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"Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic tells Tel Aviv audience: "the guy who will be running the White House is essentially an Israeli""

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Blogger Truth said...

Hiring an Isreali lapdog as a chief of staff?

Well, so much for that whole "he's a black Muslim" thing!

11/13/08, 5:41 PM

Anonymous anony-mouse said...

1/ Harvard hasn't had a war? What about Vietnam and the 'Best and the Brightest'?

2/ Isn't it just possible that Emmanuel is actually a good political organizer? Seems to me that the Obama and Clinton campaigns never really wanted for fundraising, and yet they both wanted Emmanuel on their side.

11/13/08, 5:44 PM

Anonymous testing99 said...

Steve --

You ignore:

*Saudi and Gulf money that poured in to Obama's campaign.
*Robert Malley, George Soro's guy in Obama's campaign, met during, and after the campaign, with Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Egypt to promise Obama would ditch Israel and support it's dissolution.
*Obama's closest pals: Wright, Farrakhan, Khalidi, all hate Jews.
*The endemic anti-Semitism among Blacks as "Black Values" and Obama's embrace of that.

Goldberg is just promising stuff Obama won't deliver. Particularly since it seems Hamas (raised money and votes for Obama, illegally of course) has more influence with Obama than Emmanuel. And Obama's campaign has reached out to Hamas and Syria and Egypt promising to help dismantle Israel (echoing Campaign advisor Samantha Power's desire to send US troops to dismantle Israel and install Hamas).

Moreover, the US is not "hated" because of ties to Israel (who the heck cares about that in South Africa, or Brazil, or Pakistan) but rather because we are weak.

No nation was more anti-Israel and anti-Semitic than Yeltsin's Russia and early Putin. They got Beslan and various other atrocities, all one after another, supported by AQ and Islamists all over the world.

AFTER Putin made a deal with the Iranians, and leveled Grozny, those attacks stopped. People respect strength and fear retribution. All else is bs in international relations.

Wanting people to "love us" is the mark of weakness.

And the greatest influence is Saudi/Gulf money which dwarfs everything else and is the greatest amount in DC among both Parties.

11/13/08, 5:49 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"(the) reason that the American Enterprise Institute was both so influential and so extreme...was not that its ideas were so hot but that its chairman...was on the Forbes 500."

Good for you, Steve, for recognizing that it's really all about the money. Most all bad ideas can be made politically acceptable if enough money is thrown at the problem.

Hell, the Bolshevik revolution was all about the money. Many millions in gold was sent to Russia from New York City in order to effect "change". The neocon takeover of National Review and the neutering of American conservatism was at its core a financial attack.

Through the mechanism of large strategically targeted donations any committed group can elbow aside its political competition.

Example: The former Russian oligarch now residing in London, Boris Berezkovsky, who is overtly working to get Putin out of power, was quoted in the press: "to get a new regime in Russia mostly just takes a lot of money"...

11/13/08, 6:06 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would think Harvard has its fingerprints over just about every American war, and probably more than a few that didn't involve us.

11/13/08, 6:15 PM

Blogger RobertHume said...

testing99:
"Moreover, the US is not "hated" because of ties to Israel (who the heck cares about that in South Africa, or Brazil, or Pakistan) but rather because we are weak."

The only people who want to destroy our cities are the folks who are upset over our support of the settlements. That's what matters and that's why we are spending lives and treasure in Iraq and Afghanistan.

You're right about the others, they look at our people with pity; they don't want to kill us.

11/13/08, 7:00 PM

Anonymous i am the walrus said...

"No nation was more anti-Israel and anti-Semitic than Yeltsin's Russia and early Putin."

I'm not sure how anti-Semitic and anti-Israel Yeltsin's Russia could have been considering that most of the oligarchs running the countries were Jewish, in the case of Berezkovsky, a dual citizen of Russia and Isreal. As a result, of course Putin's Russia is very anti-Semitic.

It will be interesting to see if Obama retains Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. Gates, who is a Russian expert, auditioned for the role today by critizing Putin on missile defense. Picking a fight with Putin is probably the worst possible move Obama could make at the moment.

11/13/08, 7:03 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

bruce kovner is going to be just fine, and probably AEI. Caxton Global + 7.25% for the year.

