“I’m a one-issue person. That issue is Israel.” — Sheldon Adelson
🧠 The Strategic Dilemma
Beijing has always known this: Taiwan cannot be unified by blood.
The Chinese people would endure famine, lockdowns, censorship. But not the televised slaughter of Taiwanese citizens, seen as their cultural kin.
The use of force would delegitimize the CPC in the eyes of its own people.
So how does China take Taiwan without taking it?
They needed a way out of country sized prison, a global distraction so immense, Washington turns its gaze elsewhere.
🎰 Enter Macau, Adelson, & the Mirage of the Middle East
In 2004, Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino mogul, opens Sands Macao with Beijing’s blessing earning billions from baccarat tables, untouched by CCP crackdowns.
That money is used to:
- Fund Israel Hayom, a free newspaper weaponized to put Benjamin Netanyahu back in power
- Lock up the GOP with unprecedented donations
- Push U.S. foreign policy into permanent alignment with Israel’s hardline agenda
Beijing watches with satisfaction.
🇮🇱 But Why Netanyahu?
Because Netanyahu is a coalition of contradictions and the only man who can keep Israel stable enough to be useful, yet fractured enough to be volatile.
- Ashkenazi pedigree, educated in the U.S., fluent in elite military doctrine
- Rules through Mizrahim (marginalized Middle Eastern Jews) with emotional, populist appeal
- Backed by Russian Jews, often hawkish, secular, and ultra-nationalist
- Supported by American Evangelicals, who see him as a messiah.
He converted America’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East” into a vessel for messianic ambition, a tool to rebuild the Third Temple.
🕍 The Deal:
Netanyahu offers Washington:
- A permanent frontline against Iran
- Religious myth fused with national interest
- A reliable “democracy” in a sea of oil autocracies
And what does Beijing get?
A blindfolded superpower.
🕸️ The Realignment
While the U.S. burns its attention on Gaza, Hezbollah, the Golan, the Abraham Accords & the JCPOA
China is:
- Building a Navy, Fortifying the South China Sea, Poaching TSMC engineers, Encircling Taiwan with no urgency or press coverage.
Because while D.C. debated prophecy and Palestine, the PLA prepared for Taipei.
