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After a series of meetings with Soros' analysts, Elsztain finally won an audience with the legendary investor, who quickly signed up as the company's most important backer. As Elsztain says, "The final decision to go ahead was taken by George himself...
...Jerusalem itself. Since the mid-1980s he has used his personal fortune, the size of which is unknown, to buy up Arab-owned properties in East Jerusalem and pay for settlers to live in them. Janet Aviad, a leader of the group Peace Now, says, "Moskowitz is the biggest backer of Jews moving into East Jerusalem." She counts at least 10 buildings he has bought from Arabs there and estimates that he has invested nearly $20 million in the enterprise altogether...
...been criticized for everything from poor scheduling during the May sweeps to giving only grudging approval to the network's one mid-season success, the Dan Aykroyd sitcom Soul Man. (Tarses admits she had problems with a first draft of the script but insists she was a solid backer of the show by the time it was finished...
...convicted criminals" against Michael Dukakis, spawning the infamous Willie Horton ads that helped win the election for George Bush. Fellow candidate Jesse Jackson accused Gore operatives then of employing a subtly racist strategy against him in the South and a blatant one in New York, where Gore's leading backer, Mayor Ed Koch, said Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson...
...remember the splendid ventings of spleen: Taft-backer Everett Dirksen in 1952, thundering down from the podium at Ike-supporter Tom Dewey: "We followed you before, and you took us down the road to defeat!" And Senator Abe Ribicoff in 1968 denouncing "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!" as Mayor Richard Daley hurled back imprecations that amazed lip readers across the country...