Sheldon Adelson wants U.S. to nuke Iran, likens two-state solution to Russian roulette
By The Forward | Oct. 24, 2013 |
Haaretz
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Sheldon Adelson believes that allowing the Palestinians to have a state is like playing Russian roulette. He doesn’t know the difference between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims. And he thinks that being one of the richest men in the world is “better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.”
At a panel at Yeshiva University billed as asking the question “Will Jews Exist?" the actual subject appeared to be: “What does Sheldon Adelson think?”
Organized and moderated by Shmuley Boteach, the celebrity rabbi and author, the rambling two-hour October 22 talk hopped from whether Israel should bomb Iran without U.S. consent to whether President Franklin Roosevelt could have stopped the Holocaust. Co-panelists Richard Joel, the president of Yeshiva University, and Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens spoke when spoken to. But they mostly seemed along for the ride.
“With an existential threat against the state of Israel in the form of Iran… and with assimilation being so rampant in the United States, and with that devastating, catastrophic Pew research poll that just came out… we wanted to quickly pull a public forum,” Boteach said while introducing the event.
