Key excerpts from Connie Bruck's profile of Democratic moneybags Haim Saban in the New Yorker. I do wonder (not having read the piece; this is social media; a trusted friend sent me the excerpt) whether Bruck slighted the Israel lobby angle, as she did in her profile of Saban's Republican doppelganger Sheldon Adelson. Remember that Bruck is herself married to a stalwart in the lobby, former California congressman Mel Levine who as I recall was courting Saban for Obama 2 years back.
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.
In targeting media properties, Saban frankly acknowledges his political agenda. He has tried repeatedly to buy the Los Angeles Times, because, he said, “I thought it was time that it turn from a pro-Palestinian paper into a balanced paper.” He went on, “During the period of the second intifada, Jews were being killed every day over there, and this paper was publishing images of a Palestinian woman sitting with her dead child, and, on the Israeli side, a destroyed house. I got sick of it.” Saban said he tried to buy the paper in 2007 but lost to Sam Zell, who purchased the Tribune Company, including the L.A. Times. In early 2008, he says that he tried to buy the paper from Zell but that Zell wanted more than he was willing to pay. After the Tribune Company went into bankruptcy, in 2009, Saban said he informed the creditors of his interest. “They’re not going to do anything until they get out of bankruptcy. So am I still interested in the L.A. Times? I am, yeah, I am,” he said. Saban also said that he asked the New York investor Steven Rattner to let the Sulzbergers know that he would like to buy the New York Times, but Rattner told him they weren’t interested. “What’s it worth now, the whole thing—a billion dollars?” Saban said dismissively. “But it’s a family legacy or something, I don’t know.” If the Sulzbergers were to change their minds, he said, “I would be jumping all over it.”
As Saban has said, “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.”
For example, Saban continued, “Obama was asked the same question Hillary was asked—‘If Iran nukes Israel, what would be your reaction?’ Hillary said, ‘We will obliterate them.’ We . . . will . . . obliterate . . . them. Four words, it’s simple to understand. Obama said only three words. He would ‘take appropriate action.’ I don’t know what that means. A rogue state that is supporting killing our men and women in Iraq; that is a supporter of Hezbollah, which killed more Americans than any other terrorist organization; that is a supporter of Hamas, which shot twelve thousand rockets at Israel—that rogue state nukes a member of the United Nations, and we’re going to ‘take appropriate action’! ” His voice grew louder. “I need to understand what that means. So I had a list of questions like that. And Chicago”—Obama campaign headquarters—“could not organize that meeting. ‘Schedule, heavy schedule.’ I was ready and willing to be helpful, but ‘helpful’ is not to write a check for two thousand three hundred dollars. It’s to raise millions, which I am fully capable of doing. But Chicago wasn’t able to deliver the meeting, so I couldn’t get on board.”
Phil is also a one issue guy. What is the problem with Saban?
He is not doing anything illegal and he is transparent about what he does do.
The Arabs are way richer than Saban. Why not get them to do the opposite of what Saban does instead of complaining?
The problem with Saban is that he is a one-issue guy: Israel. He’s not a two-issue guy, which would be logical given he is a dual citizen of the US and Israel. So, there’s a problem, and given his money, and the US political campaign funding system, it won’t go away unless you pretend the US and Israel’s interests are always the same. Do you think they are the same, eee? You see no conflict of interests at all there?
The Arabs have had no domestic pull in the USA since Truman, and for the reasons Truman said. But you know that.
link to biggovernment.com
Saban is nowhere near a one-issue guy. Where did you invent that from?
Gee, Dick Witty, shouldn’t you at least Phil’s post before you respond to it? “As Saban has said, “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.”
Google, anyone? Dick Witty thinks any thoughts ourside his head are inventions from Mars. But give him compassion; after all, his son
just joined the US Army, and is headed for Iraq, or Afghanistan–I forget which.
Correx: “Gee, Dick Witty, shouldn’t you at least read Phil’s post before you respond to it?”
RE: “Saban is nowhere near a one-issue guy. Where did you invent that from?” – Richard Witty
MY COMMENT: Witty, are you a half-wit (or less)?
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“I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.”
May 3, 2010 … With an estimated current net worth of 2.8 billion USD, he is ranked by Forbes as the 102nd richest person in America.
