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2004-04-19 15:53 | User Profile
That's how you make it in Hollywood.
Sacramento Bee/John Decker Schwarzenegger denounces Nazis at Holocaust event The Austrian-born governor says he promotes tolerance. By Margaret Talev -- Bee Capitol Bureau Published 2:15 am PDT Monday, April 19, 2004
LOS ANGELES - With Jews across the nation marking the 60th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Hungary, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger drew a standing ovation on Sunday at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event where he criticized his homeland's affiliation with the Nazis during World War II and reminded the crowd he has chosen Israel for his first overseas visit as governor.
"I come from a country that had a history of prejudice that resulted in violence and in bloodshed, in hate and suspicion and atrocities," the Austrian-born governor and son of a Nazi soldier told 3,000 people gathered at the Los Angeles Holocaust Monument at Pan-Pacific Park.
"Because of that, I promised myself that I would do whatever I could to promote tolerance," said Schwarzenegger, who did not mention his father's service as a Nazi soldier.
He recounted how for two decades he has raised money for Jewish causes on behalf of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and how next month he is scheduled to travel to Jerusalem, in what will be his first trip to a foreign county as governor, for a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Wiesenthal Center project. "This will be an extraordinary moment for me," he said, as the crowd whistled and cheered in approval.
Schwarzenegger took no questions from reporters but did stop to shake hands with and hug Holocaust survivors, including 74-year-old Helen Gorelik from Los Angeles, who was sent to Auschwitz as a teenager.
Gorelik said she wanted to meet Schwarzenegger to judge his character. "There are so many people saying he might be like his father," she said of her contemporaries. "But I don't think it's true. I felt him hug me very tightly, and that made me feel good.
"He's done a lot of good for the Jews, and he's going to Israel," Gorelik said. "He cares. He wants to assure them he's not like his father."
Political analysts have said Schwarzenegger's involvement with the Wiesenthal Center could help the Republicans build support among California's mostly Democratic Jewish base.
Regardless of political affiliation, it has become a tradition for California governors to speak at the annual event at Pan-Pacific Park, which is billed as the largest remembrance event open to the public. Former Govs. Gray Davis and Pete Wilson attended in years past, organizers said.
2004-05-02 14:03 | User Profile
For the second day in a row, the Sacramento Bee gives feature coverage of Schwarzenegger's pilgrimage to Israel.
At least we know that Governor Arnold is no Mel Gibson. Unlike Gibson, who stood up to a year long smear campaign by the Jewish establishment only to emerge triumphant, the Governor has chosen the traditional path of the politicianââ¬âgrovelling. He was ââ¬Åinvitedââ¬Â to Israel the same way that one is ââ¬Åinvitedââ¬Â to the principalââ¬â¢s office in elementary school. He goes because he knows whatââ¬â¢s good for him. No doubt 20 plus years in Hollywood have taught Arnold a lot about how to pander and to whom, and for him it has paid off big time. Why stop now? The fact that he would brag that ââ¬ÅIsrael is my first foreign trip,ââ¬Â or that he would exalt those who publicly trash his own dead fatherââ¬â¢s memory, shows indeed how low he will go. Unlike Marlon Brando, Arnold doesnââ¬â¢t have to learn to hard way.
Sacramento Bee/John Decker Governor on the go in Israel Schwarzenegger gets star treatment as he meets with leaders and promotes peace and business ties. By Margaret Talev -- Bee Capitol Bureau Published 2:15 am PDT Sunday, May 2, 2004
TEL AVIV - It is just the sort of mission an American president might plan: Visit Israel to promote peace, build political and business relations and see embassy workers. Helicopter in and out of Jordan for lunch with King Abdullah, a friend in the Arab world. And stop at a U.S. military hospital on the way home to meet soldiers wounded in Iraq.
The man behind this three-day itinerary isn't President Bush, though.
It's California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
By the time he touched down Saturday afternoon at Ben Gurion International Airport, what had begun as Schwarzenegger's pre-election promise to speak at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Center for Human Dignity and Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem had grown.
His handlers had to deflect questions from the press about whether the Austrian-born governor was betting on a constitutional amendment to one day allow foreign-born citizens to seek the presidency. "It's not a presidential-style visit," insisted his chief of staff, Pat Clarey.
The governor handled similar questions with humor that night as he left a hotel reception where he encouraged Israeli business executives to open offices in California.
"I've never been here with the president, so I cannot compare it with that," he said, adding, "I'm not thinking about all the other stuff. I'm just thinking of taking care of my state."
Arriving in modern Tel Aviv by private jet just before the end of the Sabbath, Schwarzenegger addressed 200 business leaders gathered at the waterfront Hilton hotel, praising Israel's proliferation of high-tech research and highlighting five Israeli companies that have plans to bring 800 jobs to California over the next several years. The nation boasts a massive international center for high tech, although not as large as the Silicon Valley or Boston.
"You are vital to the prosperity of California and Israel," the governor told leaders. "I say to all of you, come to do business in California. We have productive workers with the most diversified economy, innovative businesses and, of course, access to the world's biggest markets."
When Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took the microphone, however, he told Schwarzenegger that Israelis look to him as a national ambassador.
"We count on you that you'll continue to support the state of Israel, to strengthen the relationship between the two countries," he said.
Security and crowd control have been of particular concern on this trip because of fear of retaliation after the Israeli government's assassination in recent weeks of the top two leaders of the militant group Hamas.
