One provided more than $100 million to the Republicans, the additional has been the Clintons’ largest backer. Currently billionaires Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban, split on U.S. politics, have unified to battle boycott threats against Israel.
Adelson and Saban hosted a meeting of pro-Israel business executives and activists over the weekend in Las Vegas, to commence an effort aimed at countering the increasing threat of international sanctions in opposition to Israel.
“That he’s a Democrat and I’m a Republican has really very little to do with it,” stated Las Vegas Sands Corp. founder Adelson, who holds the 25th position on Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, in a shared interview with Saban on Israel’s Channel 2 on Saturday. Whereas you can “rest assured” the 2 men will not be boosting the same person in the 2016 presidential election, Saban stated, “when it comes to Israel, we are absolutely on the same page.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recognized the global pattern to boycott, divest and sanction Israel over its scheme toward the Palestinians, known as the BDS movement, as a significant threat.
The boycott concern gathered new popularity after Stephane Richard, chief executive officer of Orange SA, stated on Wednesday that the Paris-based telecom company would end its licensing contract with Israel’s Partner Communications Co. “tomorrow” if he was not worried about legal consequences. Richard later apologized for his remarks, made in reaction to a question over a threatened boycott of Orange’s Egyptian subsidy, Mobinil, and explained they weren’t inspired by political concerns.
Out and Out Lie’
The Israel-born Saban, who is the owner of a controlling stake in Partner, called Richard’s logic “a blatant lie.”
“Any company that chooses to boycott business in Israel, they’re going to look at this case, and once we’re done, they’re going to think twice about whether they want to take on Israel or not,” he stated.
BDS supporters point out their tactics are the only useful means of getting Israeli to stop building West Bank settlements that most of the world percives as illegal under international law, and an obstacle toward peace with the Palestinians.
Israeli officials view the BDS movement as part of a campaign by the Palestinians to delegitimize their country. West Bank settlements are not the real goal of BDS supporters “but our settling of Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Haifa, and of course, Jerusalem,” Netanyahu stated on Sunday.
Anti-Boycott Law
South Carolina on Thursday became the first U.S. state to sanction a new law created to counter Israel sanctions. The legislation stops public bodies from doing business with those involved in the “boycott of a person or an entity based in or doing business with a jurisdiction with whom South Carolina can enjoy open trade.” Other states are weighing, or in the process of granting, similar measures.
Adelson and Saban’s financial muscle and political effect may boost attempts to counter the BDS movement and score some personal achievements, mentioned Gadi Wolfsfeld, political science professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It will not be enough to counter the bigger trend of Israel’s growing diplomatic isolation, he included.
“If they sponsor serious research which comes up with damaging facts that can hurt the legitimacy of the BDS movement, and publicize that among the world’s political and business elites, that can have an effect,” Wolfsfeld stated. “But the overall political movement, related to the general feeling that Israel has no intention of ever leaving the territories and the international community’s growing frustration over that, is not going to be stopped.”
Blames Netanyahu
Israeli lawmaker Isaac Herzog, head of the resistance Zionist Union party, mentioned Netanyahu’s policies must share some of the responsibility for the tide of international disapproval.
Fighting against the sanctions movement calls for “a strong and very close connection with the administration in Washington, and a diplomatic initiative to alter our situation,” Herzog stated Sunday on Israel Radio. “Netanyahu has failed at both.”
Some members of Netanyahu’s Likud party and other factions in his government are at odds of any subside to the Palestinians. One such politician, Education Minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett, stated Sunday that the best reply to the BDS movement was building more Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
“We will attack our attackers,” Bennett stated at a meeting in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv. “We will boycott our boycotters.”
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Let these overly obese slobs use their cash, not ours….These joo lovers have raked us over the coal long enough. That fat pig Sheldon Adelson has made his money through casinos, basically taking money through gambling and 1000 to 1 odd no win deception.
A true piece of sh.t, married to greed and power through our money transferred to his fat ass joo pockets.
I guess indirectly he is using our money whether we like it or not. If you have ever seen Adelson up close you would think he was from another planet, ugly as sin, WITH ALIEN FEATURES.
4 out of 5 billionaires are Jews, so this is no surprise, but it’s not going to work.
I might be wrong, or the number may have been changed, but you used to be able to know if a product came from Israel by the last three digits on the UPC code (that’s the bar code on everything you buy) 721 meant it was made in Israel.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong here, because I want to make sure I’m not buying anything from these ghouls.
You might be wrong. I think the last three digits on the UPC that signify whether a product was made from Israel or not is 666. 😉
“Any company that chooses to boycott business in Israel, they’re going to look at this case, and once we’re done, they’re going to think twice about whether they want to take on Israel or not,” he stated. “One word… Mossad” he added.