A Rhino in the Dining Room
Not only is there a pachyderm in the living room - called AIPAC...
but it appears that we also have a rhino in the dining room !
Has anybody seen or heard tale of this clown ?
HAIM SABAN - MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGER
Given the strong scent of blood in the air, stemming from
the ongoing AIPAC scandal and imminent upcoming trial,
I thought it would be a good time for everyone to get better acquainted with HAIM SABAN . Toward that end, for a start,
I'm posting two essential articles from Muhammad Ahmad,
from his own excellent 'Fanonite' blog http://fanonite.org/about/
FBI's Expanded Probe and the Saban Factor
Fanonite - 10-27-06
Just when everyone thought the FBI investigation into the Israel Lobby’s role in manufacturing the case against Iran and Iraq was a dud - comes the following bombshell:
An explosive new report claims that the federal investigation into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee , the pro-Israel lobbying organization, has been expanded to include suspicion
of meddling in affairs of the House Intelligence Committee…
Last week, shortly after the surveys were released, Time magazine posted an article on its Web site alleging that the FBI is investigating claims of an improper deal between Aipac and Rep.Jane Harman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
Under the alleged deal — which both sides vigorously deny was ever made — the lobby would actively support Harman’s bid to become the next chair of the intelligence committee if the Democrats win control of the House. In return, Harman would
press the government to go easy on two former Aipac staffers Steve Rosen, and Keith Weismann being prosecuted under
the Espionage Act for allegedly communicating classified information to Israeli diplomats and reporters. ---( excised )---
The Time report cited in the article names Haim Saban, the billionaire Israeli media mogul and AIPAC donor, as one of the people who approached Pelosi on Harman’s behalf. Palestinian supporters would be well advised to keep an eye on this guy . He tops the list of contributors to the democratic party, already owns the largest private TV network in Germany, and
in 2006, acquired Univision Communications, the largest Spanish-broadcasting television company in the US for the price of USD 12.3 billion. The Economist quoted him as saying
“I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel” ...... It added:
At a broadcasting-industry conference last month in Cambridge, Saban not only expressed interest in acquiring ITV, but then went on to accuse the BBC and Sky News, a British satellite channel owned by Rupert Murdoch, of putting out biased, overly pro-Arab coverage of the Middle East. His audience was left with the impression that this was “a man motivated by editorial concerns, not a businessman,” as one broadcasting executive put it. Officials at Ofcom, Britain’s new media regulator, were amazed by what one called his “pig-ignorant” behaviour .
Saban also donated 12.3m dollars to establish the Saban Center at Brookings Institution which was seen as not being pro Israel enough, and thereby appointed Martin Indyk as its director.
http://www.brookings.edu/comm/events/20051111saban.htm
Saban Forum 2005
http://www.brook.edu/fp/saban/events/sabanforum2006.htm#TRANSCRIPT
Saban Forum 2006
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/events/sabanforum2005_proceedings.pdf
Saban Forum 2005 -proceedings PDF
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/June_2004/0406020.html
How to Fight the Mighty Morphin’ Neocons
Enemy Combatant: Saban at War
December 7th, 2006
The media has been at war with Palestinians for some time
and the charge has been led by the likes of Rupert Murdoch,
Conrad Black and Haim Saban .
( Dual ) Citizen Saban
Haim Saban is an Israeli-American media mogul with business holdings spanning four continents. He outbid Murdoch to acquire ProSiebenSat.1 Media, the largest private TV network in Germany, putting him ‘in control of a company that owns the rough equivalent of CBS, ABC, TBS and Nickelodeon’. In 2006, he acquired Univision Communications, the largest Spanish
broadcasting television company in the US for the price of
USD 12.3 billion. He has a controlling stake in the Israeli telecommunications monopoly Bezeq. According to Forbes,
his personal fortune stands at $2.8 billion .
http://www.atsnotes.com/catalog/israel/israel-38.JPG
One Issue Guy
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/spinoza09092004/
The man described by the New York Times as a
“tireless cheerleader for Israel” has been quoted
as saying “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel” .
