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Giuliani later returned the check to "moderate Saudi businessman" Prince Alwaleed bin Talel when it was found that bin Talel issued a press release saying the US was partly to blame for 9/11/2001 attacks: "At times like this one, we must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack. I believe the government of the United States of America should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance towards the Palestinian cause." Giuliani said, "I entirely reject that statement....And to suggest there's a justification for it only invites this happening in the future."..."I think not only are those statements wrong, they're part of the problem."
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9/2/16, "Muslim Terrorists and Jewish Anti-Semites Against Trump," FrontpageMag, Daniel Greenfield
"Moderate Saudi businessmen who fund terror warn of Trump’s "extremism.""
"“I was often the ‘designated yeller.’”
That’s how Hillary Clinton described her relationship with the Israeli prime minister. Yelling and cursing was her particular specialty.
One marathon Hillary yelling session allegedly lasted 45 minutes. Afterward the Israeli ambassador said that relations between the United States and Israel had reached their lowest point.
Her favorite name for Netanyahu was, "F-----Bibi."
But it wasn’t just about her hatred of any particular Israeli leader.
The same year that Hillary was yelling herself hoarse at a man who had fought terrorists on the battlefield, she addressed the American Task Force on Palestine, a leading terror lobby, and blasted Israel and praised Islamic terrorists.
Hillary told the terror lobby, “I may have been the first person ever associated with an American administration to call for a Palestinian state.” She praised Mahmoud Abbas, the PA terror dictator who had boasted, “There is no difference between our policies and those of Hamas.”
She celebrated Naomi Shihab Nye who had written of the Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli cities, “Oppression makes people do desperate things.” Echoing her, Hillary denounced the “indignity of occupation”. A few years later she accused Israelis of a lack of “empathy” in understanding “the pain of an oppressed people.”
Perhaps they were too busy mourning their dead to empathize with the terrorists who were killing them.
But fighting for her political life, Hillary and Huma dug through her closet and threw on a blue and white pantsuit. Her campaign placed an editorial in the Forward headlined, "How I would Reaffirm Unbreakable bond with Israel--and Benjamin Netanyahu."
Probably by yelling “F___ Bibi” at him for another 45 minutes.
When Hillary Clinton promised to reaffirm her “Unbreakable Bond With Israel — and Benjamin Netanyahu” it was in the pages of The Forward. And, striving to sell a rotten radical to skeptical Jews, the left-wing paper has decided to run a piece claiming that “Trump Would Be Israel’s Worst Nightmare”. As if anyone in Israel goes to bed dreaming of eight years of Hillary.
The Forward shares Hillary’s view of Netanyahu. And it violently loathes Israel.
Its quick costume change from denouncing anything and everything about the Jewish State to a sudden bout of concern for Israel is as unconvincing as Hillary Clinton’s southern accent.
Jay Michaelson, the author of the editorial warning us how bad Trump would be for Israel, followed that up with another piece accusing Israel of being an apartheid state. During Passover, Michaelson’s seething hatred for the Jewish State had pushed him to declare, “I’m Seeking Freedom From the Organized Jewish Community This Passover.”
Should American Jews take their cues on how dangerous Trump would be for Israel from a guy who hates Israel? Who hates Israel so much that he can’t even stand the Jewish community?
The Forward, like Hillary, hates Israel. Its pages are dedicated to rationalizing, justifying and defending the Muslim hatred of Israel and Jews.l There’s Lisa Goldman explaining that the Muslim anti-Semitism displayed at the Rio Olympics was really a “Jewish persecution complex” that lacked “nuance.” It’s not an outlier. The Forward’s view of Israel is as hostile and negative as any white supremacist website. Or Hillary Clinton’s inbox where the likes of Max Blumenthal regularly made appearances.
Do the Forward or Hillary Clinton actually care about Israel? All they’re trying to do is keep the American Jews who don’t believe that Israel is an apartheid state or that Muslim anti-Semitism is the fault of the Jews on the Democratic reservation by scaring them with bedtime stories about Trump.
Michaelson warns us that Trump would destabilize the Middle East and endanger Israel. It’s hard to imagine how he could do so more than Hillary's Arab Spring which turned Egypt over to the Muslim Brotherhood, sowed terrorist dragon’s teeth across the region, including an ISIS affiliate in the Sinai.