Snipers patrolled the roof of the Hilton when Schwarzenegger arrived with business adviser Paul Wachter. Guards took them through a private hotel entrance to avoid a jubilant crowd of locals, Russians and Italians smoking, drinking and milling about the lobby. Some were fans of his movies and had brought scrapbooks, hoping for autographs. But most were rowdy basketball fans looking for their favorite Israeli and European players, who were staying at the same hotel for the Euroleague championship.
Schwarzenegger has visited Israel several times, beginning in the 1970s as his bodybuilding career took off. He once judged a teen beauty contest in the Jewish state, and visited in 1995 to celebrate the opening of a Planet Hollywood in which he was an investor. He has since invested in an Israel startup company developing cell phone technology. Costs of this trip are being shared by the state, Schwarzenegger's campaign committee and the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center.
After his remarks, Schwarzenegger was swarmed by business executives, all wanting an autograph, a handshake or a photograph.
Breaking free, he moved to an adjacent conference room at the hotel, where dozens of diplomatic staff and military officials stationed at the U.S. Embassy were invited to bring their families to meet him. Then he lit a cigar and headed off for a late dinner.
Schwarzenegger planned to spend most of today in Jerusalem. He is scheduled for a 45-minute meeting with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the same day that Sharon's Likud Party holds a referendum on whether to support a plan to withdraw from settlements in Gaza. Schwarzenegger also is to meet with Israeli President Moshe Katsav and the minister of foreign affairs.
In the afternoon, the governor is scheduled as guest speaker at a ceremony for the future Center for Human Dignity and Museum of Tolerance, a $200 million project being directed by the Wiesenthal Center, a group he supports financially.
He also is scheduled to lay a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial before attending a Wiesenthal Center dinner.
"Where there is this violence, where all the religions come together in Jerusalem, this will be terrific because this will be kind of like a place of hope," he told embassy staff members about the upcoming project.
On Monday, Schwarzenegger is to fly to Jordan for lunch with King Abdullah. The governor has faced criticism from Arab Americans for his decision not to meet with Palestinian leaders on this trip.
Spokeswoman Margita Thompson wouldn't rule out discussions between Schwarzenegger and the Jordanian king on foreign relations, but she stressed that any discussions would be unofficial in nature and that this was a social call. Schwarzenegger was a longtime friend of the late King Hussein, and Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver, is a friend of Hussein's wife, Queen Noor.
Schwarzenegger plans to leave the Middle East on Monday afternoon, stopping at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on his way back to California to visit with U.S. troops wounded in Iraq.
Eric Legg, an Air Force tech sergeant stationed in Tel Aviv, said the visit should boost morale because soldiers love Schwarzenegger's action movies.
"He's definitely a military favorite," Legg said, still giddy from seeing the governor at the embassy reception. "He's a tough guy, the action hero."
2004-05-02 19:38 | User Profile
Schwarzenegger is an opportunistic sleazeball who would sell his mother if that would help him become President.
2004-05-02 20:57 | User Profile
"Center for Human Dignity"? "Museum of Tolerance"? In Israel, a country founded on the theft of land and the oppression of refugees borne of anti-Arab terrorism?
The entire state of Israel is a Museum of Hypocrisy.
2004-05-02 22:04 | User Profile
A museum of cruelty to the Palestinians would be more appropriate.
2004-05-03 01:49 | User Profile
[center] [color=blue][size=5]The Running Man[/size][/color]
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stands next to the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Sunday as he pays his respects to the six million Jews exterminated by the Nazis during World War II.
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[size=6]OY VEY.... ZE ZIX MILLION!!!
Schwarzenegger later laid a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial during a ceremony at which he also rekindled the memorial's symbolic eternal flame. [size=4]Wearing a yarmulke,[/size] he bowed his head and stood in silence for several minutes.
The memorial is a vault-like chamber with the ashes of Holocaust victims buried beneath its marble floor.
But if the day's focus was on tolerance and the Holocaust, it was also, for Israelis, equally a celebration of all things Schwarzenegger. California's governor was cheered at every stop along the way, whether by office workers in government buildings or the crowd at the museum ceremony.
**Arnie...
[color=green]Your dad is spitting on you in Valhalla![/color][/size]**[/center]
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2004-05-03 01:55 | User Profile
Arnold the Butt-Goy.
2004-05-03 02:04 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Bardamu]Arnold the Butt-Goy.[/QUOTE]
LMAO!!
2004-05-03 02:15 | User Profile
Well, it's official: Schwarzenigger is a Traitorous Piece of Shit. Because of his all-consuming ambition, he unforgiveably smeared his father, his nation of origin & his entire race by fellating those ugly-ass kikes like the submissive whore he is. And he wants to be president so bad he can taste it. He probably will be in the end, too.
Go on and jump in the fire, Noachide. Let's see a real "Holocaust" for once.....
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2004-05-03 02:55 | User Profile
A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.....
[I]Center for Human Dignity[/I]....oooh, my sides....a-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.....
Whaddaya call Gaza then? [I]The One Jewish Fingernail Foundation[/I]?
2004-05-03 18:02 | User Profile
Front page coverage continues, Day 3.
Any emergent politician must pay homage and pledge fealty. Arnold can now seriously think about the Senate when Feinstein retires or dies.
It reminded me of when the Jews summoned Limbaugh to make his pilgrimage when he got big.