Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Well-meaning Jewish philanthropists find out that sometimes there's just no helping some people.
Daily Scorecard re-posts from the NY Post:
He convinced Daily News owner and prominent Israel supporter Mort Zuckerman to join the effort. "He threw in about half a million of his own and raised the rest," Wolfensohn told the Jerusalem Report.
The total was $14 million, enough to buy 3,000 of the greenhouses. Some of it came from the likes of Chicago billionaire Lester Crown and Leonard Stern, the chairman of the Hartz Mountain real-estate empire, as well as the Aspen Institute, whose chairman is Walter Isaacson.
Zuckerman told The New York Times that buying the greenhouses was a constructive idea.
"Despite my skepticism," he said, "I thought . . . 'This is perhaps the only illustration or symbol of what could be the benefits of a co-operational, rather than a confrontational attitude.'"
Oops. When the last Israeli troops left the area Sept. 12, Palestinians began looting and destroying anything they could get their hands on, including the greenhouses...
Once these rich fellers are done finding ways to flush their money away, I happen to know a very fine young man who's debilitating mortgage they could pay off as easily as you or I pay a toll. Have your people call my people.
Ummm is Mort Zuckerman (and some of the other personal donors) not "neo con right wing Zionist"?
lol....
If said guy is such a "Zionazi" then why is he digging into his own pocket to help Palis in Gaza and encourage Jews to not only leave behind their "babies" and livelihood (Greehouses) but to leave them turnkey virtually to Palestinians?
You know they could have just used the money to pay the settlers to be able to move the Greenhouses and all of the equipment and re-open them in Israel... probably for less $$.