The far-right GOP and Israel funder Sheldon Adelson gets honored in Jerusalem and the details and quotes,
here in NYT tonight, will probably appall you. Complete with crooners flown in from his $2.4 billion casino.
As for the Palestinians, Mr. Adelson said, “They teach their children
that Jews are descended from swine and apes, pigs and monkeys.” Then he
questioned their existence as a distinct ethnic group, saying they were
“southern Syrians” or Egyptians until Yasir Arafat, who was leader of
the Palestine Liberation Organization, “came along with a pitcher of
Kool-Aid and gave it to everybody to drink and sold them the idea of
Palestinians.”
These ideas, staples of the far right, are deeply offensive to the Palestinians — perhaps partly the point.
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