tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495217839069635401.post604217918074686494..comments2024-03-21T06:45:10.616-07:00Comments on MUHAMMAD ALI BEN MARCUS: Connecting the Zionist Dots by Gilad AtzmonBAFShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10746972009579125295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495217839069635401.post-7225343980377590272010-06-24T09:09:15.981-07:002010-06-24T09:09:15.981-07:00The Influencer
An entertainment mogul sets his sig...The Influencer<br />An entertainment mogul sets his sights on foreign policy.<br />by Connie Bruck<br /><br />Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/10/100510fa_fact_bruck#ixzz0rmsSEIvM<br /><br />EXTRACT<br /><br />Saban is not given to modest ambitions. Sixty-five years old, with a broad, dynamic countenance and slicked-down wavy black hair, he is known in Los Angeles as the man who brought the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Japan to America; the chairman and part owner of Univision, the nation’s leading Spanish-language media company; a staunch supporter of Israel (he has dual citizenship); and one of the largest individual donors to the Democratic Party. “Haim is a force of nature,” his friend Barry Meyer, the chairman and C.E.O. of Warner Bros., said. As a youth in Israel, Saban attended an agricultural boarding school where, he says, immigrants like his parents sent children they could not afford to feed. When he was expelled for being a troublemaker, he began attending a night school, where the principal told him, “You’re not cut out for academic studies; you’re cut out for making money.” The prediction seemed to come true in 2001, when Rupert Murdoch and Saban sold their joint venture, Fox Family Worldwide, to Michael Eisner, the C.E.O. of Disney: Saban made one and a half billion dollars. It was—and still is, he points out—the biggest cash transaction by an individual in the history of Hollywood. In March, Forbes estimated his net worth at $3.3 billion.BAFShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10746972009579125295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-495217839069635401.post-82307841066210107392010-06-24T09:02:46.825-07:002010-06-24T09:02:46.825-07:00Extract
Haim Saban
From Wikipedia, the free encyc...Extract<br /><br />Haim Saban<br />From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />Changes must be reviewed before being displayed on this page.(+)<br />This is the latest accepted revision, accepted on 22 June 2010.<br />Jump to: navigation, search<br />Haim Saban<br />Born October 15, 1944 (1944-10-15) (age 65)<br />Alexandria, Egypt[1]<br />Residence Beverly Hills, California[2] / Israel[1]<br />Nationality American / Israeli[1]<br />Other names Hebrew: חיים סבן<br />Occupation Media proprietor<br />Net worth 2.8 billion USD[2]<br />Spouse(s) Cheryl Saban (née Chackler)<br />Children 4[2]<br />Website<br />http://www.saban.com/<br /><br />Haim Saban (Hebrew: חיים סבן, born 15 October 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt[1]) is an Israeli-American television and media proprietor. With an estimated current[update] net worth of $2.8 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 102nd richest person in America.[2]<br /><br />.........................................<br /><br />Politics <br /><br />Saban "said he caught the political bug in the mid-1990s, when he felt that support for Israel was slipping in the United States."[3]<br />[edit] Concern for Israel<br /><br />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]<br /><br />Later, in a 2006 interview for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz,[1] Saban was asked to elaborate on his early statement:<br /><br /> You said once that you are a one-note person, and that note is Israel. Why?<br /><br /> "You can't explain love."<br /><br /> It's really love?<br /><br /> "More than love. Passion. A love that is passion."<br /><br /> Please explain.<br /><br /> "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."<br /><br /> Is Israel also part of your everyday life here, in Los Angeles?<br /><br /> "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."<br /><br />..............<br /><br /><br /> "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]BAFShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10746972009579125295noreply@blogger.com