Claire Berlinski (top photo) has had enough of Helen Thomas. In a post yesterday on Ricochet.Com, she put the lie to a claim recently made by Thomas (and often made by Anti-Semites) about the amount of influence exerted on America by Israel. According to Thomas:
"We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where there mouth is…We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way."
Berlinski provides a partial list of funds paid by the Saudi government (not including Saudi companies) to lobbyists in the U.S. since September 11, 2001, which money can be presumed not to benefit the Israelis.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP: $220,770
Boland & Madigan, Inc: $420,000
Burson-Marsteller: $3,619,286.85
Cambridge Associates, Ltd: $8,505
Cassidy & Associates, Inc.: $720,000
DNX Partners, LLC: $225,000
Dutton & Dutton, PC: $3,694,350
Fleishman-Hillard: $6,400,000
Gallagher Group, LLC: $612,337
Iler Interests, LP: $388,231.14
Loeffler Group, LLP: $10,349,999.99
Loeffler Tuggey Pauerstein Rosenthal, LLP: $2,350,457.12
Loeffler, Jonas & Tuggey, LLP: $1,260,000.00
MPD Consultants, LLP: $1,447,267.13
Patton Boggs, LLP: $3,098,000.00
Powell Tate, Inc.: $900,732.77
Qorvis Communications, LLC: $60,314,803.80
Sandler-Innocenzi, Inc.: $8,885,722.65
Berlinski goes on to provide a non-exhaustive list of donations to American universities from Arab states:
Arkansas, $20,000,000: Saudi Arabia: King Fahd
Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Cornell, $11,000,000: Saudi Arabia
George Washington University, nearly $20 million from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
Cornell, nearly $11 million from Qatar
The Colorado School of Mines in Golden, more than $19 million from the UAE
University of Virginia, more than $29 million from Saudi Arabia
Harvard, more than $42 million from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Oman
Rutgers, $5 ,000,000: Saudi Arabia
Georgetown, more than $60 million from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Oman
George Washington, $3,300,000: Kuwait Foundation
Chair for Islamic Shariah Studies, Princeton: $1,000,000: Saudi Arabia
Harvard Law, $5,000,000. Saudi Arabia, King Fahd
Harvard, $2,500,000: Saudi Arabia
Harvard. $2,000,000: Saudi Arabia, Prince Khalid al-Turki
USC: Saudi Arabia
UC Berkeley, $5,000,000: Saudi Arabia—two Saudi sheiks
Chicago: Saudi Arabia
Georgetown, $8,100,000: Saudi Arabia: scholarship from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Texas A&M, $1,500,000: Saudi Arabia
MIT, $5 ,000,000: Saudi Arabia
UC Santa Barbara: Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies
Columbia: $2,000,000: UAE and other donors, Edward Said Chair
UC Berkeley: $5,000,000: Saudi Arabia—Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud Foundation and Sheikh Salahuddin Yusuf Hamza
Harvard: $20,000,000 Saudi Arabia—Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Abdeljawad: Harvard, $2,000,000—Sheikh Khalid al-Turki
Georgetown: $750,000, Libyan government, Al-Mukhtar Chair of Arab Culture
Georgetown. $20,000,000: Saudi Arabia—Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Duke University: $200,000, Saudi Arabia—program in Islamic and Arabian development studies
USC: $1,000,000, Saudi government: King Faisal Chair for Arab and Islamic Studies
American University: $5,000,000 Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi
Georgetown: $250,000, United Arab Emirates—visiting professor in Arab civilization
Cornell: $10,000,000, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Phillips Academy: $500,000, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Carnegie Mellon—nearly $111 million from Qatar
Seems to me like a good argument for encouraging your kids to apply to one of our service academies - or just join the Marines.
Berlinski ends her piece with a personal message to Thomas: "Helen, you Jew-hating gargoyle, I think we've heard quite enough from you."
To read the whole post of Berlinski, click on the link below.
http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Enough-of-You-Helen-Thomas
