London's most colourful developer has gone on a shopping spree, buying up more than 20 downtown properties in the last six months alone.
Shmuel Farhi puts the total value of his downtown property at more than $250 million.
He says it's all part of a master plan that's just begun.
"It is part of my strategy. The more I own, the more I control. The better for me," the outspoken Farhi says.
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In his Richmond Row office, London developer Shmuel Farhi gets a call from the president of a charitable foundation and immediately puts her on speaker phone
"I have a reporter here and I want you tell him, how big is my heart," he shouts.
"Oh, miles and miles big," answers Mary Lou Crowley of the London Health Sciences Foundation. "He is so generous."
It is a typically surreal moment in an afternoon spent with the city's most colourful businessperson. In the course of about an hour, he yells for an assistant to get him a drink of water, shouts at a staff member to fix a computer glitch, and generally rails against politics in London and the old boys business club he believes runs the city and tries to shut him out -- the decibel level seldom reaching below a scream.
"The day I am not belligerent, I am not aggressive, is the day they should be worried," he says, gesturing to outside his massive office window as he speaks. "The day I am calm and wear a suit is the day I have lost my passion, my caring for this city."
His office reflects his eclectic character, festooned with photographs of his various properties around London, along with statues of elephants, a lion, a giant eagle, abstract paintings and autographed sports items. When a reporter wants to talk with him about his recent downtown investments, he shows video clip after clip of various events and news conferences, where he's praised.
When told his aggressive nature has alienated some in London's staid business community, he is quick to answer.
"I will not be in their little club and if they don't like it, too bad," he snaps.
An interview is littered with references to "them" and "their," meaning the largely white, anglo-saxon business and political community he believes works against him because of his ethnicity and loud demeanor.
Anti-White Arab Own's Key Land In London
Below are parts of two articles from THE LONDON FREE PRESS about an Arab businessman who owns much of London's downtown. He is anti-White and opposed to Anglo-Saxon politics and culture.
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