11/13/08, 7:57 PM

Anonymous David said...

evil neocon has gone off the deep end.

Mysterious Israel-destroying Hamas agents are not funding the Obama Administration.

Obama's speeches are written by David Alexrod, a Jew. His Chief of Staff is Rahm Emmanuel, a Jew. He is financed by Pritzkers and Reskos. He genuflected to AIPAC.

But according to EC (or "testing99"), Barry is a Jew-hatin' agent of bin Laden and that notorious Hitlerite, George Soros!

Oy.

Fire up your Islamic, Allah-powered speedboat, EC, and ride off into the nuclear sunset, m'kay?

11/13/08, 8:29 PM

Anonymous David said...

Not mysterious Muslims. Here is who raised money for Obama:

Click.

Yeah, Penny appealed primarily to Jew-haters and most of the money she accepted was from them.

Penny is a Mormon, of course.

11/13/08, 8:38 PM

Anonymous ben tillman said...

So, $76 million is just a little over 1/2000th of Harvard's $35 billion.

1/500th

11/13/08, 9:58 PM

Anonymous ben tillman said...

...commodity trader Bruce Kovner, was #106 on the Forbes 500.

As a glance at the names on the Forbes 400 shows....


400 or 500?

11/13/08, 10:07 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"On the other hand, maybe the opposite is true. With the government quasi-nationalizing much of the financial industry (and who knows how much else), maybe investing in think tanks and public intellectuals offers a higher return on investment than ever."

Why waste time donating to think tanks when you can just make a former U.S. Vice President a partner in your venture capital firm and get ready to stand in front of a flood of government 'investment'.

D.

11/13/08, 10:15 PM

Blogger richards1052 said...

Thanks for linking to my post about Jeffrey Goldberg's bizarre comments. Here's the link to the post I wrote in case anyone's interested.

I also have followed Adelson's career, political bankrolling, & financial tumble with great interest. In addition to the neocon activism he funds, he's doing his damndest to screw up Israeli politics by supporting Bibi Netanyahu's bid for prime minister. Rumor has it if Bibi wins that Sheldon will bring in Dick Cheney to be vice-premier.

11/13/08, 11:57 PM

Anonymous eh said...

Das nennt man "Change".

11/14/08, 1:55 AM

Blogger Tsoldrin said...

The "Israeli Question" will solve itself. Even with the utmost chaos, violence and suppression thrown at them, Palestinians are outbreeding their enemies at a fairly swift pace. Israel has to either genocidally kill them all or find a way to (I don't even know what), or cease to be a Jewish state within ten years.

It's simple math and genetics.

11/14/08, 4:28 AM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

"testing99 said...

Moreover, the US is not "hated" because of ties to Israel (who the heck cares about that in South Africa, or Brazil, or Pakistan) but rather because we are weak."

Nonsense. The U.S. is hated by muslims because we have military bases (large bases, too) in arab lands, and specifically in Saudi Arabia, home of Islam's holiest shrines. Osama bin Laden said as much prior to 9/11. If we withdrew our military forces from the mideast we'd dry up a lot of muslim animosity, whether we supported Israel or not (we were friendly to Israel in the 70's and had relatively little grief from muslims then).

11/14/08, 8:01 AM

Anonymous matra said...

They got Beslan and various other atrocities, all one after another, supported by AQ and Islamists all over the world.

AFTER Putin made a deal with the Iranians, and leveled Grozny, those attacks stopped


The Beslan attack along with the Chechen bombings of Russian planes came after Grozny was leveled.

11/14/08, 10:31 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The "Israeli Question" will solve itself. Even with the utmost chaos, violence and suppression thrown at them, Palestinians are outbreeding their enemies at a fairly swift pace."

The Palestinians can breed like rabbits and it won't make any difference. They are already 70% of Jordan and they don't run that country. Arabs are only 20% of Israel proper. All Israel has to do is give the Palestinians most of the West Bank unilaterally and be done with them. Then the Palestinians can continue to sulk on UN welfare or they can try to build a decent society for themselves. Israel will move on.

11/14/08, 1:49 PM

Anonymous James Kabala said...

