Adam Horowitz reports:
From JTA's report on Jewish givers to Clinton Foundation: (full list here).
Haim Saban, an AIPAC activist and the founder of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy [of the Brookings Institution], donated $5 million to $10 million to the former president's nonprofit organization, which raises money to fight poverty and HIV/AIDS. The foundation also provided the funds to build Clinton's library in Little Rock, Ark.
On guidestar.org, I looked up some of Saban's other big grantees:
2007 Saban Family Foundation
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces - $1.218 million (plus $8.5 million more approved to give in the future)
2007 Saban Charitable Support Fund c/o Jewish Charitable Support Fund
AIPAC $420,000
Friends of Israel Defense Forces $500,000
In all fairness, Saban's biggest beneficiaries in 2007 were several medical charities and hospitals. But it is interesting that the IDF donations were almost as significant as his signature Brookings donation (at least in 2007) which was $1.292 million (plus another $2 million approved). Too bad he's more associated with Brookings than with the IDF-- more than $10 million pledged. At least that way his bias would be more clear to American readers.
Also, the Clinton donor list raises the question - is there anyone Clinton won't take money from?
Weiss comments: This is fascinating. Walt and Mearsheimer pointed out the transformation of the Brookings from a place that had pushed for a Palestinian state under good William B. Quandt in the 1970s to a Zionist sock led by Saban and the irrepressible Martin Indyk. "Saban Center publications never question U.S. support for Israel and rarely, if ever, offer significant criticism of key Israeli policies. Moreover, individuals who stray from the Center's line do not remain for long..." And of course the Saban Center has provided a home to the leading tambourine-man of the Iraq war among liberals, Kenneth Pollack.
But I don't think anyone has picked up this devastating fact, published now on this website, by Horowitz. Today the world amazes me.
The FIDF is an organization that provides recreational facilities, purim packages, help for the families of fallen soldiers. I know that when it comes to a conflict between the IDF and Hezbollah for example Phil and his merry band root for Hezbollah to kill has many Israeli soldiers has they can and mutilate any that are captured. But some of us feel differently.
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit?
This is an absolute outrage. Someone explain to me why American taxpayers are subsidizing a foreign country's army.
FIDF support includes building, maintaining and operating 17 modern and sophisticated facilities, establishing and renovating hundreds of clubrooms and fitness rooms on IDF bases, and constant caring for each and every IDF soldier through a variety of unique programs
This is unphuckingbelievable.
How are the aliyah plans coming Bill? Got the movers scheduled yet?
Yeah, the FIDF is doing great work. Just read this touching testimonial: âMy battalion spends a lot of time in the Gaza Strip-the pressure is unbelievable! When you have a chance to get some rest and relaxation, you find yourself smiling and even laughing. Your spirits are lifted!â -Jeremy, Staff Sergeant with the Givati Brigade
Meanwhile, back in Gaza:
MRW, and don't forget the $3 billion a year US taxpayers are giving the IDF through US military aid.
Even Saban can't match those numbers.
Can't go yet D, your wife would miss me.
if these funds going to israel are deducted from taxes and im sure they are, the u.s. taxpayer, the general population, is making the contribution.
$20 to $30 billion (minimum) goes to israel from the usa each year. taxpaying population not deducting picks up tab.
Nice to know SOG loves US gentile tax dollars going to support the IDF. Fuck the American GIs, right SOG?
After all, why not, they have animal souls. SOG represents the
higher spiritual soul; nicht whar?
Don't put words in my mouth you low life piece of shit bridgeport mick bastard. I bet I give more to the USO than you pay in taxes. American soldiers are the finest people that we have. And if you think I wanted one of them to die in Iraq so a bunch of camel jockeys who like to fuck their child brides and who just recently discovered toilet paper could have a better society your out of your gin soaked Irish mind
Yeah, the GIs are the finest, the best that no jobs can provide. How many of them are proportionately Jews, SOG? Let's compare how many there, as compared percentage-wise, with the whole American GI troops; how many are in our USA congress. I don't think the goy GIs are dying to stop Arab child brides, they are just dying for Israel.
BTW, SOG, you take me for an Irish American. I take you for just a pure Jew, who happened to be born in the USA, lucky you. Am I right?
Frankly, not has many as there should be. And the invasion of Iraq has just put iran in a better situation. Which doesn't help Israel. Although I think that $33 oil is going to hurt them badly. Personally I think that at this point military service is a class thing. Tell me how many children of affluent families are in the service and that's an argument for bringing back the draft.
