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Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust Netanyahu
The Washinton Times ^ | July 12, 2016 | Stephan Dinan

Posted on 07/12/2016 9:35:09 AM PDT by jazusamo

The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday.

Some $350,000 was sent to OneVoice, ostensibly to support the group’s efforts to back Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement negotiations. But OneVoice used the money to build a voter database, train activists and hire a political consulting firm with ties to President Obama’s campaign — all of which set the stage for an anti-Netanyahu campaign, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said in a bipartisan staff report.

In one stunning finding, the subcommittee said OneVoice even told the State Department’s top diplomat in Jerusalem of its plans in an email, but the official, Consul General Michael Ratney, claims never to have seen them.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foreignelection; israel; israelelection; michaelratney; netanyahu; obama; obamanetanyahu; onevoice; oustnetanyahu; statedepartment; whitehousemuslim
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To: jazusamo

Inquiring minds want to know:

1) Why did it take the Washington Times “journalists” so long to discover and publish these 2015 donations and attempts to sway foreign elections that I read about last year?

2) Was this another element of Obama’s “Hope and Change”?

3) Was this another element of last year’s “Arab Spring”?

4) Re “Arab Spring” - Obama friend Will Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn reportedly traveled to Mid-East to “community organize” locals (moderate extremists?) prior to the “Arab Spring” government overthrows in Egypt and Libya. So, is the “Arab Spring” a Hillary Secretary of State plan or is it one of Obama’s “fundamental transformation” actions?


21 posted on 07/12/2016 10:02:50 AM PDT by CitizenBob
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To: ChildOfThe60s; All

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22 posted on 07/12/2016 10:03:57 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I use ‘Ghostery’. It makes them go away. It reports that there are 18 Ads/pop-ups/redirectors there...................

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23 posted on 07/12/2016 10:07:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: jazusamo

https://www.ghostery.com/

Works well and tells you how many are there trying to get your computer to bend to their will...................


24 posted on 07/12/2016 10:08:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: jazusamo; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; TWhiteBear; Salvation; ...

The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday.

25 posted on 07/12/2016 10:13:42 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: BenLurkin

The Rolling Stones spin on an old song

“Sympathy for Obama”....

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the terrorists saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint


26 posted on 07/12/2016 10:14:58 AM PDT by dragonblustar (When rulers are wicked, their people are too; but good men will live to see the tyrantÂ’s downfall.)
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To: CitizenBob
Possibly because of, "a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday." That would be today.
27 posted on 07/12/2016 10:18:38 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

And why did it take Congress so long to investigate? Oh, it was Congress - never mind...

Any answers to questions #2 - 4 for inquiring minds?


28 posted on 07/12/2016 10:23:37 AM PDT by CitizenBob
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To: CitizenBob

Just funnin ya. :-)


29 posted on 07/12/2016 10:25:50 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

If my memory serves me correctly, there was a Clinton Toady over there “advising” the opposition to Bibi.

Again, Clinton pals funnel Taxpayer confiscated money to their buddies who terrorize governments.


30 posted on 07/12/2016 10:26:30 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: jazusamo

There’s going to be quite a fight over which country gets to execute Soetoro once he is incapacitated.


31 posted on 07/12/2016 10:30:54 AM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: Kahuna

Ya think?


32 posted on 07/12/2016 10:45:47 AM PDT by luvie (I hate obama....and Hitlery....)
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To: jazusamo

Jan. 26, 2015 Breitbart story
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/26/obama-campaign-team-arrives-in-israel-to-defeat-netanyahu-in-march-elections/ :

Just days after the Obama White House accused House Speaker John Boehner of “breaking protocol” by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, a team of up to five Obama campaign operatives has reportedly arrived in Israel to lead a campaign to defeat the Israeli Prime Minister in upcoming national elections scheduled for March 17.

The anti-Netanyahu, left wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports a group called “One Voice,” reportedly funded by American donors, is paying for the Obama campaign team. That group is reportedly being led by Obama’s 2012 field director Jeremy Bird...


33 posted on 07/12/2016 10:45:55 AM PDT by CitizenBob
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To: blackdog

Which is why I’ll be sitting out the congressional portion of the November election.


34 posted on 07/12/2016 10:51:43 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: VRWCarea51

J. Bird, national field director of Oabama’s 2012 re-election is leading the effort (Times of Israel Mar. 14, 2015)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/senate-said-probing-washingtons-ties-to-anti-netanyahu-group/

“...a source speaking with Fox News claimed it was investigating the State Department’s funding of the OneVoice Movement which has, to date, received $350,000 in departmental grants....reports in Haaretz that Jeremy Bird, the national field director for US President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, is leading the get-out-the-vote effort, which is partnered with the OneVoice movement.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, in statements on January 28 and January 29, said that OneVoice had received $233,500 in 2014, disbursed before the Israeli elections were called and before it partnered with V15...The V15 group is known to be partially financed by American billionaire S. Daniel Abraham, a philanthropist who has donated millions of dollars to various institutions in the Jewish state.

Netanyahu on Friday told the Times of Israel in an interview that there was an effort by left-leaning international players “to try to bring down the Likud and me.

“They are conducting a campaign with tens of millions of dollars under the banner, ‘Anyone but Bibi,’” Netanyahu said.

“They realize that (the Israeli left) will capitulate to all the dictates the international left wants to impose on Israel,” he claimed.”


35 posted on 07/12/2016 11:01:37 AM PDT by CitizenBob
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To: Kahuna
The dude will meet a cruel fate sooner rather than later. Ever hear of Mossad?

Why did the Mossad not reveal who Obama was before the first election?

36 posted on 07/12/2016 11:19:06 AM PDT by itsahoot (.......................Trump kills PC--Hillary kills USA--Pick one.)
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To: jazusamo
Correction: State Department GOVT and their employees break laws with impunity.
37 posted on 07/12/2016 12:14:30 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: blackdog

>Perfectly legal with omnibus budgeting. I mean why even have a congress?

We have a Congress? All I’ve seen is a rubber stamp.


38 posted on 07/12/2016 12:16:05 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: jazusamo

They did the same thing in Canada. Many Canadians were furious at our government.


39 posted on 07/12/2016 1:08:05 PM PDT by mia
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To: jazusamo

I suspect it is them that got US arms into ISIS hands that downed that Russian attack helicopter.


40 posted on 07/12/2016 1:18:35 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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