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Egypt-born Jew looks to buy 50% of Al-Jazeera
By Nimrod Halpern, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Haim Saban, Al Jazeera 

Egyptian-born Jewish businessman Haim Saban is negotiating with Qatar's emir the purchase of 50 percent of the Al Jazeera television network, the independent Egyptian newspaper Al-Mesryoon reported earlier this week.

Saban was first reported to be negotiating the purchase of half the Doha -based network in 2004, after visiting the emirate with former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The media mogul, estimated to be worth more than $3 billion, brought the Power Rangers franchise to the Arab world and made a fortune out of developing and selling the Fox Family cable network together with News Corp. In Israel, Saban owns a controlling stake in Bezeq.
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Last month Saban blasted calls to boycott Israel for the occupation of the West Bank. He called those who support boycotting the Toronto film festival's decision to showcase Tel Aviv "anti-Semites" and "Jew haters."

"The world always had anti-Semites," the Hollywood financier told the Los Angeles Times in an e-mail exchange last month. "It has now and always will, but the people of Israel always have, and always will live and prosper. Sorry Jew haters. You lose."

Among the artists who signed the petition calling for a boycott of the festival's Tel Aviv Week in August were Ken Loach, Julie Christie, Danny Glover, David Byrne and Jane Fonda ¬ though Fonda later retracted her decision.

Meanwhile, a number of Hollywood Jews, including Jerry Seinfeld, Sacha Baron Cohen and Natalie Portman, issued a counter-statement in defense of the festival's decision.

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      1.   Surely AljJazeeera would not sell 04:36  |  kiwi girl 08/10/09
      2.   I can see it now 04:55  |  JW 08/10/09
      3.   yeah so he buys it and all employees quite 05:10  |  so what then? 08/10/09
      4.   We`re All Jews! 06:25  |  Yosemite 08/10/09
      5.   And a Saudi wants to buy half of foxnews 06:29  |  Lol!!! 08/10/09
      6.   To KiwiGirl: AlJazeera isn`t un-biased IMO 07:00  |  John Wheeler 08/10/09
      7.   AlJazeer definitly has some bias, Haaretz is a better choice! 07:07  |  John Wheeler 08/10/09
      8.   Jews control 07:28  |  Noam 08/10/09
      9.   Money can`t buy everything! 07:46  |  Bling Bling 08/10/09
      10.   making money out of bin laden ! 08:25  |  good guy 08/10/09
      11.   wouldn`t work 08:46  |  ezzat tamimi 08/10/09
      12.   Don`t sell it. so it won`t become a mouthpiece like Fox News. 08:47  |  John 08/10/09
      13.   convert to judiazim 08:48  |  azra 08/10/09
      14.   "The Jews control the media" they would say, keeping silent about 08:56  |  Nahum 08/10/09
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