Date: Tuesday, 16 July 2024
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/apparently-anti-israel-billionaires
https://theduran.com/apparently-anti-israel-billionaires-dont-exist/
Apparently, anti-Israel billionaires don’t exist.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)
A Google search for the phrase “anti-Israel billionaire” produces first the “Anti-Israel [alleged] Billionaire” Mohamed Hadid; second, the alleged “anti-Israel billionaire George Soros”; third, “anti-Israel billionaire” George Soros; fourth, “anti-Israel billionaire George Soros”; fifth, “anti Israel billionaire” George Soros; sixth, “anti-Israel billionaire George Soros”; seventh, “Anti-Israel Billionaire George Soros”; eighth, “anti-Israel billionaire George Soros”; ninth, “anti-Israel billionaire George Soros”; and tenth, “radical extremist anti Israel billionaire” Soros.
As regards Mohammed Hadid, he fails to show up in any list of billionaires, and the only site that claims to estimate his net worth says his fortune is $200 million. As regards Bill Ackman, Ctech headlined on 22 April 2024, “Bill Ackman: ‘Israel needs support more than ever and I can help’. The Jewish billionaire and founder of the Pershing Square hedge fund has been embattled in the fight against antisemitism and the defense of Israel [notice there the false underlying assumption that only anti-Semites oppose Israel] on social media and universities, and has no regrets.”
As regards George Soros, a Google search for the phrase “george soros” palestinians finds none that even alleges anything more as being evidence on the matter than that Soros’s “Open Society Foundations are profoundly concerned with the escalating violence of the ongoing Hamas-Israel war and urge all to support diplomatic efforts toward a humanitarian ceasefire and the release of all hostages.” This is and was also the U.S. Government’s official position. And it also “said in a statement [regarding some of its grant-money having gone to campus organizations supporting the rights of Palestinians] that it ‘has funded a broad spectrum of US groups that have advocated for the rights of Palestinians and Israelis and for peaceful resolution to the conflict in Israel.’” There is nothing pro-Palestinian about Mr. Soros.
What about the phrase soros israel? It too finds no evidence that he’s anti-Israel. One interesting find is from Turkey’s Anodolu Press Agency, headlining on 5 February 2018, “Soros denies funding Israel anti-deportation protests. Netanyahu accused Soros of funding protests against Israeli plans to deport African asylum-seekers.” Netanyahu, the Likud Party leader in Israel, is a Republican in the U.S., and Soros is the biggest of all lifetime donors (including from his Foundations) to America’s Democratic Party, as well as probably also to various liberal candidates in the European Parliament; and, so, it’s natural for Netanyahu to smear Soros in Israel, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that both of them aren’t racist-fascist imperialists (i.e., nazis), Netanyahu being of the conservative variety, and Soros being of the liberal variety — neither of them being at all progressive (supporting truth always against lies, and so being entirely anti-imperialistic), far less their being pro-Palestinian.
Another find from “soros israel” is that his son and new head of his Foundations, Alex Soros, tweeted on 1 November 2023, “This needed to be said: Israel Is NOT Committing Genocide in Gaza - Opinion - http://Haaretz.com” (He was so stupid as to have given there the wrong link; here is the correct link.) Subsequently, on 12 July 2024, The Times of Israel headlined “Soros’s son to marry Hilary Clinton’s former adviser Huma Abedin: Abedin is known for her former marriage to disgraced Jewish politician Anthony Weiner, who was jailed for sexting a minor.” On 11 May 2024, that same newspaper had headlined “Hillary Clinton: Anti-Israel protesters ‘don’t know very much’ about the Middle East: ‘Propaganda is not education,’ says ex US secretary of state, slamming campus activists for ignorance of Palestinians’ rejection of husband Bill Clinton’s 2000 peace initiative.” Ms. Abedin had been Vice chair of her 2016 Presidential campaign against Trump.
Obviously, then, the U.S. billionaire who is demonized by (Likud and Republican) billionaires as being pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel, is anti-Palestinian and pro-Israel.
So, it’s interesting that among America’s approximately 1,000 billionaires (the top 400 of which donate around 30% of all the funding to political campaigns in the United States) none supports the Palestinians against the Zionists who control Israel.
Furthermore: it is interesting how routinely false the ‘information’ is that’s found not only in the legacy ‘news’-media (which dominate online) but even in the ‘alternative’ online ‘news’-sites. This routine falseness displays how easy it is for a ‘democracy’ to be actually a dictatorship by all of the billionaires — both of the left and of the right — regardless of which Party any particular billionaire happens to favor.
Each individual has his/her personal prejudices — the assumptions that the given individual starts from and is inclined to apply to measure the truth or falsity of new allegations. (Of course, the fools of Democratic Party billionaires blame Republican voters, and the fools of Republican Party billionaires blame Democratic voters, though the actual source of these problems is all billionaires, and not their mere fools.) However, in order to be a scientist in any field, one must always rely ONLY upon the relevant evidence regarding it — one must NEVER rely upon one’s assumptions.
For example, after a lifetime of investigating the relevant evidence concerning the political preferences of billionaires, I now have an assumption that if a person is a billionaire, then ideologically that person cannot be a progressive or anything close to that — I’ve never yet found an exception to this general rule. I keep looking for an exception to it, in order to refine this rule so as to improve upon it. That is what scientists do. (Only fools believe the adage that “The exception proves the rule,” which is the opposite of the truth; the original and true version of this statement — from Cicero — having been “The exception tests the rule,” which is true, because if an exception exists, then the rule is false; and this is the reason why science makes advancements ONLY by finding exceptions.) Maybe this is one of the reasons why billionaires hate whistleblowers — a whistleblower seeks to make public any exception to what the stated rule is. A scientist is intrinsically a whistleblower, and thus endangers authority. A whistleblower seeks to make the truth public, whatever it may happen to be, and whomever it may endanger. This is the reason why billionaires oppose scientists and support only technologists. A society which serves scientists will be open to the possibility that technology might be able to become improved by replacing one or more of its assumptions. But such a society requires that billionaires don’t control it — that the Government rule over them, not serve them. Any billionaire who thinks that the Government should serve him or her, must be dispossessed of his or her property, because that person is a traitor to one’s nation, and certainly deserves to be dispossessed — if not worse. Any such person enormously endangers one’s nation.
But this also means that democracy is essential to progress, and that aristocracy (rule by and for the super-rich) retards if not ultimately ends progress. Ever since 1945, America has been an aristocracy — and especially so after 1990. And, so, for at least the past 25 years, the U.S. economy has been declining, and others have been rising to replace its former post-WW2 dominance. Whereas China has been leading this rise, Russia might soon be leading it even more. I expect that this replacement will likely happen only if and to the extent that the billionaires will be strictly required to subordinate their interests to their nation’s interests. Whether that will happen will be up to the country’s Government to determine, and certainly won’t be determined by its billionaires.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
