“They are twisting [Obama's] words. They want to move Jewish votes from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party,” – billionaire pro-Israel fundraiser, Haim Saban, on neocon attempts to promote lies about Obama's support for Israel.
He had no issue with the substance of Obama's speech, used by the Netanyahu government and its media representatives in the US, to stigmatize the US president as anti-Israel. He had some questions about form and timing. Money quote:
“I don’t have a problem with that statement,” Saban said. “Obama didn’t call for the return to 1967 borders. He said on the basis of 1967 with land swaps, which by definition means not 1967 borders.”
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