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Obama Backs Campaign to Defeat Netanyahu in Israeli Elections
pjmedia ^ | Jan. 26, 2015 | Susan L.M. Goldberg

Posted on 01/26/2015 5:28:07 PM PST by PROCON

Caroline Glick picked up on one article the Israeli left-wing paper Ha’aretz didn’t bother translating into English that details Obama’s involvement in the upcoming Israeli elections. A summary of the article is provided by IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis):

Haaretz reporter Roi Arad revealed in an article in the Hebrew edition today [January 26] that the foreign funded organization, “One Voice”, is bankrolling the V-2015 campaign to defeat Binyamin Netanyahu’s national camp in the March 2015 Knesset Elections.

One indication of the generous financing is that it has now flown in a team of five American campaign experts (including Jeremy Bird, the Obama campaign’s national field director) who will run the campaign out of offices taking up the ground floor of a Tel Aviv office building.

V-2015 is careful not to support a specific party – rather “just not Bibi”. As such, the foreign funds pouring into the campaign are not subject to Israel’s campaign finance laws.

Glick commented via Facebook:

Obama won’t meet Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו in Washington when he addresses the Joint Houses of Congress in March because of Netanyahu’s visit’s proximity to the Israeli elections. And Obama, of course believes in protocol and propriety which is why he won’t get involved. No, he’s not getting involved at all. He’s just sending his 2012 field campaign manager to Israel to run a campaign to defeat Netanyahu. That’s all. No interference whatsoever.

The Israeli Left adores touting Netanyahu’s “interference” in American elections, specifically his expression of support for Mitt Romney in the 2012 campaign. When it comes to Israeli left-wing politics, there are simply things you just don’t do when you represent the center-right. It should come as no surprise then that Haaretz, known on this side of the globe for its freakish ability to generate anonymous White House sources that love talking about how much Obama hates Bibi (a shared talent among the Left) would conveniently forget to translate this little news item for their English-reading audience.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: carolineglick; child; childish; glick; haaretz; imra; interference; israel; jeremybird; juvenile; lisafithian; netanyahu; obama; obamaisraelelection; obamanetanyahu; onevoice; petulant; roiarad; thomasrose; tomrose; v2015
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So, Obama campaign’s national field director Jeremy Bird is working on behalf of the Israeli left to defeat Netanyahu.

I'm no rocket scientist, but doesn't this break several American laws?

1 posted on 01/26/2015 5:28:07 PM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Laws...are such silly, obsolete concepts, you know.


2 posted on 01/26/2015 5:30:46 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: PROCON

There is no Law in the US for the EXEMPT pRes_ _ent,
the EXEMPT SCOTUS, or the EXEMPT Congress.
They are above all others below them whom they scorn
and manipulate and tax and now will kill by ObamaCARE.


3 posted on 01/26/2015 5:30:54 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: PROCON

“There will be a price.”


4 posted on 01/26/2015 5:31:05 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: PROCON

Now can we start the impeachment process.


5 posted on 01/26/2015 5:32:02 PM PST by DownInFlames
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To: PROCON

This could really backfire on Zero.


6 posted on 01/26/2015 5:33:06 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: PROCON

and this is not colonization? So they attack Israeli settlements but then make Israel their own little home... with Israelies as cannon fodder in case it does not work out for them...


7 posted on 01/26/2015 5:34:11 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: PROCON

Let’s see what Lord Fouls excuse for not being able to meet with Netanyahu? Something about influencing some election?


8 posted on 01/26/2015 5:35:03 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: DownInFlames

Is this a set up for the antichrist to walk on Temple Mount?


9 posted on 01/26/2015 5:35:20 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: DownInFlames

Is it the ?Hatch? act that prevents meddling in elections??

Obama Campaign Team Arrives in Israelto Defeat Netanyahu in March Elections

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3250938/posts?page=19

So it WAS VJ’s ‘high price to pay’ flying monkeys.


10 posted on 01/26/2015 5:36:06 PM PST by txhurl (They claim conservatives aren't electable yet they disguise themselves as conservatives to win.)
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To: Mastador1

This won’t even rate a mention on the overnight news...


11 posted on 01/26/2015 5:36:26 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: colorado tanker

“This could really backfire on Zero.”

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But WHO will prosecute him ?? Impeach him ?? Whatever ??

Thank You again Congress.


12 posted on 01/26/2015 5:36:30 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: PROCON

Bibi is the only true leader in the West.

Obama? Ha
Cameron? Ha
Merkel? Ha
Hollande? Ha

Harper....is decent.
Abbott too.

And the guy in Egypt...he understands the current geopolitical realities.

Very few, though.


13 posted on 01/26/2015 5:36:41 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: PROCON

Why do they call him “Bibi”?


14 posted on 01/26/2015 5:36:47 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: PROCON

Interesting.

That must be why Obama was so irritated the Republicans invited Netanyahu to speak there this very week, and didn’t tell him ahead of time.

So Netanyahu it seems has the Republicans votes, his opponents have democrats. Not literally of course, because Israelis don’t get votes from Americans.

I’m not saying if any of this is legal. I’m just saying how it seems out here in flyover country.

Fair enough.


15 posted on 01/26/2015 5:37:19 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: PROCON

We theorized it was David Axelrod a while back.


16 posted on 01/26/2015 5:37:25 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Obama won’t meet Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו in Washington when he addresses the Joint Houses of Congress in March because of Netanyahu’s visit’s proximity to the Israeli elections. And Obama, of course believes in protocol and propriety which is why he won’t get involved. No, he’s not getting involved at all. He’s just sending his 2012 field campaign manager to Israel to run a campaign to defeat Netanyahu. That’s all. No interference whatsoever.

Obama cares about laws and protocol when they work for him... when they don't he discards them. Isn't that a criminal mindset?

17 posted on 01/26/2015 5:37:56 PM PST by GOPJ (Radical Muslims are the brutish "Morlocks' of the Islamic coin - flip of peace loving Eloi...)
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And Obama, of course believes in protocol and propriety which is why he won’t get involved.

O'Dinga? Zelaya? among many others...

18 posted on 01/26/2015 5:38:14 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: PROCON

Liberals don’t like foreigners interfering with their elections here but they sure don’t mind interfering with foreign elections. Heck JFK went as far as having elected allies assassinated. And didn’t Klinton organize Bibi’s last defeat?


19 posted on 01/26/2015 5:39:30 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: colorado tanker

Maybe, but Clinton in ‘96 and Bush I in ‘92 did about the same thing in Israel.


20 posted on 01/26/2015 5:39:44 PM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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