with.
If there weren’t neighboring countries, Palestinians wouldn’t exist. They would have been removed entirely 70 years ago without the invasion by those arab countries.
Most universities aren’t heavily invested in Israeli anything… Israel only accounts for something like 40 Billion in total foreign direct investment, while Canada, the US, Mexico are each measured in Trillions of dollars. Unless a specific university went out of their way to pick up an Israeli-attached portfolio, it likely accounts for less than 1% of their total investments.
Here’s a quote from the encampment people at my local university with their divestment demands: the university leases space to a marine company that has in the past helped produce equipment for Israel, the university has $4.3 million invested in Blackrock (a global asset management company) that in turn invests part of its funds in companies like Lockheed and Boeing which have relations with Israel, and the university has 250k invested in Scotiabank, which is in turn an investor in a single Israeli weapons company. The total endowment for this university is over 500 million dollars, so less than 1% is invested in companies that are themselves only partially invested in Israeli-attached companies.
If a fraction of 1% is enough to cause an encampment, then yes, there’s likely some Syria-attached companies in the mix there too and nobody gives a shit about that (and it’s been actively killing more people per year than Israel for more than a decade)
How long will that rate of death last when they’re also causing mass famine while controlling the borders? You know starvation can cause number of deaths across a population to skyrocket, right?
She could get that for free from Biden, but why buy just one side in a two party system?
Predictable.
Yes, the one that has said for 50 years he will always support Israel no matter what…
Like,remember when he had that falsified report claiming no evidence American weapons had been used in the genocide?
He said that was why he could keep providing munitions…
Then there was an indisputable evidence of American munitions used in Raffah…
And he’s done…
What exactly?
Besides continuing to break US and international law by providing munitions used in a genocide.
Biden can draw asany lines as he wants, Bibi seems to enjoy leaping over them immediately. And it’s not like Biden has anything else he could be doing.
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Did you even read that two sentence article?
It doesn’t really provide any info, so not sure why you’re linking it.
But Biden’s “deal” is literally what Israel wants, it’s not even a permanent deal…
And Hamas isn’t accepting that, they accepted a deal that leads to a permanent ceasefire, not a 6 week pause.
That’s what Biden is pushing, Hamas gives up everything, and Israel tries to avoid killing civilians for a month and a half.
The Biden who had nothing to do with this article but you felt the need to bring up just to shit on anyway?
We all get it dude, you hate Biden. You can stop mentioning it in every fucking thread.
You spin me right round baby right round, like a broken record right round
Did you read about the Trump peace deal (organized via his kids!), which would require only Palestinians to make concessions, giving up land, giving up freedoms, being subject Israel’s security forces, giving them no rights, and which gave all power to Israel (and which obviously fell through)?
Biden applies political pressure on Netanyahu to push for ceasefire:
Trump plans to pressure Palestinians:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_peace_plan
The plan proposed a series of Palestinian enclaves surrounded by an enlarged Israel,
Netanyahu announced that the Israeli government would immediately annex the Jordan Valley and West Bank settlements while committing not to create new settlements in areas left to the Palestinians for at least four years. U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman claimed that the Trump administration had given permission for an immediate annexation, stating that “Israel does not have to wait at all”
The plan itself places no conditions on Israel with regard to proposals to “annex parts of the West Bank”.[8]
The plan puts the Palestinians on probation, establishing a set of conditions they must meet and adopting Netanyahu’s view that a shrunken Palestinian entity will be a state in name only; Israel will control of its borders, air space, electro-magnetic spectrum, foreign policy and security
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Have you seen Trump’s history of actions? It’s not what “might” happen, it’s a certainty he’ll make it worse
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Biden who canceled tons of student debt and supported unions, not supporting the working class?
Do you favor the Trump who supported companies above unionizing workers?
Yes…
It’s bad when trump supports a genocidal regime…
It’s bad when Biden supports a genocidal regime…
Now, here’s the big one. Get up and stretch, take a nice long deep breathe.
Ready?
It’s bad when literally fucking anyone supports a genocidal regime.
Here’s another big one:
If you excuse Dems for doing something because trump does it too, then if you don’t slow down and look around, you’re going to be supporting someone just like trump, because republicans found some asshole even worse.
Republicans won’t magically get better
I don’t excuse the dems, but you refuse to accept that Trump is 10 000x worse
Netanyahu would not be angry at Biden for his demands if Biden was fine with everything they do.
Netanyahu would not prefer to have Trump back if the two were equal.
but you refuse to accept that Trump is 10 000x worse
No I don’t, because he obviously is.
It’s just neither of them are good enough to be president.
Like,you know there’s not really a valid reason to run unpopular neoliberals just because trump is in office right?
We could just runnwhat Dems historically do very very well with:
A young charismatic person running a progressive campaign.
There is literally no reason to be running someone the majority of registered Dem voters don’t want to be president, just because they don’t want the Republican.
How does that system make any logical sense?
How will shit ever improve?