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Trump would destroy American credibility, he tells us. What credibility? Nobody thinks we have any credibility now. Not on Syria, Iran, Libya, China, Russia or anything else. And much of that took place under Hillary Clinton.
Then we are told that Trump is an “extremist” because “moderate Saudi businessmen” don’t like him.
Whom should American Jews take their guidance from than "moderate Saudi bueinessmen"? Perhaps Jay Michaelson, Hillary Clinton and the Forward. It’s hard to tell who in that gruesome bunch hates Israel more.
The “moderate” Saudi businessman whom Michaelson quotes is Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Alaweed had his post 9/11 donation thrown back in his face after blaming America for the attack. And Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker, claimed that he was an Al Qaeda supporter.
He had also donated $27 million to terrorism against Israel at a telethon whose host declared on television, “Do not have any mercy, neither compassion on the Jews, their blood, their money, their flesh. Their women are yours to take, legitimately. Allah made them yours. Why don't you enslave their women? Why don't you wage jihad? Why don't you pillage them?”
The Forward and Jay Michaelson would like American Jews to heed this warning about Trump’s extremism from a “moderate Saudi” who donated to the mass murder and rape of Jews.
Also, Jay Michaelson and the Forward warn American Jews not to vote for Trump because he “famously promised to “bomb the s___ out of ISIS.” This, according to Jay, ”would entail the murder of thousands of innocent people.” Some of whom might even be “moderate Saudi businessmen.”
Finally, we are warned that under Trump, “Egypt and Syria will soon resemble Hamas and Hezbollah: extremist, Islamist and violent.” This was formerly known as Obama and Hillary’s Arab Spring.
Michaelson contends that Republicans are voting from “that part of the brain that sends out constant ‘fight or flight’ messages based on threats and fear.” That’s an odd lack of self-awareness from a man who just desperately tried to hammer together some “fight or flight” messages on Trump.
But attacking Trump is easier than defending Hillary. And so we get this pathetic showing of Muslim terrorist financiers and Jewish anti-Semites against Trump. It’s as meaningful as Hillary’s pro-Israel pandering.
The real Hillary, the one caught with an inbox full of attacks on Israel, including approval for the bigotry of Max Blumenthal whose work was cited by the Kansas City Jewish Community Center gunman, is quite a different creature from the public Hillary who suddenly loves Israel.
The real Hillary, the one who kissed Arafat’s wife and listened placidly to her rant about Israeli poison gas, has a long anti-Israel history. Her time as Secretary of State has already given us a preview of her policies. She will continue demanding apartheid segregation for Jews living in ’67 Israel and she will go on pushing for more concessions to Islamic terrorists. She will back the Iran deal that she championed.
Hillary will go on financing Iran’s wave of Islamic terrorism while ignoring its nuclear violations.
But there is nothing extraordinary about any of this. Hillary is not a radical in a party of moderates. The Democratic Party has drifted so far into the fever swamps of the radical left that opposition to Israel is mainstream. The only reason that Hillary reserves her fulminations for phone calls and private emails is that even though her inner circle of advisers is vocally anti-Israel, some in her outer circle of donors are pro-Israel. And she still needs their support. At least while the election is still going on.
Israel has ceased to be a bipartisan issue. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton reversed JFK and LBJ’s pro-Israel policies. This rejection has been cloaked in euphemisms about “two states for two people”, but that really means championing the creation of Islamic terror states inside Israel.
This policy, which has until recently been bipartisan, represents the greatest threat to Israel.
Donald Trump is the first Republican presidential nominee to firmly break with it. Unlike Hillary, Trump hasn’t kissed Arafat’s wife or spent an hour on the phone yelling at the Prime Minister of Israel. Instead he has said that Jews should be able to keep on living and building houses in ’67 Israel.
Jews living as a free people in their own land is the essence of Zionism. And it’s a rejection of the hateful ravings of Hillary Clinton, the Forward and the “moderate” Saudi businessmen of Islamic terror."
