U.S.-Backed Subversion in Israel?
Posted on | January 28, 2015 | 126 Comments
Alana Goodman at the Free Beacon reports astonishing news:
A U.S. State Department-funded group is financing an Israeli campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and has hired former Obama aides to help with its grassroots organizing efforts.
U.S.-based activist group OneVoice International has partnered with V15, an “independent grassroots movement” in Israel that is actively opposing Netanyahu’s party in the upcoming elections, Ha’aretz reported on Monday. Former national field director for President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign Jeremy Bird is also reportedly involved in the effort.
OneVoice development and grants officer Christina Taler said the group would be working with V15 on voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts but would not engage in overtly partisan activities. She said OneVoice and V15 are still formalizing the partnership.
While V15 has not endorsed any particular candidates, it is working to oppose Netanyahu in the March elections.
Barack Obama and John Kerry need to answer for this.
(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)
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January 28th, 2015 @ 9:11 am
Our esteemed host wrote:
Oh, they will: now that the Israelis know that President Obama is trying to topple Prime Minister Netanyahu, more Israelis will vote for Bibi. Israelis know very well just how much our honored President hates them and their country, and some who were on the edge concerning how they’d vote will now vote Likud, because the Israelis respect our President almost as much as I do.
January 28th, 2015 @ 9:26 am
Do Democrats even notice how out of control Obama is?
January 28th, 2015 @ 9:26 am
The Israelis also know that the vast majority of Americans support a) their right to exist and b) Bibi’s strong stance against Islamic extremism.
January 28th, 2015 @ 9:28 am
They probably do. But they don’t care.
They’ve spent all this time and energy backing him. They don’t dare pull back now or oppose him, except for the most desperate need (i.e. getting reelected).
January 28th, 2015 @ 9:28 am
How Jewish Americans can continue to support the Democrats is beyond my comprehension. Since Jimmy Carter, it as been apparent to anyone with an IQ sufficient to keep a room warm were it on a thermostat, that the Democratic Party is stuffed to the gills with antisemites.
January 28th, 2015 @ 9:30 am
This is the BIGGEST overreach I have read about this topic…FAIL!!!!
January 28th, 2015 @ 9:31 am
“more Israelis will vote for Bibi”
LOL LMAO ROTFF…NOT!!!
January 28th, 2015 @ 9:46 am
Troll.
January 28th, 2015 @ 9:49 am
Always good to see the Jew-haters come out–probably with a fake email and IP address.
January 28th, 2015 @ 9:51 am
Jew hater because I don’t think Bibi will win…your lost bro…lost!
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:07 am
Thank you for demonstrating the foolishness and the idiocy of those that hate Israel. Now go die in a fire.
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:08 am
Once Obama’s troubles start to threaten their 2016 candidate, the long knives will come out.
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:09 am
Take my D out your mouth so I can understand you.
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:29 am
I wouldn’t touch you with a 100-foot pole even if you were wrapped in a full body condom, idiot leftist troll. I hope the next mouth you put your diseased member into bites it off.
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:30 am
I still can’t hear you…take my D out your mouth!!!!
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:31 am
Get Obama’s balls out of your ears and maybe you’ll hear something. Or are you volunteering for waterboarding?
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:36 am
What fockrod feelindumb?
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:40 am
Well, maybe he won’t win; the actual election is the only poll that counts. But he’ll get more votes than he would have otherwise thanks to our honored President.
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:42 am
Long knives to do what? He can’t run for re-election, so they can’t defeat him for anything, and they aren’t going to impeach him. He’s going to be a two-year lame duck, which is what any president in the last half of his second term is.
January 28th, 2015 @ 10:46 am
American Jews tend to be politically liberal, and are more urbanized than the rest of the population. Because Republicans are more openly Christian, the more secular nature of the Democratic Party is more appealing to Jews.
The big separation, if it happens, is less likely to be over Israel than it is over economics: the Democrats have lost the white working class because they can’t be both the party of the working man and the non-working man. Once American Jews start to see their own economic successes threatened by Democratic policies which want to keep taking more and more from them, to give to lazy scumbags who won’t work, then they’ll start voting Republican.
January 28th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
Sure he will…people in Israel are looking at this hawk and ALL that has happened under his reign…the same way that Bush is looked at now…Failed record and policies.
January 28th, 2015 @ 11:04 am
Back in the ’80s I spent a summer in Israel bumming around and had the occasion to meet a retired IDF medic, who’d fought in all the wars from 1948 through 1973. He and I were sitting in Tiberius on the Sea of Galilee one evening drinking Macabees Beer, when some IAF Phantoms roared over the lake and banked east over Golan. I commented, “You must be thankful for McDonnell-Douglas.” (My dad helped designed the F4). His response: “I’m thankful for American dispensationalist Christians.”
Food for thought.
January 28th, 2015 @ 11:06 am
All we have to do to analyze your comments is to read your obscene genital references. Quite the intellect, you are. Nothing says classical rhetoric and logic like penis jokes.
January 28th, 2015 @ 11:09 am
He’s getting his 15 minutes of fame. Wombat will come soon and punt him into Outer Darkness.
January 28th, 2015 @ 11:09 am
“Quite the intellect, you are”
Thanks…now how does my dictate?
January 28th, 2015 @ 11:24 am
Game, set and match.
January 28th, 2015 @ 11:33 am
Yeah I know…I hit a home run.
January 28th, 2015 @ 11:43 am
The Jews have a long history of cutting their nose off to spite their face. The liberals Jew is his own worse enemy
January 28th, 2015 @ 11:46 am
Hey I have a family member who actually believes Obama is Bush lite and not a true “progressive” at all. REALLY! Folks progressives are deranged and are completely out of touch with reality
January 28th, 2015 @ 12:07 pm
Obama is hosting Muslim Brotherhood at WH to undermine al Sisi in Egypt. This is not a secret, it is quite open what the Obama Administration is up to.
This is why King Abdullah hated Obama for throwing Mubarak under the bus.
January 28th, 2015 @ 12:21 pm
When did Americans start hating our allies so much, we’re willing to start exporting the tards coming out of our Colleges of Poli Sci, in order to dumb down their elections?
January 28th, 2015 @ 12:42 pm
Ya think? The antisemitic identity wasn’t a big enough clue?
January 28th, 2015 @ 12:56 pm
The Jews are my in-laws. Sure, they can be a bit eccentric at times, but they’re family, and I love them anyway.
p.s. What I wouldn’t give to be able to make a statement like this: “…sitting in Tiberius on the Sea of Galilee one evening drinking Macabees Beer…”
January 28th, 2015 @ 1:04 pm
It was a great time. I spent a week or so doing the obligatory “church tours,” but after that just roamed around. It was pre-marriage to my lovely, longsuffering wife, but let me just say, Israeli chicks are the cat’s meow.
Great American pick-up lines: “May I touch your Uzi?”
January 28th, 2015 @ 1:10 pm
Quite. You’d be the supreme pooh-bah in a junior high cafeteria.
Public school, of course.
January 28th, 2015 @ 1:52 pm
Finrod,
You do know that pResident Dingleberry’s minions are cracking down on “death threats”/”expressing the desire of harm occuring to others”/”wishing death/illness on individuals/groups”, right?*¹
We know nothing of the poor creature unfortunate enough to perform the referenced service on Herp?Troll… and though we can conjecture its probably lacking sentience (inferrable from the danger posed by the service combined w/the recipient,) the critter is obviously lacking a sense of esthetics… excluding blackmail or large quantities of gold bullion, of course.
That you “add insult to injury” by pointing out the obvious danger could, by an overly zealous government minion, be stretched into a threat on that creature.
Of course— if the creature is human, you’ll get much grief.
*¹:
I actually understand the “why” behind the last of that list— Proggies have a “magic wish” mentally so it’s real to them!
;~)}
January 28th, 2015 @ 1:59 pm
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January 28th, 2015 @ 2:21 pm
A legend in your own mind.
January 28th, 2015 @ 2:30 pm
There has been a massive schism in the Democratic party since the 70s. It has been where the Code Pink/ANSWEAR/the rest of the ComIntern has been pushing to eliminate and eradicate the classical liberals of the Andrew Jackson or even early 20th century that thought of eliminating imperialism/colonies and growing liberty trees. These classical liberals are like the GOP when they put TR on the ticket with McKinley. That by having them close we can control them and temper thier fire bellies. The reality is much more different and those that have seen the damage have tried to come over to the GOP. However the GOP and it’s fight tween paleo-conservative, tea party, beltways and all the other identifications make it hard for us to woo enough over to flip some of these states and congressional districts. Besides the radicals in the Democratic leadership say too many other nonsense to keep the classics happy (civil rights, social nets, some liberty discussions). So to make it all work we have to show end game from higher taxes on the blue collar while protecting the “right” management and boards, to punishment issued out not based on anything but those that fallout of favor of the state to finally the support of anti-liberty ideas under the idea that freedoms need to be suppressed to give you freedom.
January 28th, 2015 @ 2:37 pm
Wow.
This is even worse than Clinton’s meddling in Israeli elections back in the 90s
I’m pretty sure some of you will remember Clinton sending down Carville, Greenberg and Shrum to run Ehud Barak’s campaign. Clinton wanted to hand-pick the candidate for his planned legacy of getting a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Boy was that a big swing and a miss.
January 28th, 2015 @ 2:37 pm
ISTR Clinton doing the same thing to try and boot Arik Sharon, and it worked about as well.
January 28th, 2015 @ 2:37 pm
It was. He’s gone now.
January 28th, 2015 @ 2:38 pm
Work is slow at the moment, fortunately.
January 28th, 2015 @ 2:42 pm
Thank you very much for taking out the trash.
January 28th, 2015 @ 2:50 pm
There are many like that. Including my relatives on the Range who think the DFL (spit) is still the party of the working man.
January 28th, 2015 @ 3:03 pm
Calling the democrat party “more secular” is a bit like calling the klan “more white”! How an American of even the slightest profession of faith can in good conscience vote for that pack of goons is beyond me. Hell, on the issue of abortion, how anybody with a spark of plain humanity can do it is beyond me.
January 28th, 2015 @ 3:09 pm
Sending US government agents to gin up racial animosity in Florida?
Sending US government agents to gin up racial animosity on Missouri?
Sending illegal weapons to Mexico?
Sending US money to unseat an allied leader?
All in a day’s work for Barry.
Given what happened to Go-daffy, Netanyahu had better look out for US ships and aircraft approaching Israel in the middle of the night.
January 28th, 2015 @ 3:33 pm
Now you’ve gone and insulted honestly deranged people.
January 28th, 2015 @ 3:41 pm
About the only Israelis that aren’t thankful for Dispensationalist Christians are the so called Orthodox. Christians filming in Israel have had to have Police escorts in Orthodox areas. I saw some footage where an Orthodox Jew actually assaulted the man in front of the camera. Hatred for Christians is deep seated among that group.
Dispensationalists recognize that the Church did not replace Israel in God’s plan. They have a different destiny than the Church, and they will return to God and ask for Christ to return.
January 28th, 2015 @ 3:42 pm
Slick Willie’s minions managed to get Barak elected. Israel paid a very high price for it and elected Sharon as a result.