Jewish Supremacist and casino billionaire Sammy Adelson–who poured $53 million into Mitt Romney’s election campaign against Barack Obama–has come out in support of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) which yesterday sent an “action alert” to its 45,000 members, directing them to tell Congress to authorize force.
According to a report in Bloomberg News, the RJC said “This is not a partisan issue.” The RJC’s counterpart, the National Jewish Democratic Council, aslo added its voice to a chorus of U.S.-based Jewish groups urging military intervention.
Others include AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Adelson, a Las Vegas casino owner, supports the RJC’s Syria message, his spokesman Ron Reese said in an e-mail.
According to the Bloomberg report, the “support Obama is getting from pro-Israel groups in the U.S. is important because of their history of political influence.
“The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other Jewish groups have long helped secure continued U.S. aid to Israel, mobilizing activists who visit or call lawmakers.
“The effort is supplemented by several political action committees that donate to candidates depending on their support for Israel.
“The pro-Israel community contributed $14.5 million to federal campaigns for the 2012 elections, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
“That’s more than the $11.1 million in donations by the defense aerospace industry, one of the biggest and most consistent political contributors.
“While most of the Jewish groups’ donations lean Democratic, Adelson alone transformed the 2012 Republican primary when he and his wife used $15 million in private funds to sustain the unsuccessful candidacy of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and then poured $53 million into groups advancing Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
“In all, Adelson and his wife donated $93 million to Republican causes in the 2012 campaign, center data shows.”
The clear understanding that the real target of the Jewish Supremacist aggression is Iran, is also made clear in the Bloomberg report.
“Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said the group decided to act before the Jewish high holidays, when rabbis will likely speak on Syria. Rosh Hashanah begins tonight,” the report continued.
“Jewish groups said their concern was that a failure to take action against Syria would send lessons to other countries, most notably Iran, that they could act with impunity. ‘This is a critical moment when America must also send a forceful message of resolve to Iran and Hezbollah,’ AIPAC said… ‘Failure to approve this resolution would weaken our country’s credibility to prevent the use and proliferation of unconventional weapons and thereby greatly endanger our country’s security and interests and those of our regional allies.’”
There is one small spot of good news: the Bloomberg article also reported that the Jewish Supremacist’s pro-war campaign “is bumping up against an American public largely opposed to taking action in Syria. A Pew Research poll released yesterday that was conducted Aug. 29-Sept. 1 showed 48 percent opposed, while 29 percent favored air strikes in Syria.”
Image: top: John Kerry/Kohn, 1971: Opposes war before the US Senate. Bottom: John Kerry/Kohn, 2013, proposes war before the US Senate.