By Steve's own standards (once you say it in print you can never take it back), Emanuel has attained "folk hero" status:

http://rahmfacts.com/dossier.html

11/14/08, 4:27 PM

Anonymous David Davenport said...

The U.S. is hated by muslims because we have military bases (large bases, too) in arab lands, and specifically in Saudi Arabia, home of Islam's holiest shrines.

Wrong on the facts. US mil. has been gone from your beloved Saudi A. for five years:

Last Updated: Tuesday, 29 April, 2003, 15:16 GMT 16:16 UK

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US pulls out of Saudi Arabia


The US was not allowed to carry out air strikes from Saudi Arabia

The United States has said that virtually all its troops, except some training personnel, are to be pulled out of Saudi Arabia.

The decision was confirmed by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a joint news conference with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan.

Both men stressed that there were no differences between their countries and their co-operation would continue.

Ever since the 1991 Gulf war, the US has had about 5,000 troops stationed in Saudi Arabia - a figure that rose to 10,000 during the recent conflict in Iraq.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2984547.stm

11/15/08, 12:31 PM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

"David Davenport said...

"The U.S. is hated by muslims because we have military bases (large bases, too) in arab lands, and specifically in Saudi Arabia, home of Islam's holiest shrines."

Wrong on the facts. US mil. has been gone from your beloved Saudi A. for five years:"

You are wrong on timing. Five years ago? When was that? 2003. Well we had no problems before that, did we? When we were attacked in 2001, we DID have soldiers in Saudi Arabia. And, as per the article you cite, there are still training personnel there. More importantly, there are big freaking military bases that we built in the 80's and which we could reoccupy within a few weeks (that's why we built them).

And don't attribute "beloved Saudis" to me. I don't love them - I don't even like them. But I recognize that people can have grievances which won't go away just because you want them to.

Perhaps you can join Testing99 in some kind of freedom brigade to bring our righteous civilizing mission to the heathen of the world. I would like to see you neo-conservatives actually put your own lives at risk in the service of the ideals you espouse.

11/15/08, 1:35 PM

Anonymous Big Bill said...

The Israeli question will solve itself"

I don't worry so much about the Israeli/Arab conflict, but the secular Jew/religious Jew conflict that is always simmering just below the surface. The penis-waggling gay pride parade seculars don't breed and the money-grubbing conniving religious don't fight. That is a bad combination for Israel.

Sheer numbers suggest the religious will win and ultimately reestablish the Old Yishuv. Currently, the religious are duking it out with the Arabs for who can breed the most kids. Seculars aren't even in the running. Liberalism is destroying Israel as well as the USA and Europe. Such a shame.

11/15/08, 6:45 PM

Anonymous Captain Jack Aubrey said...

The Adelson story reminds me of another Jewish empire that imploded during the last big real estate crash in the early 90s - Olympia & York, owned by the Reichmann family of Toronto, who are ultraorthodox Haredi Jews. At one time the 3 Reichmann brothers were estimated to beworth over $10 billion (back when $10 billion...)

As for why wealthy non-Jews don't give as much to politics or think tanks? Well, they do.

The CATO Insititute is well-supplied with funds by three non-Jewish billionaires - David Koch, Fred Smith, and John Malone. Rupert Murdoch reverses the roles by being a non-Jew who packs his "think tank" (The Weekly Standard) with lots of Jews. And Salon.com for a long time was (is?) propped up by John Warnock of Adobe Systems.

11/16/08, 6:19 PM

Anonymous headache said...

testing99 wrote:
"..Moreover, the US is not "hated" because of ties to Israel (who the heck cares about that in South Africa.."

Yea that's an interesting development. Israel was closely cooperating with Apatheid South Africa, under the radar of course. Afrikaners were generally known to be staunch Zionists, sort-of.
That's the official reason many blacks hate Israel and Jews.

Anyway, since Jews in South Africa supported the ANC even though the Afrikaner governments supported Israel (reminds me of the GOP), and now that black policies are working their way through to daily life, Jews are ditching the country. Now both Afrikaners and blacks dislike Israel and Jews, the former because they feel betrayed, and the latter because they feel betrayed.

Even Oppenheimer has had to start selling off mines because the black gov. threatened him. So much for smart policy decisions.

11/17/08, 9:26 AM

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