Two items about the lobby that dare not speak its name. Ynet reports that Stevie Wonder will perform at the annual Friends of the IDF gala in Los Angeles. Note that media mogul Haim Saban, who is also a giant donor of the Democratic Party, is hosting:
The event will be hosted by Cheryl and Haim Saban and is expected to be attended by more than 1,000 members of the Los Angeles Jewish community. The gala is considered one of the organization’s flagship events and is known to raise millions of dollars.
Oh and don’t forget that name Saban/Democratic Party. From Florida, McClatchy reports on a bipartisan gather in support of Israel:
Local and national power-brokers joined hundreds of Israel’s supporters Sunday night in North Miami Beach at a rally sponsored by the Greater Miami Jewish Federation in the wake of last week’s Gaza cease-fire and the ongoing turmoil in Egypt.
It was a bipartisan collection of dignitaries at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center: U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami; U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston and chair of the Democratic National Committee; and U.S. Reps. Frederica Wilson and Joe Garcia, both Miami-Dade Democrats.
It’s very disheartening to me to see Stevie Wonder involved in something like this, more than it would be for lots of other performers, since I feel some sort of emotional bond to peak era Stevie. Friends of the IDF? This seems worse in a way than performing in Tel Aviv.
I wonder what his religious views are. I accidentally saw him performing at the end of some sort of gospel show on TV several years back (and he sounded great, incidentally). Has he perhaps gotten in with a hard core evangelical/pentecostal Zionist crowd? Or is this mostly a political favor to DNC friends?
Well Gaza has this guy – a world famous footballer that even I (who avoids all things footie) can’t fail to know –
http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/palestine-and-israel/2064-worlds-most-expensive-footballer-cristiano-renaldo-donates-15mn-to-children-in-gaza
A 1.5 million euro donation from one individual!
Phil/All Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett have a must read up at Race for Iran about the direction and selections of the Obama foreign policy team. Also about who is in the running for replacing Petraeus. How the hell is Harman even in the running? Clearly she is working for and only for Israel.
Stevie Wonder wrote “Isn’t She Lovely” as a result of being inspired by his daughter Aisha. There are certainly a lot of Aishas in Gaza.
Not surprised. Stevie was on the “happy birthday to Israel” TV extravaganza in 1998.