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Michael Cieply: Haim Saban Roars Like A Mogul, And The Echoes Still Sound


The loudest voice in Hollywood last week was that of Haim Saban, who roared like an old-time mogul when Israel was threatened.

bad decision, on all levels,” he roared, in an email to President Joseph Biden, sent via White House aides, denouncing the Administration’s announced plan to withhold bombs and artillery shells from Israel if it proceeds against Hamas in the population centers of Rafah. But by week’s end, Presidential surrogates, feeling heat from critics, were looking for semantic wiggle room; Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Biden was solid behind Israel, but had been guilty of ‘imprecision.’ Celebrities, some of them, may sound off on social media or on the red carpet, or may bang the drum for donations, as George Clooney and Julia Roberts are expected to do in the run-up to another Biden money event next month.

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