tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35998080.post4728920727442838751..comments2023-07-14T06:48:20.774-05:00Comments on The Right Guy: Israel and the Rest of the WorldThe Right Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02000916651068780486noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35998080.post-91798977862579300172010-07-14T16:21:57.443-05:002010-07-14T16:21:57.443-05:00You made some excellent recommendations!You made some excellent recommendations!Faultline USAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35998080.post-63213640807207142882010-06-05T02:11:18.256-05:002010-06-05T02:11:18.256-05:00Although Saban has lived in the United States for ...Although Saban has lived in the United States for nearly thirty years, he remains deeply connected to Israel. He watches Israeli news shows, via satellite, throughout the day, and is a devout fan of the Ha’gashash Ha’chiver (Pale Pathfinder), a popular Israeli comedy troupe that performed for decades. “He knows every sketch of theirs by heart, and he uses their language very often when he speaks Hebrew,” his friend Dan Gillerman, the former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, said. His hundred-year-old mother and his brother live in Israel, and Saban travels there frequently. Through the years, one of his closest advisers has always been an Israeli and, in business meetings with others on his team, the two would occasionally slip into a side conversation in Hebrew. <br /><br />He remains keenly interested in the world of business, but he is most proud of his role as political power broker. His greatest concern, he says, is to protect Israel, by strengthening the United States-Israel relationship. At a conference last fall in Israel, Saban described his formula. His “three ways to be influential in American politics,” he said, were: make donations to political parties, establish think tanks, and control media outlets. In 2002, he contributed seven million dollars toward the cost of a new building for the Democratic National Committee—one of the largest known donations ever made to an American political party. That year, he also founded the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C. He considered buying The New Republic, but decided it wasn’t for him. He also tried to buy Time and Newsweek, but neither was available. He and his private-equity partners acquired Univision in 2007, and he has made repeated bids for the Los Angeles Times.<br /><br />By far his most important relationship is with Bill and Hillary Clinton. In 2002, Saban donated five million dollars to Bill Clinton’s Presidential library, and he has given more than five million dollars to the Clinton Foundation. In February, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a major policy address at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, co-sponsored by the Saban Center. And last November Bill Clinton was a featured speaker at the Saban Forum, an annual conference attended by many high-level Israeli and U.S. government officials, which was held in Jerusalem. Ynon Kreiz, an Israeli who was the chairman and chief executive of a Saban company and Saban’s closest associate for many years, attended the conference, and when I commented that his former boss appeared to be positively smitten with Bill Clinton, Kreiz replied, grinning broadly, “No! No! I remember once Haim was talking to me on the phone, and he said in Hebrew, without changing his tone so Clinton would have no idea he was speaking about him, ‘The President of the United States, wearing his boxers, is coming down the stairs, and I am going to have to stop talking and go have breakfast with him.’ <br /><br />http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/10/100510fa_fact_bruck?currentPage=2<br /><br />Thats right. Something is very very wrong.<br /><br />God bless.Bigmohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04854548053256307792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35998080.post-3812664015434062612010-06-04T20:20:44.927-05:002010-06-04T20:20:44.927-05:00Every country has their interests. The arabs were ...Every country has their interests. The arabs were eating sand when we showed them how to get oil out of the ground and in their haste to pay us back, their progeny fly planes into our buildings and decapitate hostages because they think it's cool. The real problem is not Israel. They don't strap bombs to their children and send them off to blow up a disco. They also don't decapitate prisoners. The problem is an age old fight where some muslims want to create a caliphate and seem to forget that Jews and Christians are people of the book. After all, Dhimmi and Jizya were expected of non-muslims living in muslim occupied lands. The truth is Israel allies itself with the US because they are alone, a small non-muslim democracy surrounded by third rate muslim despots. And by the way, who was in Israel first? Muslims didn't come about until Mohammed, which was long after the Jews were in the land that is Israel. The truth is also that arabs what to destroy Israel. To expect them to roll over and die is preposterous and from a religious standpoint, it's patricide.The Right Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02000916651068780486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35998080.post-48461395226255185722010-06-04T15:13:35.454-05:002010-06-04T15:13:35.454-05:00Yes, you are right. There is something very wrong....Yes, you are right. There is something very wrong. Very very wrong.<br /><br />http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/CofCchap7.pdf<br /><br />Take careBigmohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04854548053256307792noreply@blogger.com