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Added: Dec. 2015, Extremist Muslim Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talel (noted in above article as "moderate Saudi businessman") on twitter tells Trump to drop out, he can't win:
12/11/15, Above from Alwaleed-Talal twitter
Source for Saudi prince tweet, 12/11/2015, comment at TCTH:
"truthandjustice says:
December 11, 2015 at 4:24 pm
Here’s that tweet by the Saudi prince – Alwaleed re Trump — surprising – NOT
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Comment: The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is known as "the main source of global terrorism," and for "inspiring the ideology of extremists worldwide." The US political class loves the world's most savage terrorists, especially Saudis who, like ISIS, freely engage in public beheadings. Prince Alwaleed, a so-called "moderate Saudi businessman" sees the US political class couldn't give a damn about its own country, so he figures he might as well step in and decide US elections.
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Added: From link in top article, Republican voters (not to be confused with Establishment Republicans) massively favor Israel. Democrat voters not so much, and increasingly favor Palestinians:
May 2016, Pew Research. If one issue defines the difference between Republican voters and Democrat voters, it's Israel. 75% of Republican voters favor Israel over Palestinians. Only 43% of Democrat voters favor Israel. As Pew says, "the partisan gap remains wide:"
"5. Views of Israel and Palestinians"
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In the 2016 primaries, 77% of Trump voters favored Israel over the Palestinians. Only 47% of Hillary voters favored Israel, 27% of Hillary voters actually favor the Palestinians, per Pew. Today, only "33% of liberal Democrats say they sympathize more with Israel, a share that is little changed over the last 10 years." At the same time, 40% of liberal Democrats now say they sympathize more with Palestinians, the highest percentage in the past 15 years.
http://www.people-press.org/2016/05/05/5-views-of-israel-and-palestinians/
May 5, 2016, "Public Uncertain, Divided Over America’s Place in the World," Pew Research Center, people-press.org
[Ed. note: "Republican voters" shouldn't be confused with Establishment Republicans in the Beltway who are identical to the Democrat Establishment on major issues. "Republican voters" haven't had a political party to represent them in many years. No one cared because they knew these voters had nowhere else to go (since they weren't going to vote Democrat). Trump is the first candidate ever who's reflected their views. What kind of person wouldn't favor tiny, democratic Israel which is surrounded by seething masses of Islamic savages? Answer: The entire Beltway political class.]
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Added: More on Saudi Prince Alwaleed:
10/12/2001, Giuliani rejected $10 million from Saudi Prince Alwaleed after Alwaleed suggested US actions were partly responsible for 911 attacks and that US should reconsider its policies:
Oct. 2001: Saudi Prince Alwaleed issued a press release in NY City stating that US policies led to the attack: "We must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack. I believe the government of the United States of America should re-examine its policies in the Middle East."...
Image caption: "One month after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, right, hands New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a check for $10 million for relief efforts on Thursday, October 11, 2001, in New York. Prince Alwaleed, a member of the Saudi royal family who was sixth on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest men for 2001, also visited ground zero. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, pool)"
10/11/2001, "Giuliani Says City Won't Accept $10 Million Check From Saudi," NY Times, Jennifer Steinhauer
"Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said today that New York City would not accept a $10 million charitable donation from a wealthy prince from Saudi Arabia who criticized the American government's policies in the Middle East........
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud... attended a memorial service at the site today, where he handed the mayor a check for $10 million for the Twin Towers Fund, one of various charity funds set up to benefit survivors of the attack.
Mr. Giuliani initially accepted the check....Along with it was a letter from the prince, in which he expressed his condolences for "the loss of life that the City of New York has suffered."...
What the letter did not say was what a press release
attached to a copy of the letter did:
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"However, at times like this one,
we must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack. I
believe the government of the United States of America should
re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced
stance towards the Palestinian cause." The press release attributed the
statement to the prince.
"'Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek,' Prince Alwaleed stressed," the release read....
"'Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek,' Prince Alwaleed stressed," the release read....
The mayor, who had been told of the press release just moments before his daily briefing but after receiving the check, was visibly annoyed by it. "I entirely reject that statement," he said....
"There is no moral equivalent for this act," the mayor said. "There is no justification for it....
And to suggest that there's a justification for it only invites this happening in the future. It is highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous."...
His press office released a statement attributed to the mayor that the check would not be accepted....
