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Sent: 8/2/2012 5:57:19 PM 
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fwd: Why not in Vegas? 
Importance: High 
Why Not in Vegas? 
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN 
Published: July 31, 2012 418 Comments 
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I'll make this quick. I have one question and one observation about Mitt Romney's visit to Israel. The question 
is this: Since the whole trip was not about learning anything but about how to satisfy the political whims of the 
right-wing, super pro-Bibi Netanyahu, American Jewish casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, why didn't they just 
do the whole thing in Las Vegas? I mean, it was all about money anyway — how much Romney would abase 
himself by saying whatever the Israeli right wanted to hear and how big a jackpot of donations Adelson would 
shower on the Romney campaign in return. Really, Vegas would have been so much more appropriate than 
Jerusalem. They could have constructed a plastic Wailing Wall and saved so much on gas. 
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031705 
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The observation is this: Much of what is wrong with the U.S.-Israel relationship today can be found in that 
Romney trip. In recent years, the Republican Party has deci

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