His appearance (click here) at Sheldon’s event is an early and important indication. It’s perhaps not decisive, but it is clear that he has concluded there’s nothing wrong, politically or morally, with paying homage to a loyal-to-Israel warmonger. For all those who might have hoped Jeb had learned something useful from the failed presidency of his brother, it’s a pretty clear indication. Most probably, he has not.
For all the intent to bring about a peace of a two nation solution, there are powerful Republicans that would see Palestine ethnically removed from the face of Earth as well.
With the ability of such lobbyists and billionaires in USA politics there is defiance to allow Palestine to exist in any election. In order for the USA to put pressure on Israel to end their ethnic cleansing in at the very least The West Bank, there needs to be efforts to end the hatred readily at hand in USA elections.
Don't take my word for it. I don't stand alone.
Sheldon Adelson’s culture of hate (click here)
If anyone said about Jews what the American Jewish billionaire says about Palestinians, he’d be considered a Jew-hater in the same league as Farrakhan and Ahmadinejad.
By Peter Beinart
Apr. 2, 2014
12:30 PM
...Think I’m exaggerating? Let’s check the record. Adelson has called for nuking the Iranian desert (which supposedly wouldn’t “hurt a soul”) and then nuking Tehran unless Iran abandons its nuclear weapons program. I’m all for Iran abandoning its nuclear weapons program. But how does threatening Tehran with nuclear annihilation make Adelson any different than those Iranians who have threatened to destroy Israel?
Then there’s Adelson’s view that the Palestinians are an “invented people.” Again, flip it around. In 2008, when Tel Aviv University’s Shlomo Sand published a book called “The Invention of the Jewish People,” he was widely called anti-Semitic. When Adelson says the same about Palestinians, he’s a Republican rock star.
This isn’t hawkishness. It’s hate. Hawks acknowledge that there are divisions among Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, but argue that, at this moment in time, the forces of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic militancy have the upper hand. For Adelson, by contrast, there are no distinctions. All Palestinians and all Muslims are detestable killers. It’s just who they are. “There isn’t a Palestinian alive who wasn’t raised on a curriculum of hatred and hostility toward the Jews,” he told the Jewish Press in 2011....
It is time for Palestinian leadership to stop smiling politely as if Israel is an earnest participant in peace and a two nation solution. It is time for Palestinian leaders to point to hate mongering and insults against it's sovereignty deeply bargained for by past Israeli leaders of great esteem, namely Ariel Sharon.
The current Israeli leadership are not building on Sharon's directive, but, have used any rocket across it's border as a greater and greater reason to foment hate.
There are many, many Israeli leaders that have moved forward to create and stabilize a Palestinian nation. There have been great Palestinians that have bargained with death to move the nation forward. These leaders and their vision cannot be abandoned for a 'power base' of USA Republican politics that seek ethnic cleansing as a solution to 'THE PROBLEM.'
Israel has been recognized to exist which is guaranteed to them by the support of the USA for over sixty-five years now. Israel is an important ally, but, so are the Palestinians that exist as a nation within the Israel borders. They have a right to a permanent Homeland. The UN Resolution regarding Israel occurred in 1947. It is long overdue that Palestine be formed with a resolution guaranteeing it's right to exist as well.
The greatest hurdle to Palestinian nation stability are the very boundaries of that nation of people. They need a Permanent Nation solution with clearly defined borders that limit Israel's aggression and defeats Israel's extremist settlers.
Israel's withdrawal from peace talks is absolute proof of a strategy against Palestine. It is time to move the Palestinians agenda for an independent homeland forward and limit the ability of Israel to redefine and redefine it's own borders. In redefining it's borders lies the aggression of ethnic cleansing and it has to end.
Israel's chronic objections to settling Palestinian borders is due to 'indefensible borders.' That is not going to change no matter the size of the Palestinian Homeland, so it is time to end the fantasy of defensible borders by the Israeli leadership. It is a hideous EXCUSE never before used as a strategy against a nation of people.
It is absolutely amazing what a small country, such as Israel, can do to an entire region's stability. Jordan should have such power for the Palestinians it houses as refugees.