Why is he so supportive of Israel? “I hate quoting Tom DeLay ,
I really do", Mr. Saban said. “If you’re going to quote me quoting Tom DeLay, say I hate quoting him.” He continued, apparently quoting Mr. DeLay, the House Republican leader: He said:
"It is the right thing for us to do to be supportive of Israel. The reasons go back to the beginning of time ".
Saban donated 12.3m dollars to establish the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution to produce pro-Israel propaganda and appointed Martin Indyk, founder of the AIPAC’s inhouse thinktank, Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
as its director. Explaining the rationale behind the Center,
Saban told the New York Times:
“I’ve heard from leaders on both sides of the aisle in the United States and leaders in Europe about what Sharon shouldn’t do,” he said. “But I haven’t heard one educated suggestion about
what he should do .”
Ha’aretz reports:
Since he lost the hold he had in the White House through his good friends Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution and the Saban Forum have become his levers of influence on political Washington and on Jerusalem…the ability of the colorful Israeli-American billionaire to bring together Ariel Sharon and Bill Clinton, Shimon Peres and Henry Kissinger, Tzipi Livni and Condoleezza Rice has become one of the achievements of which he is proud.
Only recently, Saban had courted controversy when he was mentioned as one of the people who had approached
Nancy Pelosi on behalf of AIPAC to get Jane Harman,
a pro-Israel loyalist, appointed as chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
Besides his political contribution Saban tells Ha’aretz that
he also intends to donate money to Israel. In a country where
40% of the holocaust survivors live below the poverty line ,
even as the state spends nearly $5bn a year on arming the military to combat stone-throwing Palestinian youth,
such generosity should clearly be welcome.
So who could be his intended beneficiary?
“Mainly combat units, that is the most important thing:
Housing for lone combat soldiers, free education
for combat soldiers, things like that.”
The Best Democrat Money Can Buy
As the single largest donor to the Democratic Party ,
Saban ensures that the gratitude is acknowledged:
“Haim Saban has been a very good friend, supporter and adviser to me,” Mr. Clinton said in an e-mail message. “I am grateful for his commitment to Israel, to a just and lasting peace [1]
in the Middle East and to my foundation’s work, particularly
on reconciliation issues
Effusive praise, of course, is not the only service Clinton renders in return. New York Times reveals:
Mr. Saban has not been shy about calling on his political friends to help sell advertising, too. This year, he invited Germany’s most prominent advertising executives to his home in Los Angeles for dinner with Mr. Clinton. The executives, he said, were stunned…
He and his wife, Cheryl…, slept in the White House several times during President Clinton’s two terms .
So how did this relationship come about?
“I know how it began. I began as a regular donor. A friend asked if I wanted to have breakfast in the White House. I said fine. And when I sat there, every time Clinton’s eyes met mine something started spinning in my gut. One thing led to another. Afterward, the whole family was invited to the White House. In the 2004 elections we watched the results together. Should I tell you that I don’t pinch myself? I’m sitting here, he’s sitting there, Hillary is there. Chelsea and her boyfriend are on another couch. And she keeps getting up to bring me Diet Coke and San Pellegrino bottled water. And both of us have our feet up and are watching the results in state after state until three in the morning.
Yes, I pinch myself.”
The relationship is odd enough to make even Saban wonder :
‘Sometimes I tell myself that there’s something a bit nutty here. He’s the president of the United States. I sell cartoons. So he is going to serve me and ask if I want regular or fizzy water?”‘
While Saban’s funds generally oil the Democratic machine, his politics would be quite at home with even the most reactionary fringe of the GOP. In the wake of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, however, Saban, along with Steven Spielberg, has shifted his loyalties to Arnold Schwarzenegger for his unequivocal support
of the destruction of Lebanon.
“On the issues of security and terrorism I am a total hawk,” he said. “I’m a Democrat for the reinforcement of the Patriot Act. It’s not strong enough. The A.C.L.U. can eat their heart out, but they are living in the 1970’s. We should all have ID’s. You betcha. What do you have to hide? Some friends of mine on the left side think I’m crazy.”
Friends in High Places
Clinton is hardly the only world leader taken by Saban’s “charms”. His ultra-Hawkish views endeared him to another Middle East “peace maker”...... Ariel Sharon
( so why not add an 800 lb. gorilla to the mix ? )
“To me he will always be a dear personal friend. Haim Saban is a great American citizen and a man who always stood by Israel and the Jewish people in times of need. His ongoing contribution to strengthening ties between Israeli and American leaders
of all parties has been quite remarkable and outstanding.”
