President Obama’s role during the Israeli elections was larger than reported, according to a pollster for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.
“What was not well reported in the American media is that President Obama and his allies were playing in the election to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu,” John McLaughlin, a Republican strategist, said in an interview on John Catsimatidis’s “The Cats Roundtable” radio show broadcast Sunday on AM 970 in New York.
“There was money moving that included taxpayer U.S. dollars, through non-profit organizations. And there were various liberal groups in the United States that were raising millions to fund a campaign called V15 against Prime Minister Netanyahu,” McLaughlin said.
He noted an effort to oust Netanyahu was guided by former Obama political operative Jeremy Bird and that V15, or Victory 15, ads hurt Netanyahu in the polls. McLaughlin said the Israeli leader rebounded after delivering a speech to Congress early this month, prompting more critical ads.
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Despicable. Despicably hypocritical and despicably corrupt.
“that included taxpayer U.S. dollars, through non-profit organizations.”
Is the IRS going to investigate these NON PROFITS?? Revoke their status for interfering in a foreign political process??
This administration knows no bounds when it comes to deceit and fraud.
I cannot tell you how great it feels that this blew up in their far left faces…
The Israelis and Arabs who live there can see the evil writing on the wall and Osama Obama is now miffed the voters there didn’t ‘cower in fear’ and NOT vote for BiBi… at least they allow people to have brains, and actually use them, in Israel.
How expensive is it to FLY Arab Israelis to America just to teach them how to vote?
And yet that is what Obama’s team did!
Well, duh!!! felt like it? He clearly lost. Don’t expect the libs here to agree with that.
This administration screwed up Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. Why would we not think it would screw up Israel? This is well beyond mismanagement to sabotage.
@FAITH7:
It is my fervent hope that if the Republicans hold on to Congress and win the White House that a thorough IRS examination of groups such as One Voice and Media Matters is conducted.
As to “teaching” Arabs to vote, I can only imagine what the curriculum included. No doubt, this was Netanyahu’s point about countering the Arab’s vote, not some “racist” allusion. Israeli intelligence is so thorough that there can be no doubt that they knew every move these political operatives were making. Obama is such a fool.