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Apr 22, 2010 … ‘I’m a one issue guy and my issue is Israel,’ Saban told the New York Times in 2004. So there you have it, California redistricting reform …
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Mar 2, 2010 … as a “center-left think tank” (Haim Saban is an Israeli media-mogul who once stated: “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel”). …
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‘I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel,’ he said.” [10]. A Grip on Hollywood. “It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and …
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Apr 20, 2010 … in life is to advance the cause of the Jewish state, famously telling the New York Times “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.” …
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Aug 23, 2006 … In an interview with the New York Times, Saban casually admitted, “I’m a one issue guy, and my issue is Israel.” …
www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=381 – Cached
Wapedia – Wiki: Haim Saban
Saban, in a 2004 New York Times interview , ascribed his interest in politics to his concern for Israel: “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.” …
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Mar 9, 2010 … “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel,” he said in his first extensive interview in years.” …
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Apr 21, 2009 … “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel,” Saban told Forbes in 2003. Harman’s office told the Associated Press she “never contacted the …
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… famously telling the New York Times “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.”It’s interesting that activist Jews are now worried that there will be …
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Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Saudi Arabia And …
Dec 18, 2008 … “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel,” he told The New York Times in 2004. –Slim-Fast diet foods tycoon S. Daniel Abraham, …
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id-id.facebook.com/notes/i-seek-the…/196674464808 – Indonesia – Cached
The Kosher Express (kosherexpress) on Twitter
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about 21 hours ago via twitterfeed; “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.”: One afternoon in late October, …
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Oct 10, 2009 … trying to influence all things Israeli,” and in that article, Saban told the NYT: “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.” …
talkislam.info/2009/10/…/arch-neoconservative-haim-saban-is-repor/ – Cached
AND MANY, MANY MORE!
SEE – link to google.com
Haaretz interview with Haim Saban.
… You said once that you are a one-note person, and that note is Israel. Why?
“You can’t explain love.” …
… “When we approach Israel I always ask the pilots of my plane to let me sit in the chair between them. … when I see the coast coming up my heart starts to go boom, boom, boom.” …
link to haaretz.com
(Google’s cache still has the page)
READ THE ARTICLE WITTY!
Jesus, you’re such a goddamn idiot. He ADMITTED to being a ‘one-issue’ guy.
My, my. Don’t you have a bad case of being jealous of a rich Jew. That is why you slander him and imply he may be disloyal to the US. If you have evidence he is disloyal, bring it forth. If you only think he MAY be disloyal, then you are no better than the proverbial thought police.
There are so many non-Jews with money in the US. Why can’t the left convince even one of them to support their causes like Saban supports Israel? And do you think Saban, an Egyptian born Jews, is ill informed about the I/P conflict? Why does Saban support Israel? Have you ever asked yourself that?
Readers, eee is responding to this reference I gave above:
link to biggovernment.com
He’s attacking the messenger, not the message. That’s what he does.
And Re eee’s: “There are so many non-Jews with money in the US. Why can’t the left convince even one of them to support their causes like Saban supports Israel?”
The answer is that non-Jews with money are not single-issue people like Saban himself says he is; they react to the full arena of American concerns, not just to a single foreign country, Israel.
I am attacking the message which is that you have zero proof that Saban is not loyal to the US. Where is your proof? All you are doing is making allegations with nothing behind them.
Off hand, I’d say its when he rather blatantly said he cared more about Israel than he does about the United States.
“The answer is that non-Jews with money are not single-issue people like Saban himself says he is; they react to the full arena of American concerns, not just to a single foreign country, Israel.”
I said to support the left, not go after Israel. How is that a single issue?
And by the way, are you really familiar with all the rich non-Jews and know they are not single issue people? From where do you pull these idiocies of yours?
All of the polite Israelis really have fled Israel, haven’t they?
Jealous of a rich Jew? Is that ALL you can ever do you freak? Always gotta frame it as ‘rich Jew = jealousy’? Fucking caveman. Stop admiring your reflection your narcissistic piece of trash.
It’s TOTAL failures like you who USE Jewishness to your advantage – purely political.
Fucking loser.
Isn’t Saban attempting to buy a controlling interest in al-Jazeera?
Saban wants to buy al-Jazeera
link to ynet.co.il
Egypt-born Jew looks to buy 50% of Al-Jazeera
Haim Saban first showed a reported interest in the Doha -based network after a visit in 2004.
link to haaretz.com
Too bad Saban was driven out of Egypt, he would have made a good ally.
Oh, and did God part the Straits of Tiran for him?
