Alwaght - Uri Avnery, a Jew writer, in a paper on Counterpunch tries to project light on the dark side of Israeli regime as well as US corrupt systems.
Uri Avnery reveals Sheldon Adelson is the real ruler of Israeli regime and the US. 81-year-old Adelson is an American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world’s tenth richest person, worth 37.2 billion dollars at the latest count.
Avnery, sarcastically, writes that "Besides his casinos in Las Vegas, Pennsylvania, Macao and Singapore, he owns the US Republican party and, lately, both Houses of the US Congress. He also owns Binyamin Netanyahu."
According to Uri, Adelson and his wife, Miriam Farbstein, are fanatical supporters of Israeli regime. Not just any Israeli regime, but a rightist, supremacist, arrogant, violent, expansionist, annexationist, non-compromising, colonialist Israel.
In Netanyahu they found their man. Through Netanyahu they hope to rule Israel as their private fief, Uri believes.
The Jew writer claims that Adelson did an extraordinary thing to assure this. He founded an Israeli newspaper, solely devoted to the furthering of the interests of Binyamin Netanyahu. Not of the Likud, not of a specific policy, but of Netanyahu personally.
“Israel Hayom” (“Israel Today”) – a paper with unlimited funds, distributed every day for nothing in the streets and malls all over the country by hundreds, perhaps thousands of paid young persons.
According to Uri, Zionists love getting something for nothing. Israel Hayom is now the daily paper with the widest distribution in Occupied Lands.
Uri Avnery , who lives in Occupied lands, tells a story about the news paper from which he concludes that Adelson is Israeli regime's chief lawmaker or perhaps is its chief government-maker.
"Some members of the Knesset were encouraged to enter a bill forbidding gratis newspapers altogether.
Netanyahu and the Likud party did everything to obstruct this bill. But in the preliminary vote (necessary for private members’ bills) they were beaten in an amazing way. Even members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition voted for it. The cameras caught Netanyahu literally running in the Knesset plenum hall to gain his seat before the voting started.
The vote was 43 to 23. Almost half the Likud members absented themselves. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and his party voted for the bill. So did ministers Ya’ir Lapid and Tzipi Livni.
From the preliminary vote to the final adoption, such a bill has to pass several stages. There was plenty of time to bury it in one of the committees. But Netanyahu was furious. A few days after the vote, he dismissed Lapid and Livni from the cabinet, causing the government coalition to break up and the Knesset to disperse.
Why did Netanyahu do such a foolish thing less than half way through his (third) term of office? There can be only one logical explanation: he was ordered to do so by Adelson, in order to prevent the adoption of the law".
Money plays an ever-increasing role in politics. Election propaganda is made on television, which is very expensive. Both in Israeli regime and the US, legal and illegal funds pour into the campaign, directly and indirectly. Corruption is abetted or tolerated by the courts. The very rich (known euphemistically in America as the “wealthy”) exercise undue influence, Uri adds.
Uri Avnery goes further saying that Sheldon Adelson also manages US elections via his filthy moneys.
He reveals that in the last US presidential elections, Adelson poured rivers of dollars into the contest. He supported Newt Gingrich, and then Mitt Romney, with huge sums of money. In vain. Perhaps Americans don’t like to be ruled by captains of casinos.
For the next US presidential elections, Adelson has started early. He has summoned to his Las Vegas casino HQ all leading Republican candidates, to grill them on their allegiance to him – and to Netanyahu. Nobody dared to refuse the summons. Would a Roman senator refuse the summons of Caesar?
The Israel Hayom newspaper is, of course, a big propaganda machine, totally devoted to the re-election of Netanyahu. All quite legal. In a democracy, who can tell a newspaper whom to support?
Uri being angry with a foreigner, who never lived in the country, enormous power over Israeli regime writes that "That’s where Zionism comes in. According to the Zionist creed, [Israeli regime] is the state of the Jews, all the Jews. Every Jew in the world belongs to [Israeli regime], even if temporarily residing somewhere else. A few days ago, Netanyahu publicly claimed to represent not just the State of Israel but also the entire “Jewish People”. No need to ask them.
Uri put another example as another evidence for his claim, saying that "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 [Israeli regime] to a Democratic administration may seem strange. Not so strange if Netanyahu acted under the orders of Sheldon Adelson".
According to Uri, It was Adelson who prepared the witches’ brew that is now endangering Israeli regime’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 Uri "It is sheer madness to provoke the President of the U.S., who controls American’s flow of arms to [Israeli regime] 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".
