Next Tuesday night at the Waldorf, there’s a $1000-a-plate dinner to support the Israel Defense Forces. The video above, by a coalition of protest groups, says that 1,200 tickets have been sold. Their demo begins at 5 pm at 53d and Lex. They are urging demonstrators to wear black.
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Do we have $1000 plate dinners supporting the US Army?
Hey don’t you remember how (during the early years of the Iraq War2 especially) the grunts’ families sent them expensive kevlar vests the families purchased themselves?
That’s nothing to sneeze at! You go to war with what you got, said Rummy, and
you eat what’s on your paper plate.
Also, we can’t afford a$1,000 plate dinners for our grunts–we send that money to each Israeli.
we send that money to each Israeli.
Many Israelis are thankful. I think. Anyway, living in Israel is actually great if you can perfect the following:
link to tinyurl.com
It’s like a mafia don soiree. Can’t the FBI raid this party?
Yeesh. The propaganda-style presentation was a little disturbing, but I certainly support the march. Enjoy the smoked salman, rich old chickenhawks. God/karma/the human race is watching, and so is your own stunted conscience.
And what smart-ass jew-hater placed that book My Father Was A Freedom Fighter on our chairs?
link to electronicintifada.net
Besides the 5pm silent march against the Friends of the IDF dinner, there is another demonstration Mondoweiss readers should know about. There is a protest rally in front of the Waldorf Astoria at 6pm which will have a sound system. It’s organized by Al Awda a Palestinian led organization. So don’t slight one action for the other. One could actually participate in both.
The New York Friends of the Israeli Wehrmacht will have to go some way to top the success of a similar dinner held in Beverly Hills last December in which $5.2 million was raised, all of which was tax-exempt.
That more than doubled the take of a similar dinner held a week before Israel launched Operation Cast Lead in which only $2. 1 million had been raised. Obviously, by more than doubling the previous year’s haul, LA’s wealthy Jews wanted to send a message of support to Israel while extending their middle fingers to Judge Goldstone. Here’s how Orit Arfa of the LA Jewish Journal reported on it:
link to jewishjournal.com
circuit/article/stars_shine_on_friends_of_idf_gala_fundraiser_20100105/
The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region gala,
held Dec. 17, 2009, at the Beverly Hilton, raised more than $5.2 million
to benefit IDF soldiers through the various FIDF programs. Paul Guerin,
president of the Western Region group, began the evening’s program with
the announcement that he and his wife, Vera, would give $1 million, half
of which will be dedicated to supporting FIDF’s IMPACT! scholarship
program that provides college scholarships to former combat soldiers
with limited financial means.
At the sold-out gala, event chairs Cheryl and Haim Saban then said they would match the $1.6 million already raised, followed by two additional $500,000 pledges by Victoria and Ron Simms, and Erika Glazer.
The ceremony opened with 29 IDF soldiers who had lost a sibling or
parent to Israel’s wars saluting the American and Israeli flags, along
with four U.S. Marines who had served in Iraq. Rabbi Isaac Jeret of
Congregation Ner Tamid and FIDF Los Angeles Chapter Vice President led
the 1,000 audience members in the blessings over the bread and gave an
invocation comparing the lights of Chanukah to Israel’s military defenders.
Jason Alexander of “Seinfeld” fame volunteered his time to serve as
emcee for a crowd consisting of the “who’s who” of local Israeli
American and American Jewish philanthropic society. Gala co-chairs also
included: Adele and Beny Alagem; Joyce and Avi Arad; Steve Bing; Joyce
and Stanley Black; Ruth and Leo David; Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer and Mel
Keefer; Erika Glazer; the Guerins; Sue and Larry J. Hochberg; Israeli
Leadership Council; Jena and Michael King; Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort;
Nathalie and Maurice Marciano; Katherine Merage; Soraya and Younes
Nazarian; Fela and David Shapell; Victoria and Ron Simms; Adi and Philip
Werthman; and Lila and David Wiener.
Other dignitaries, city officials and celebrities present included
former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky; L.A. Consul
General of Israel Jacob Dayan; Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca; and
Sylvester Stallone. Israel’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi sent
his support via telecast.
But those who received the real “star” treatment were Israel’s finest,
who addressed the audience. They included Lt. Daniel Sahalo, an
Ethiopian immigrant who received an IMPACT! scholarship upon completing
his service as a paratrooper; an Israeli Air Force sergeant whose father
had been killed in a terrorist attack; and a female Apache combat
helicopter pilot who elicited the most cheers for her rare and coveted
status.
In his remarks, entertainment and media mogul Saban credited Israel’s
economic achievements and technological innovations to the IDF, saying,
“Israel’s many successes, including in the world of technology, [have
their] roots in the military. These young men and women learn what
teamwork, leadership, mission-oriented skills and experience really
mean. If you mix these lessons they learn in the military with the
abrasive individualism — or in other words, Israeli chutzpah — you would
better understand why Israel, a tiny nation of immigrants torn by war,
has in fact become the first technology nation in the world.”
He concluded with a message to Israel’s would-be destroyers, saying,
“You better find a different dream, because this one isn’t coming true.”
The evening was capped with a performance by 12-year-old Shaheen
Jafargholi, a finalist in “Britain’s Got Talent” who had performed at
Michael Jackson’s televised public memorial service, and the Four Tops
singing classics including “Baby, I Need Your Lovin’.”
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Jeffrey: not much sidewalk at the Waldorf, so it should be interesting. :)
There were no protests of which I was aware or that were reported in the Jewish or mainstream media of the Beverly Hills events. Since most pro-Palestinian activists in California don’t bother to read the Jewish press, unlike their Zionist mirror opposites who monitor everything everywhere that criticizes or even mentions Israel, they probably didn’t even know it was happening, preferring useless protests at Israeli consulates.