Ok, then tell me who that candidate is who can win instead of Biden.
I’m waiting.
I am not super fond of Biden, and wouldn’t mind seeing him replaced. But my top priority is harm reduction, and switching to a candidate who can’t beat Trump would send USA into turmoil
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Do you prefer the Trump who moved the US embassy in Israel?
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Are you once again expecting Biden to send the US military to enforce it?
Can you provide a link to this “save his election” Idea? I’m having a hard time finding anything that’s communicating his thoughts about that.
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Politicians are mostly assholes. We got this one to move in the right direction… his opponent is still advocating for “ending the war quick” and would likely start sending over war-crime munitions.
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He means this Biden
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit
March 22, 2024 - Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. The move marks the single largest land seizure by the Israeli government since the 1993 Oslo accords, according to Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group.
You mean the one who DIDN’T approve of those actions? Unlike Trump who explicitly revoked a policy against the settlements?
Okay so? Does Biden impose sanctions on israel now? Stop funding their Genocide?
Notice my article being newer than yours.
The only difference between Biden and Trump is lip service.
Ok, this is newer if you want to do it that way
See also
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/29/netanyahu-biden-gop-effort-to-sanction-icc-00160387
I don’t need the weekly Biden gaslight lip service I’ve already read it.
Biden is inviting Netanyahu over to speak in Congress so the uniparty can bow down to their glorious leader. He is not sanctioning israel and is continuing to send them weapons. Only some big bombs got held up but he made sure to send israel enough smaller ones. Weapon experts have left his administration over Bidens violations of weapons laws.
Biden has also rejected the ICC warrant already. Him not sanctioning the ICC barely makes a difference. You are truly looking for the smallest of differences here which says a lot about Biden.
So his old article doesn’t count because it’s too old, and the new one doesn’t count because you say so?
Fuck off with that.
You mean you’ve already decided before reading it because your opinion isn’t based on reality but a hunt for reasons to hate Biden
Even if Biden should do more, you’re deliberately pretending Trump’s record on this is unknown to be able to pretend they’re the same. I know you know how bad he is, and you’re lying about it.
Shhh, you’ll spoil the narrative.
Ah yes, here you are again turning a Trump article into a Biden hit piece in the comments.
You really need another hobby.
Billionaires gonna bill ya for air
Stupid orange bitch.
What a cutie. Looks like a lot lizard
You can thank the traitor cunt John Roberts for this.
Invasion. It’s an invasion. A clean sweep genocidal invasion.
Fuck wealthy assholes that think their opinion is more valuable than the rest of us.
Why vote when you can just buy an entire candidate?
They don’t buy the elections. There are way too many people watching the integrity of elections at least at the lower levels. This is why they have to gerrymander things and try tricks like voter ID laws.
And fuck a system in which their opinion’s correct
It’s called a plutocracy … a system built on power and those who hold power.
Whatever it is … it isn’t a democracy.
It’s not. At the end of the day, their vote is still just one of many.
Fucking vote. Get your friends to vote. Volunteer for a campaign. There are a ton of liberal groups that call people or knock on doors to get out the vote.
The only thing she has is money which hires… people to get out the vote. Commercials, endorsements, etc. none of that was enough to get Hillary elected. GOTV is what works. Fucking do it.
Poor wording, consider “in which they’re correct”
When people talk about the illegitimacy of democracy under capitalism, this scarecrow and her late husband are why.
How can democracy co-exist in an economic system where orgs are run like dictatorships from the top down, and individuals hold more wealth, power, and influence than entire nation states — despite those orgs employing, and being dependent on, thousands or millions of workers?
I’m no fan of capitalism, but this type of electoral dysfunction seems to run particularly deep in America. There’s many other democracies in capitalist nations that have the basic sense to treat such brazen bribery as a crime.
Citizen’s United means it literally is
Exactly, for all literal and realistic practical purposes, their opinion is absolutely more valuable than the rest of us. It’s not that they “think” it is, it’s a simple matter of fact.
and yet their necks are all roughly the same size as everyone else’s.
How very curious.
It will go down as one of Republicans most favorite rulings and also the worst ruling the scotus has made… (Insert homer and Bart meme: worst so far.)
Well step 1 is wage slaves need to stop worshipping these clowns. Won’t solve the issue but ateast reduce their ability to sway public opinion.
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Ya because that’s what matters here… Poor Mavs fans and their pr disaster.
A real eye opener for everyone (except Trump supporters) where some of the rich want the world to go to … (or am i right?)
You would think she could afford to go for a candidate who keeps their promises
I mean he seemed to do pretty well keeping his promises to billionaires actually. They got what they paid for
Even billionaires have to work with the two party system.
trumps top supporter in 2020 election has threatened to… support trump.
She’s orange as fuck too
She’s from Israel, she’s 78 and she’s got his (American, not relevant) husband’s money. She already supported Trump, who gave her some medal once elected.
Bye bye Miriam, despite your (husband’s) money, you will be forgotten
