Talk:Sheldon Adelson/Archives/2015
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NYT Thomas Friedman
The following (and its Washington Post sources) might be a good WP:RS for some of the issues in this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/opinion/thomas-l-friedman-is-it-sheldons-world.html
Is It Sheldon Adelson’s World?
Thomas L. Friedman
The New York Times
MARCH 11, 2015
(Adelson spent $150 million in 2012 trying to defeat Obama. The most influential billionaire donor supporting Netanyahu and Likud. Israel has stricter laws on campaign contributions by individuals, so in 2007 Adelson started Israel Hayom, a free giveaway, whose only purpose is to back Netanyahu, attack his enemies, and enforce a far-right agenda to prevent any Israeli territorial compromise on the West Bank. Israel Hayom is putting a strain on Yediot and Haaretz. Adelson then bought Makor Rishon, which backed Netanyahu's right-wing rival, Naftali Bennett, who said, “It saddens me. Israel Hayom is not a newspaper. It is Pravda. It’s the mouthpiece of one person, the prime minister. At every junction point, every point of friction between the national interest and the interest of the prime minister, they chose the side of the prime minister.” Last November, at a conference, Adelson was quoted as saying that Israel would not be able to survive as a democracy: “So Israel won’t be a democratic state. So what?”)
--Nbauman (talk) 16:17, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Made a mass revert
I reverted Checkthe edits because he/she deleted rather large swaths of this article citing "no source" but the article where his quotes come from are from here this WSJ article which is sourced in the page. So maybe instead better citation marks should be added rather than doing a mass wiping. He/she did write some better headlines, but it was a little difficult were done separately... Strongsauce (talk) 05:52, 20 April 2015 (UTC)