But i am interested in your theory of American GI's dying for Israel. Has far as I can see in the last 30 odd years we've gone to war to save Arabs not Jews. Perhaps when you cheer on Hezbollah you should reflect a little on the 241 marines that they killed in Lebanon.
Yeah, Sword, the 241 Marines who were killed policing a war started by Israel. By the way, what branch did you serve in?
SOG served in the Zionist unit of the Fi Lambda Lambda. The fight with the wrists and wallets.
Not to interrupt the fascinating flamewar, but the most relevant factor in the Saban investment in Brookings is not the amount, but rather the *timing.*
If Saban hadn't carved out ME Policy from the #1 most media cited think tank in 2002, it would have been hard to generate the appearance of full ideological spectrum support for the invasion:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/why-aipac-took-over-brookings/
With Indyk and Pollack braying for war, things fell in line.
http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2002/1219iraq_indyk.aspx
What else could you expect from a media savvy takeover artist? And AIPAC says it didn't lobby for the war…Hah! Many blame the Neocons for Iraq, but Saban played a major role too.
Still waiting for you Ed. Got a .50 ready to go.
Your a punk, SOG.
That was the classical sog way of saying he awaits Ed's comments but can only reply those with .5 times Ed's brainpower. Which, in truth, is an overestimation. In fact for the sog to reach a .5 Ed he will have to resort to a brain pool, more likely in ponzi style.
Well,here is what the US zionist Jews have caused.
With the help and support of the US congress and we taxpayers.
Anyone ready yet to Burn Washington To The Ground And Start Over?
Gaza likely to turn into Somalia if Israel continues siege
I am having a vision….of SOG, a twenty something jewish guy with a bad case of acne and a sexual disorder, hunched over his warrior keyboard in his parent's basement. Where he lives when he isn't working at the video store and dreaming of creating a video game in which Israel wipes out the Arab and goy world and he gets to be the camp commander of the gentile women's prison.
when you cheer on Hezbollah you should reflect a little on the 241 marines that they killed in Lebanon. whatâ?
Study your history. Hizbollah was created AFTER 1982 as a result of Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
Sword of Gideon, explain why Israel continued to bomb Lebanon in the last war with the full knowledge that the cease-fire was coming? They knew the war was "over" and yet they still went ahead and finished off with a bang.
It had no purpose other than to punish the Lebanese people.
1000 dead civilians. HRW documents that Israel used excessive and indiscriminate force in civilian sectors. There was no justification for their actions. It was a crime against humanity.
And yet, you continue to play down everything Israel does.
So Hezbollah is mutilating every Israel soldier huh? Well, Israel kills civilians on a regular basis. More civilians than Hezbollah by ALOT. Let's not even go into the stats between Israel and Palestine.
It's fucking disgusting how people like you are able to excuse these crimes. You have no sense of morality, only what's good for Israel or your "group."
Nazi pig.
Hezbollah has never been proven to have carried out the US Marine attacks. Never. It's just speculation.
On the other hand Israel bombed the USS Liberty. No one disputes that. But people like SoG will regurgitate the party line: "it was an accident."
So Hezbollah is guilty without trial or investigation, whereas Israel is innocent without trial or investigation or truth.
GJ pig.
"The Hamas team had not laughed so much in a long time. The team, headed by the prime minister [Ariel Sharon]'s advisor Dov Weisglass and including the Israel Defence Forces Chief of Staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened for a discussion with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on ways to respond to the [1/06 Hamas] election victory. Everyone agreed on the need to impose an economic siege on the Palestinian Authority, and Weisglass, as usual, provided the punch line: 'It's like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die', the advocate joked, and the participants reportedly rolled with laughter." (As the Hamas Team laughs, Gideon Levy, Haaretz, 22/2/06)
Weisglass is probably a big fan of Herbert Backe via Mazower:
'The Russian has stood poverty, hunger and austerity for centuries. His stomach is flexible; hence no false pity!'
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, Mark Mazower, 2008, p 147
Lebanese die because Nasrallah wants to kidnap Israeli soldiers to improve his chance of ruling Lebanon, and all Israel knows how to do is hit back.
Almost as many Israeli-Arabs died from Lebanese missiles as Jews.
