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 Sheldon Adelson proposed dropping a nuclear weapon in the Iranian desert as a demonstration to force them to do what they are told.

Sheldon Adelson proposed turning the Israeli-American council into a political lobbying group to rival the main Israeli lobby, AIPAC. Why? Because AIPAC supports a two state solution and continued aid to the Palestinians and Adelson does not.
Sheldon Adelson became a Republican after labor unions at his Las Vegas casinos sought higher wages for their members. He told Shelley Berkeley, a House representative from Nevada who worked for Adelson previously, that "old Democrats were with the union and he wanted to break the back of the union, consequently he had to break the back of the Democrats"
Sheldon Adelson donated $6 million to Newt Gingrich's PAC, American Solutions for Winning the Future. In 2012, he supported Gingrich for president. His wife contributed an additional $5 million with instructions to advance a "pro-Newt" message.
Sheldon Adelson has been a major supporter of Donald Trump, donating $113 million to the Republican National Committee, funneled through a number of shell PACs. He donated $500,000 to the Patriot Legal Defense Fund, set up to assist Trump administration aides who were targets of or refusing to cooperate with Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Sheldon Adelson donated $75 million dollars to Trump's PAC on October 15, and an additional $35 million by the end of the month to three Trump-allied PACS.
Sheldon Adelson, like Donald Trump, has a history of stiffing people who work for him. In 2013, he lost a $101.6 million judgment for violating a contract with a Hong Kong businessman who helped get him a license to operate in Macau.
In the same year, in a regulatory filing, one of Sheldon Adelson's properties, the Las Vegas Sands, admitted bribing Chinese officials for the Macau deal.
The National Jewish Democratic Council accused Adelson of personally approving prostitution in the Macau casino. Adelson sued for libel and lost. He was ordered to pay the NJDC's legal fees.
In 2019, Sheldon Adelson was sued under US human rights law for $1 billion alleging a conspiracy to expel all non-Jews from the West Bank and other disputed territories.
In 2014, Sheldon Adelson claimed that Palestinians were a "made-up nation" whose only purpose was to destroy Israel. He was a major supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu. He was an ardent opponent of all efforts to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Also in 2014, Sheldon Adelson said that Israel would not be able to survive as a democratic state, saying "So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what?" adding that democracy, after all, is not mentioned in the Torah, and recommended that the country build a “big wall” to protect itself, saying, “I would put up a big wall around my property.”
Sheldon Adelson pushed Trump to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem, an inflammatory move vigorously opposed by Palestinians. Later, he purchased the home of the US Ambassador in an apparent effort to prevent moving it back to Tel Aviv.
Shledon Adelson published a free daily newspaper in Israel called Israel Hayom, or Israel Today. It has been so supportive of all things Netanyahu, especially his move to annex the West Bank, that Israelis refer to the paper as Bibi-ton, or Bibi's news.
Sheldon Adelson was one of the architects of Jared Kushner's peace deal in the West Bank that dictated the terms of Palestinian surrender.
Sheldon Adelson was a Jewish bigot. He died today at age 87. Good riddance and the fly of my hand to him.
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