BREAKING NEWS

Saban: Obama administration radical leftists

By JPOST.COM STAFF

MAY 13, 2010 21:47

Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban, said to be the Democrats' single biggest donor, says he is highly dismayed at the Obama administration’s approach to Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“To say I don’t sleep easily with the current administration’s relationship to Israel would be an understatement,” Saban told Channel 10’s reporter at an LA Gala dinner starring Idan Raichel and former ambassador John Bolton organized by the Israeli Leadership Council on Wednesday night.

“I’m an American now, so I don’t say everything I think, like I might have once,” he added in the footage aired by Channel 10 Thursday. Saban said he had made his concerns known to both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and that Emanuel had characterized himself as more hawkish than 50% of Israelis.

Saban doubted an opinion poll would bear out this estimate.

Saban stressed Obama and his administration were not, as some Israelis think, “anti-Israel."

“Obama wants to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the same thing we want,” Saban said, just the way he was going about it was not to the taste of many in Israel. “They are leftists, really left leftists, so far to the left there’s not much space left between them and the wall,” he said of the Obama administration.

Hamas official says Trump will be tested on saying he can stop war

By REUTERS

11/06/2024 11:06 AM

Russian foreign ministry says US should cure its own democracy

By REUTERS

11/06/2024 10:42 AM

Germany's far-right AfD party to eject members linked to extremist group

By REUTERS

11/06/2024 10:00 AM

NGO petitions High Court over Gallant dismissal as defense minister

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

11/06/2024 08:15 AM