Posted on 05/09/2024 1:39:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Saban Capital Group founder held a prominent L.A. event for the president in February, raising $4.5 million
Democratic megadonor Haim Saban torched President Joe Biden’s decision to pause Israeli weapons shipments in an email to aides on Thursday, urging the administration to “reconsider.”
The Biden administration paused a shipment of thousands of weapons to Israel, including 2,000-pound bombs, amid concerns over Israel’s intention to expand military operations in Rafah, which could dramatically increase the death toll in Gaza, according to U.S. officials on Tuesday.
Israeli-American donor Saban, who hosted a prominent Los Angeles fundriaser for Biden’s reelection campaign in February, penned the email to administration aides Steve Ricchetti and Anita Dunn, asking for them to share the message with the president.
“We, the U.S., as you stated numerous times, believe that Hamas should be defeated. We, the U.S., in this case YOU Mr. President, have decided to stop sending munitions to Israel to achieve a goal that WE/YOU have set up for Israel and ourselves,” Saban’s missive read. “Even beyond Israel, this sends a terrible message to our allies in the region, and beyond that, we can flip from doing the right thing to bending to political pressure.”
Saban — who in a February interview with TheWrap defended Biden’s age and track record, saying, “He is doing really, in my opinion, a great job” — then appealed to Biden’s desire to be reelected for a second term in November.
“Let’s not forget that there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters that care about Hamas,” he wrote. “Bad, bad, bad decision on all levels. Please reconsider.”
Saban has been an ardent and generous supporter of Biden’s campaign for reelection. His February fundraiser in L.A. ahead of the March presidential primary raised $4.5 million for the campaign.
According to OpenSecrets, Saban donated the max $3,300 to Biden’s campaign for months, most recently in December, January and March.
Of the president, Saban told TheWrap, “There’s never been a president as supportive in facts, not only in words, of Israel. If you take everything in general, and most specifically, in these dire times for Israel, he’s been pristine.”
He added that his staunch support had Biden “paying a political price,” but that without Biden’s support, “Israel would be fighting this war with stones and sticks.”
Will STIL vote for Biden, so he can shut up.
Saban should have known he is supporting a deeply antisemitic party.
Perhaps he’s learned now.
“Saban has been an ardent and generous supporter of Biden’s campaign for reelection.”
Therein lies the jews problem...supporting democrat filth then surprised when they get double crossed.
He won’t change. Destroying America is more important to him.
Here’s a clue, Jimmy, you raised all that Dinero for Barry Sotero.
That pander-line is precarious.
I don’t think that’s his motive.
I think he is just painfully misinformed.
The democrats are extremely good at keeping people in uniformed bubbles.
That’s why they are so aggressively using the FBI and internet giants to censor truthful information.
Biden already got his money.
And yet the dummy will still throw money at them.
IF Voted for by Congress & signed by Biden-—
What LAWS are being broken by Biden????
Until I moved to Broward county I thought the same as you. Most American Jews support Biden no matter what.
Capos never learn.
Saban is truly a Hollywood schlock merchant. He’s the perfect democrat. Doesn’t want to be known as “American”, instead is Israeli-American. Another good reason to get rid of dual citizenship.
I am Jewish and obviously have a Jewish family.
You have no idea how insular the group is, news wise. They talk and think stuff that is simply untrue, factually. Literally never hear most significant news.
And there is massive cognitive dissonance when I point things out.
It’s like the old saying: it’s far harder to convince someone they have been conned than to con them in the first place.
Blacks and Hispanics tend to have the same bubble.
I hear the same from friends here.
Unreal. This article makes my head hurt. “None are so blind as those that refuse to see.”
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