Irving Moskowitz
Paul Blumenthal reporting at Huffpo. It’s the Israel lobby again; like Sheldon Adelson, Irving Moskowitz is an octogenarian Jew with close connections to the Eastern European narrative, he’s for Greater Israel, and he’s out to paint Obama as a secret Muslim:
Even in the era of unbridled campaign contributions, Irving Moskowitz’s $1 million donation in February to American Crossroads, the Karl Rove-linked super PAC, is eye-catching.
A retired physician who made a fortune purchasing hospitals and running bingo and casino operations in the economically depressed California town of Hawaiian Gardens, Moskowitz is well-known to those who follow the Israel-Palestine conflict. His contributions to far-right Jewish settler groups, questionable archaeological projects and widespread land purchases in East Jerusalem and the West Bank have routinely inflamed the region over the past four decades and, according to many familiar with the conflict, made him a key obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
Now, at age 83, Moskowitz has turned his money on the American political realm in a more prominent fashion than ever before, funding “birther” groups that question the legitimacy of President Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship and others that stoke fears about the president’s alleged ties to “radical Islam.”
Isn’t money wonderful? Wish I had some to give away usefully.
Maher donated $ 1 mill to Obama. What’s the difference [besides both being not funny]?
it is all very odd, because i think obama has done everything israel could ask for, short of bombing iran (but that was not really feasible, absent some “incident”; and he *still* may do iran in time).
so what is the silver lining to these likudnik hawks throwing away millions to dethrone obama? when he wins in 2012 he can say FU!! to the israeli right wingers. they threw all they could at him, despite his relative fealty, and they failed. 2013 will then be time to call for a settlement freeze with some high tension strings attached. let the congress attack obama for his sane foreign policy, just as the US is waking up to israeli insanity….
we also kill two birds with one stone as these war-monger israel-firsters pour money against obama: their flagrant attempts to influence US policy for israel shows us (1) the problem with money in US politics as it exists today in general and (2) that israel-firsters are a serious political force and their influence needs to be monitored and countered.