{"id":38755,"date":"2018-10-05T07:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38755"},"modified":"2018-10-05T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:42:28","slug":"best-government-money-can-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38755","title":{"rendered":"Best Government Money Can Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Very few Americans know who Sheldon Adelson is and fewer still appreciate that, as America\u2019s\u00a0leading political donor<\/a>, when he speaks the Republican Party listens. By virtue of his largesse, he has been able to direct GOP policy in the Middle East in favor of Israel, which might well be regarded as his true home while the United States exists more as a faithful friend that can be produced at intervals whenever Israel finds itself in need of a bit of cash or political cover.<\/p>\n

Adelson\u2019s recent successes in translating his political donations into policy favorable to Israel have included shifting the US Embassy to Jerusalem, cutting aid to Palestinians, ending the Iranian nuclear monitoring agreement and closing the Palestine Liberation Organization\u2019s diplomatic office in Washington. All those Trump Administration measures were reportedly worked out privately by Adelson speaking directly with the president.<\/p>\n

Adelson\u2019s activities in buying politicians reflect what he believes, he reportedly\u00a0having said<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthere\u2019s no such thing as a Palestinian.\u201d Nor does his world view include much concern for the country that has sheltered him and made him wealthy. He served in the US Army in World War 2 and has said that he\u00a0regrets having done so<\/a>, as he would rather have worn an Israeli army uniform. He also expressed his desire that his son might become an Israeli Army sniper.<\/p>\n

Adelson benefits from his exceptional access to the White House to the detriment of actual American interests. A\u00a0New York Times\u00a0article \u201cSheldon Adelson Sees a Lot to Like in Trump\u2019s Washington<\/a>,\u201d states that he \u201cenjoys a direct line to the president\u201d and meets the president monthly \u201cin private in-person meetings and phone conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Best Government Money Can Buy Very few Americans know who Sheldon Adelson is and fewer still appreciate that, as America\u2019s\u00a0leading political donor, when he speaks the Republican Party listens. By virtue of his largesse, he has been able to direct GOP policy in the Middle East in favor of Israel, which might well be regarded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[637,11407,8203,827,1174],"class_list":["post-38755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-politics","tag-sheldon-adelson","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-us-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38756,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38755\/revisions\/38756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}