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The (Prince's) letter added, "I would also like to condemn all
forms of terrorism and in doing so I am reiterating Saudi Arabia's
strong stance against these tragic and horrendous acts."...
A spokesman for the prince, Amjed Shacker, who was reached on his cell phone as he prepared to board a plane for Saudi Arabia, said he knew of no such rejection and indeed seemed perplexed to learn of it. "The mayor took the check at 9 a.m.," he said. "We have no knowledge of that. He accepted the check."...
A spokesman for the prince, Amjed Shacker, who was reached on his cell phone as he prepared to board a plane for Saudi Arabia, said he knew of no such rejection and indeed seemed perplexed to learn of it. "The mayor took the check at 9 a.m.," he said. "We have no knowledge of that. He accepted the check."...
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CNN article, 10/12/2001 includes additional Giuliani response to Saudi Prince press release: "I think not only are those statements wrong, they're part of the problem....One of the reasons I think this happened is because people were
engaged in moral equivalency in not understanding the difference between
liberal democracies like the United States, like Israel, and terrorist
states and those who condone terrorism."
10/12/2001, "Giuliani rejects $10 million from Saudi prince," CNN
"Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday the city would not accept a $10 million donation for disaster relief from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the September 11 attacks.
"I entirely reject that statement," Giuliani said. "There is no moral equivalent for this [terrorist] act. There is no justification for it. The people who did it lost any right to ask for justification for it when they slaughtered 4,000 or 5,000 innocent people."
Prince Alwaleed gave the mayor a check after a Thursday morning memorial service at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center towers destroyed in the attacks.
The prince offered his condolences to the people of New York, but after the ceremony he released a statement suggesting the United States "must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack."
"The check has not been deposited. The Twin Towers Fund has not accepted it," Giuliani said in a statement late Thursday.
The prince's statement said the United States "should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stand toward the Palestinian cause.
"While the U.N. passed clear resolutions numbered 242 and 338 calling for the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip decades ago, our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek," the statement said.
Giuliani flatly rejected the prince's position. "To suggest that there's a justification for [the terrorist attacks] only invites this happening in the future," he said. "It is highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous.
"And one of the reasons I think this happened is because people were engaged in moral equivalency in not understanding the difference between liberal democracies like the United States, like Israel, and terrorist states and those who condone terrorism.
"So I think not only are those statements wrong, they're part of the problem," Giuliani said."
10/12/2001, "Giuliani rejects $10 million from Saudi prince," CNN
"Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday the city would not accept a $10 million donation for disaster relief from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the September 11 attacks.
"I entirely reject that statement," Giuliani said. "There is no moral equivalent for this [terrorist] act. There is no justification for it. The people who did it lost any right to ask for justification for it when they slaughtered 4,000 or 5,000 innocent people."
Prince Alwaleed gave the mayor a check after a Thursday morning memorial service at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center towers destroyed in the attacks.
The prince offered his condolences to the people of New York, but after the ceremony he released a statement suggesting the United States "must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack."
"The check has not been deposited. The Twin Towers Fund has not accepted it," Giuliani said in a statement late Thursday.
The prince's statement said the United States "should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stand toward the Palestinian cause.
"While the U.N. passed clear resolutions numbered 242 and 338 calling for the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip decades ago, our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek," the statement said.
Giuliani flatly rejected the prince's position. "To suggest that there's a justification for [the terrorist attacks] only invites this happening in the future," he said. "It is highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous.
"And one of the reasons I think this happened is because people were engaged in moral equivalency in not understanding the difference between liberal democracies like the United States, like Israel, and terrorist states and those who condone terrorism.
"So I think not only are those statements wrong, they're part of the problem," Giuliani said."
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Below, March 2010, "Rupert Murdoch, controlling owner of News Corp., with Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit in March. Waleed holds 7 percent of the voting stock of the media company. Karl Jeffs/Getty Images"
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Image, September 11, 2001, World Trade Center jumpers, Reuters photo
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@Alwaleed_Talal 1h1 hour ago
.@realDonaldTrump
"You are a disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America.
Withdraw from the U.S presidential race as you will never win."
Prince Alwaleed is a major stockholder in News Corp. and Apple, he owns the George V hotel in Paris, and owns part of New York’s Plaza hotel.
Sentient says: