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Communist David Axelrod, one of Obama’s main campaign hack in 2008 and 2012. Now, he’s just a pathetic NBC hack whining about Bibi Netanyahu’s victory in the Israeli elections today. The most ironic part? Axelrod, a self hating Jew, whines about Netanyahu’s win as ‘shameful 11th hour demagoguery.’

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.

**SNIP** Obama breaks three decades of silence with call to Iranian president Obama began by congratulating Rouhani on his June election. He referred to the long mistrust between the two sides but said he believed the talks were already making progress. Obama Calls to Congratulate Putin As the New York Times reported earlier in the week, there are serious charges that Putin rigged the election: “A day after claiming an overwhelming victory in Russia’s presidential election, Vladimir V. Putin on Monday faced a range of challenges to his legitimacy, including charges of fraud from international observers and a defiant opposition...

Former US President Bill Clinton admitted Tuesday that he intervened in the Israeli elections in 1996 to help then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres defeat rival Binyamin Netanyahu. "It would be fair to say that I tried to help Peres win the elections, and I tried to help him in such a way that I would not be openly involved," Clinton said in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 News. "I tried to help him, because I thought he was a bigger supporter of the peace process, and I tried to do it in a way that served, in my opinion, Israel's...

With the final count nearly complete, it is now possible to draw some tentative conclusions regarding the 2009 Israeli elections. The coalition arithmetic remains painfully complex. It is impossible presently to predict with certainty what type of government will finally emerge from the frantic alliance building efforts now being undertaken by Kadima leader Tsipi Livni and Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu. Both leaders declared themselves the victor at rival rallies last night. However, some more substantive trends may already be gleaned from the figures. Firstly, the elections represented a very significant defeat for the traditional Israeli left. Between them, parties representing the...

“If Israel’s enemies put down their weapons, there would be no war. If Israel put down its weapons, there would be no Israel.” This week’s victory by Ehud Olmert’s Kadima Party is certainly a mandate for his plan to unilaterally disengage from the West Bank and set Israel’s “final” borders behind its security fence. But it’s more than that, too. It’s a war-weary abandonment of Likud’s historic promise never to relinquish the core of the Promised Land. It’s also a rejection of forty years’ strategic analysis demonstrating Israel to be militarily indefensible without the West Bank. And it is done...

JERUSALEM – With newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert currently trying to form a government coalition, WorldNetDaily has learned a party that could serve as Olmert's coalition partner allegedly engaged in massive ballot stuffing, likely impacting its number of parliament seats. If voter fraud can be established, the entire composition of the new Israeli Knesset and the seats allotted to each party could be altered. Olmert's Kadima party this week won by a slim majority the most mandates in the 120-seat Knesset. The leader of the party that wins the most seats becomes prime minister and must form...

Monday, March 27, 2006 Last Pre-Election Polls: Kadima 34-36 Labor 17-21 Likud 12-14 Yisrael Beiteinu 7-15 NRP/Nat'l Union 8-12 Aaron Lerner Date:27 March 2006 Dialogue found 28 seat for "undecided" #1 Telephone poll of a representative sample of 503 adult Israelis (including Arab Israelis) carried out by Maagar Mochot on 25 March after the end of the Sabbath for the Mishal Cham television program. #2 Telephone poll of a representative sample of adult Israelis (including Arab Israelis) carried out by Dialogue for Channel 10 and Haaretz on 26 March 2006 (poll completed early afternoon). #3 Telephone poll of a representative...

Last update - 20:44 26/03/2006 Poll: Kadima on 36 seats, Labor on 18, Likud on 14 By Yossi Verter, Haaretz Correspondent A day and a half before polls open for the 17th Knesset, the latest Haaretz-Channel 10 poll puts Kadima on 36 seats, Labor on 18 and the Likud on 14. The number of undecided voters has risen to 22 percent of those polled, meaning there are 28 Knesset seats still up for grabs. The Labor Party, headed by Amir Peretz, has seen no change in the number of predicted seats since last week's poll. The Likud, however, has dropped...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's centrist Kadima party would easily win a March 28 general election even without the incapacitated leader at its helm, two newspaper polls published on Friday showed. The polls were the first to test the political waters for Sharon's newly formed Kadima party since the prime minister suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage on Wednesday night and was said by doctors to be unlikely to return to public life. A poll published in the Haaretz daily found that Kadima led by Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would win 40 seats in the 120-member parliament,...

FORMER Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been elected leader of Israel's right Likud party to succeed Ariel Sharon, exit polls for public television and radio said. The 56-year-old Mr Netanyahu secured 47 per cent of votes while his closest challenger, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, won 32 per cent, the poll carried jointly by public television and radio said. The hardline candidate Moshe Feiglin won 15 per cent while Agriculture Minister Israel Katz trailed in fourth place with six per cent. If confirmed, the result will enable Mr Netanyahu to resume the helm of the party which he led to victory...

Recommendations for the future expansion of Jerusalem westward rather than to the north or east, or by somehow "thickening" the population, were proposed last week. The so-called Safdie Plan has been a contentious issue for several years between the Jerusalem municipality and developers on the one hand, and Greens and suburban communities to the west of the capital on the other. The issue was turned over to Gideon Witkon, former head of the Israel Lands Authority, for further study. His recommendations approving zoning for and building an additional 18,000 housing units to the west of the present city limits will...

Arab lying racists (still) criticize beautiful democratic Israel? What happens when the Atlas (Arab) of Racism invents-lies libel "racism" on a remarkable democracy? Ignoring Israel's reality First, the Arab Islamic hate media Golitah is systematically ingnoring or lying openly about the fact that Israel's Arabs are not only equal, but giving opportunities & rights without demanding of them the natural obligation that exists on all Israelis to serve in it's service, moreover they're often first class citizens in courts etc. even ahead of Israeli Jews. Remarkable! Israel's free, democratic status should be held especially remarkable giving the fact of...