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Sheldon Adelson
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“What I would say is, "Listen. You see that desert out there, I want to show you something." ... You pick up your cellphone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say, "OK let it go." And so there's an atomic weapon, goes over ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn't hurt a soul. Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever. And then you say, "See? The next one is in the middle of Tehran." So, we mean business.”
Sheldon Adelson (1933–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[to the Iranians] You want to be wiped out? [...] Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development. You want to be peaceful? Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you can have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy purposes.”
Sheldon Adelson (1933–2021) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments at forum "Iran, Assimilation and the Threat to Israel and Jewish Survival" at New York's Yeshiva University, as cited in "Sheldon Adelson calls on US to nuke Iranian desert", The Times of Israel (24 October 201…
“In this country [Israel] the one thing the Jews have been searching for for 3,000 years is acceptance and assimilation. And now that we've achieved acceptance and assimilation, it's turning out to be our undoing. Without Birthright, there are statistics that have been proven at least twice that there's only 42% of Jewish kids between the ages of 18 and 26 that say they marry within their religion or bring up their children Jewish. 42% is less than half the remaining. In another two or three generations there won't be any secular Jews left. So this the most important program of my lifetime. All the kids that go to Birthright – the number jumps from 42% to 76%.”
Sheldon Adelson (1933–2021) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1 October 2016 IAC National Conference, Washington DC.