Politico reports: Sheldon Adelson has made clear for a while that he’s a single-issue voter, and that issue is Israel.
He writes in depth on the topic oJewish News (JNS.org), which carries content for the Israeli paper he owns, Israel Hayom, including some speculation about President Barack Obama’s position on Israel and its roots, and his own belief that he can’t be trusted on the topic:
Think about Obama’s anti-Israel friends and mentors—radicals like Rashid Khalidi, Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, or the late Edward Said, the virulently anti-Israel professor under whom Obama studied. Has he made anti-Israel promises to them? Is Obama’s campaign rhetoric in support of Israel only creating “space” till after the election?
These questions cause genuine worry in Israel.
Even some liberals now complain the president has lost so much Israeli trust that, in the words of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, “there is almost no chance of progress [for peace] if Obama wins re-election.”
Given that Obama’s public expressions are not something Israelis can rely upon, we need to take seriously the question: What are his second term plans when he no longer needs the Jewish vote?