People have the right not to die for some cynical fanatic's power-grab.
Herev Gideon,
Desert Eagle or M2-HB?
Darookh veNa'ul,
Eurosabra.
I know that you guys are a little weak on history but Hezbollah was formed in 1982. The Marine bombing was in 1983.
And LD, I'm just speculating that your mentally retarded.
The Desert Eagle.
There once again with the sanctimony that is typical of any Zionist.
Israel holds 10,000 Palestinians prisoner. Barack himself said he wanted to use Lebanese as "bargaining chips."
Hezbollah was formed because of the Israeli aggression in Lebanon.
It was not formed out of no reason to destroy Israel. I know it helps you deal with your crimes to think of your enemies as comic book villains.
In any case, 1000 dead civilians, vast damage to the country, etc. All for how many kidnapped Israelis?
This is pure insanity. The only reason you can speak this way is because you're on the powerful side (Israel).
The difference between America and Israel is that while America is much more powerful, it has a sense of right and wrong. Our government may not have morals/etc. but we, the people do.
Zionists are like any other nationalists. They only care about their own interests.
There is a legacy of freedom and struggle in the US. Non-violent struggle. Dissidence. Protest.
Israelis have no unique thought. They just make war. Now, the Neocons and Zionists have seized the American government and continue to reward the disgusting behavior of Israel.
This is why you succeed. Because of MONEY. You can have all the guns in the world but it won't buy you integrity.
It's just a shame that's the way the world works. Let's hope there's a God.
It's also true that Israel killed mostly civilians while Hezbollah's kills were mostly IDF…
I wonder how many marines would have died if the U.S hadn't been funding and supporting the destruction of Lebanon the previous year – due in no small measure to the push of the Israel lobby, who went into overdrive spinning the reasons why Israel had to kill so many civilians and why they had to occupy southern Lebanon…
Eurosabra:
Almost as many Israeli-Arabs died from Lebanese missiles as Jews.
Colin:
That is an interesting observation. A very large part of the bias in death rates is due to two unfortunate facts, which have been noted by observers in Israel long before the latest invasion of Lebanon. First, the Israeli government has spent far less per capita building shelters for Israeli Arabs, so even a completely random distribution of rocket strikes is going to show a marked proportional bias in killing them. Second, the Israel government has a long standing policy of building military and defense-industry installations close to population clusters of Arabs: it gives a great excuse to ethnically cleanse them via eminent domain: we need that land to provide security around this vital facility, lol, from the Arabs that we just built it next to. :derisive snickers are appropriate here: It is a clever ploy, and also has the added benefit allowing Israel to claim that Hezbollah is shooting at civilians, when comparison of the impact pattern of their UNGUIDED rockets is very likely consistent with the notion that they were trying to hit military targets, but the inevitable spread of their UNGUIDED rockets around the target point ensures that civilians will be hit. If we gave Hezbollah guided missles (like we give and subsidize the Israeli building of) I have little doubt the number of impacts in civilian areas would plummet. Apologies to the arch-fool Donald Rumsfeld, but you go to war with the rocket arsenal you have, not with the rocket arsenal you wish you had.
Indeed, the fact that Israel has classified as a state secret impact location data lends considerable credence to the notion that they fear an impartial analysis with respect to proximity of local military targets would lead to embarrassing questions. I read of a BBC camera crew that speculated along those lines after observing strike patterns from hills overlooking Israel civilian areas, and the curious symmetry with respect to a local port facility, a legitimate target by Israel standards, which include everything manmade that is not already burning rubble, and were promptly escorted from the area after making their first international report.
It's all part of the spin game, and there are a lot of fools in the world who buy the Israeli narrative. I think it hysterical when Israelis criticize Hezbollah as 'hiding' in civilian areas. LOL Hezbollah are a local defense force. They are fighting in areas of Lebanese civilians because they are themselves civilians and THEY LIVE THERE. Israelis are staggering hypocrites: it is the IDF that 'hides' in their own civilian areas (staging areas for the invasion close to the Lebanese border were all located in Israeli towns). And finally, it is always worth putting aside speculation, no matter how well informed, and with cold clinical clarity just plain count the reeking corpses: most dead Lebanese were civilians, and most dead Israelis were IDF.
No doubt that Sword of Gideon is a member of the "Jewish Internet Defense Force," an international organization which hates free speech and seeks to expose what they call "cyberterrorism" –