Good, he was a traitor. The guy is a Zionist parasite. Belongs in the settlements with all the other thieves.
Univision Communications, the largest Spanish-broadcasting television company in the US, agreed to a USD 12.3 billion purchase offer from the Saban Group, led by American-Israeli billionaire Haim Saban.
link to ynetnews.com
Interesting, bob. Buy off the main TV link to all US Mexican citizens (and the illegals). Both Bernays and Goebbels would approve.
Citizen,
You are now accusing Saban of being a propagandist and claim that he is buying Univision for propaganda purposes. Do you have any proof of that, you Aryan Brotherhood filth? Or are you just accusing him because he is a Jew and supports Israel?
Anyone else amused by the circular logic that Citizen is supposedly an anti-Semite merely because Saban is embracing the old libel about Jewish monopoly on the media and basically making it come true?
The report button is on the right side of every comment. It’s there for a reason, I think.
You’re a fascist, eee. You belong in the Aryan Brotherhood – except you seem like too much of a whiny bitch. So perhaps, Zionism suits you. I don’t see Nazis or White Supremacists complaining about their condition.
It’s Jewish Supremacists who both complain (antisemitism! Hitler! Nazi! Bagels!) and then at the same time, tell us all how great they are (example: you said people are simply, arbitrarily JEALOUS of this propagandist Haim Saban).
You’re such a scumbag, eee. Get a life.
I wish you’d stop begging the question and/or generally being so damn passive-aggressive.
It’s like when you point out to yonira in YOUR way (whining tone) that he’s a racist.
NO SHIT – these Zionists KNOW they’re racist and supremacist.
They are the enemy. Thats why BDS was proposed. Because these people are totally greedy and unreasonable. They want the land, and will justify the occupation, the wars, the artifice of control and LIES – because of it.
Jesus Christ – with friends like you Chaos, who needs enemies?
Do you think you’re going to GUILT TRIP people who know they’re guilty and don’t give a fuck?
Have you read yonira’s posts? The guy thinks everyone here RANDOMLY hates Jews and Israel.
This is how self-loving these fucking cultists are. They steal, lie, butcher the innocent and THEN THEY TURN AROUND AND ACT LIKE VICTIMS!
I’m sick of it. Grow a backbone like Avi! Or the cool collected disabling argumentation of Shumel. But what you’re doing, w/ this ‘oh the humanity’ bit is BORING.
Zionists (especially LIBERAL Zionists) are freaks. How do you justify STEALING someone’s home? How do you justify ETHNIC CLEANSING? Etc.
The Palestinians are being asked to accept 20% or something of THEIR HOMELAND. They’ve been there for 1000s of years.
These people who came to Palestinian are EUROPEAN CONVERTS. And you’re sitting here giving them inch after inch of territory in the debate.
It’s fucking lame.
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What is preventing Saban from making his Aliya?
taxes?
That’s a big part of it. Additionally he trusts in the power of the US gentile Military a bit more than the power of the jewish IDF. Same reason Witty does not make Aliya.
What is preventing Saban from making his Aliya?
He was raised in Israel from the age of 10.
RE: …His “three ways to be influential in American politics,” he said, were: make donations to political parties, establish think tanks, and control media outlets… – Connie Bruck
FROM WIKIPEDIA: Haim Saban
(excerpts) …Saban, in a 2004 New York Times interview[3], ascribed his interest in politics to his concern for Israel: “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.”[3]
Later, in a 2006 interview for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz[1], Saban was asked to elaborate on his early statement:
You said once that you are a one-note person, and that note is Israel. Why?
“You can’t explain love.”
It’s really love?
“More than love. Passion. A love that is passion.”
Please explain.
“When we approach Israel I always ask the pilots of my plane to let me sit in the chair between them. We don’t play ‘Heveinu Shalom Aleichem,’ but when I see the coast coming up my heart starts to go boom, boom, boom.”…
Is Israel also part of your everyday life here, in Los Angeles?
“At 9 A.M. I start with London and Kirschenbaum [Channel 10's evening current events program]. After that, throughout the day, if I see something about Israel on one of the four channels that are always on in my office, on mute, I immediately turn on the sound. And I have Israeli music on my computer, classics and contemporary singers, too.”…
…In pursuit of his concerns, Saban was described in 2004 as “throwing his weight and money around Washington and, increasingly, the world, trying to influence all things Israeli.”[3]
Glenn Greenwald has criticized Saban for being “an Israeli-American neoconservative who was a 2004 supporter of George [W.] Bush, was a close associate of Ariel Sharon, and spent the 1990s persuading Bill Clinton (with millions of dollars in donations to the Democratic Party) to be more supportive of Israel.”[13]….