The love, of course, is reciprocated:
“Sharon was a terrific prime minister. First of all as a
human being. He’s a sweetheart . I would phone him
and he would get back to me in five minutes.”
Of the new German Führer , Saban has the following to say:
“I do not belittle the fact that I can go to Angela Merkel
in the Chancellory and say, ‘Hi, Angela, how are you ?’
And she replies, 'Hi Haim, so nice to see you !’
I don’t minimize that. That’s a great pleasure.”
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[1] Saban’s vision for the “just and lasting peace”,
in a true sense of the word, is awe-inspiring:
“I think that any resolution will have to go both on the Palestinian side and Israeli side to some form of civil war. It’s not going to be without spilling blood.”
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Well, friends and neighbors, can we quote him on that ?
Heard quite enough for one day ? No ?
Then don't forget to tune in tomorrow for another gut-wrenching, hair raising, blood curdling episode of Qrswave's new daily serial - 'AIPAC' - "As The Worm Turns"
Enough to make your stomach turn!
Yuck!
Now more than ever we need Americans Against Zionists in Our Government!
or Americans Against ZOG! (for short)
It's our only chance.
btw, quas, wasn't it you who came up with 'as the worm turns'?
AIPAC is one big ass worm!
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"Money" has no value - people do.
How can the Western democracies accept a concentration of media power that limits the access to information and endangers the democratic processes themselves?
"His audience was left with the impression that this was “a man motivated by editorial concerns, not a businessman,” as one broadcasting executive put it".
Saban's primary concern is obviously to impose on his audience his "one issue guy agenda", not to spread news seriously and professionally.
The situation is precarious as we can see for ourselves from the fact that there is very little critical discussion about Israel in Western media. It is a paradox that you have to consult Israeli media to obtain a broader picture.
Hey Q ! If you think that's a stomach turner, just you wait ! That's only the first installment of - "As the Worm Turns"
-- which I've just gussied up with some more fresh links.
Maybe we should call it "As the Stomach Turns" , eh ?
I think you do have me to blame, however, for regurgitating that as a current title, ( which is no novelty on the web ).
I believe it originated from one of my multifarious replies
to our sly, slithering, sporadically re'turning' History 'Worm' -
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/584#comment-2614
As you'll no doubt discover, if you dare to look, there is an ensuing discussion about Anti-This and Anti-That, in a
futile effort to reach a consensus about what I should call whatever I'm really Anti- About to begin with.
So in order to avoid any of my typical "antisemantic" pitfalls such as those, I would suggest that we dispense with not some, but all of the predictable "Anties" - those negative little ant-eating worms that constantly turn and churn
in the national political landscape, undermining the debate.
As you have noticed, this obnoxious, rhinocerized Zionist worm I've circumscribed above is a perfect example of a Zionist in our Government, and he, or it, is not even working IN our Government, technically, although that certainly does seem to be the case in every other respect...
Although we Americans are but the latest in an endless stream of Governments to be afflicted with this ominous plague of worms - or maggots, as AZ -( "AGAINST -or
Anti - ZIONISM" ) prefers to call them ) we are certainly
not the only ones afflicted with a total disproportion of ZIONISTS IN GOVERNMENT, to say the least.
All that being said, I would actually prefer to finally cease
and desist with all those ineffectual, wormy little American "anties", in favor of a much more succinct and shorter motto, for which the "O" will serve, not to denote "OUR" government, but to determine "OUR" most desired outcome...... of finally
getting Zionists OUT of our government, and everyone else's government, where they have inflicted their insidious plague.
Therefore, I propose, for the sake of clarity, and brevity,
that we work towards a common objective on this BLOG,
and everywhere we possibly can, by forming a coalition
to get ZIONISTS OUT of GOVERNMENT ! - for Good,
for our Own Good, and the Greater Good, Amen !
So let us thereby designate this ongoing effort
as a 'ZOG BLOG', ( all subject, of course,
to your approval of such a designation ) --
and let this be an opening salvo
of the WUFYS-- ZOG BLOG ! --
ZIONISTS OUT of GOVERNMENT !