WikiLink – link to en.wikipedia.org
ALSO FROM WIKIPEDIA: Haim Saban(continued)
(excerpts) …Saban relates that his political opinions regarding Israel and its foreign relations have shifted significant to the right[1]:
“…History proved that Sharon was right and I was wrong. In matters relating to security, that moved me to the right. Very far to the right.”
How far right?
“When there is a terrorist attack, I am [Avigdor] Lieberman. Sometimes to the right of Lieberman. For two days I really love Lieberman. But afterward I come back to reality. Look, I don’t see a solution today.“[1]….
….You meet frequently and quite intimately with Israeli and American decision-makers. What do you tell than about the situation regarding Iran?
“The Iranians are serious. They mean business. [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is not a madman. [....] When I see Ahmadinejad, I see Hitler. They speak the same language. His motivation is also clear: the return of the Mahdi is a supreme goal. And for a religious person of deep self-persuasion, that supreme goal is worth the liquidation of five and a half million Jews. We cannot allow ourselves that. Nuclear weapons in the hands of a religious leadership that is convinced that the annihilation of Israel will bring about the emergence of a new Muslim caliphate? Israel cannot allow that. This is no game. It’s truly an existential danger.”[1]…
…Saban has been a large and consistent donor to the United States Democratic Party according to his mandatory Federal Election Commission filings…Mother Jones, in an analysis of the major donors to the campaigns of 1998 election cycle, ranked Saban 155th among individual donors.[14] Amy Paris noted that Saban’s Clinton-era “generosity did not go unrewarded. During the Clinton administration, the entertainment executive served on the President’s Export Council, advising the White House on trade issues.”[14] The New York Times reported that Haim and his wife “slept in the White House several times during President Clinton’s two terms. And Mr. Saban has remained close to the former president.”…
WikiLink – link to en.wikipedia.org
MORE FROM WIKIPEDIA:….Matthew Yglesias wrote that “Saban was the largest overall contributor to the Democratic National Committee during the 2001–2002 cycle” and related the support from Saban to the fact that “the party leadership was backing the Iraq War and Terry McAuliffe was DNC chair.”[15] Saban’s donations during that 2001–2002 period exceeded $10 million, the largest donation the DNC has received from a single source up to that time.….
….In March 2008, Saban was among a group of major Jewish donors to sign a letter to Democratic Party house leader Nancy Pelosi warning her to “keep out of the Democratic presidential primaries.”[17] The donors, who “were strong supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign”, “were incensed by a March 16 interview in which Pelosi said that party ‘superdelegates’ should heed the will of the majority in selecting a candidate.”[17] The letter to Pelosi stated the donors “have been strong supporters of the DCCC” and implied, according to The Jewish Telegraphic Agency[17], that Pelosi could lose their financial support in important upcoming congressional elections.
On May 19, 2008, it was reported that Haim Saban had “offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization’s two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse the New York Democrat.”[18]…
….Haim Saban sponsors the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee’s Saban National Political Leadership Training Seminar, a series of semiannual seminars in Washington to provide college student activists for three days of intensive pro-Israel advocacy training[21]. The seminars, named after Saban, each provide up to 300 students from a hundred campuses with training in order to “prepare for challenges and opportunities on their campuses and [the students] left Washington prepared to mobilize for legislative and electoral impact during the next school year and into campaign ’08.”[22] Among the prominent figures to have addressed the seminars are Senator Evan Bayh and Congressman Mark Kirk and academics David Makovsky, Robert Satloff and Dennis Ross.[22]…
….Regarding Jane Harman AIPAC Controversy, in April 2009, New York Times, quoting anonymous sources, said:
“In return, the caller promised her that a wealthy California donor — the media mogul Haim Saban — would threaten to withhold campaign contributions to Representative Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who was expected to become House speaker after the 2006 election, if she did not select Ms. Harman for the intelligence post” [23]
WikiLink – link to en.wikipedia.org
American Jewish Zionists, including, Haim Saban, who have not yet made their Aliya are obliged to serve as Israeli agents until they do emigrate. Those Democrats, as well as Republicans, who take Saban’s money and thereby accept his marching orders, become Israel’s agents as well.
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