Posted on 01/27/2015 10:16:39 AM PST by xzins
During Barack Obama's recent State of the Union speech, he told America he had no more campaigns to run. But it seems that statement flies in the face of reports that an organization known as “One Voice” has brought in what has been called a "five-man Obama team" to defeat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Included in that five-man team is Jeremy Bird, the national field director for Obama's 2012 campaign, Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director of the Independent Media Review and Analysis, said Monday, citing a report at Haaretz.
That group, Dr. Lerner added, will run the anti-Netanyahu effort out of offices taking up the ground floor of a Tel Aviv office building. The campaign, known as V-2015, is careful not to support a specific party, but is working to ensure Netanyahu does not win Israel's March election...not subject to that country's campaign finance laws.
"And Obama, of course believes in protocol and propriety which is why he won't get involved," she wrote on Facebook. "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."
News of the team's arrival in Israel comes just days after the administration accused House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, of “breaking protocol” by inviting Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress.
And it's no secret that Obama doesn't like Netanyahu. "You're tired of him -- what about me? I have to deal with him every day," Obama said after former French President Nicolas Sarkozy called the Israeli prime minister a "liar."
According to its webpage, the "One Voice" movement boasts a number of powerful partners. Among the partners listed is Google, the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program and the United States State Department.
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There is a good sized group of liberal Jewish voters, even in Israel.
And there seems to be a sizable group that lives in fear of the US withdrawing its support, so they kowtow to American presidents in general.
They’d do better to fear God. “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit” says the Lord.
NAZI led... good grief you folks carry a lot of baggage.
Thanks SJB.
Ok, whatever. Just a no simple confidence vote in parliament. Nevermind Right Sector in ski masks. (shaking head)
It all happened under immediate violence, as in right outside the building door. And as for no confidence nationally, how did you arrive at this count?
Obama could put 5 million people in DC next week if he really needed to.
On TV it would look like the whole nation was in agreement. That’s why elections are held.
Also, you might want to check, the president of Ukraine serves a 5 year term. It is not a parliamentary system like Netanyahu faces right now, or where elections are called upon a no confidence vote.
And the irony is, the Kiev coup that has unleashed a war was unneeded. had they simply organized and waited, the election would be happening now in 2015.
The fact that they decided do go with a street attack tells me that they know they were not really a majority.
Netanyahu can makes this a liability for the opposition.
What
a
bastard.
Don’t count your chickens.
That address to Congress should get nation-wide coverage in Israel. Maybe that really why Obama is PO’d. Congress is giving Bibi a chance to respond.
naw his teflon coating is far thicker and even more resilient than that of Billy Jeff Clintons..
but he still cant shoot pool,,,,,,,
They should be arrested and jailed.
The president could have played hard-ball with his military, but opted not to. And why did he opt not to? Because he didn’t have support for it.
I agree that the opposition didn’t have the majority, but the fact still remains the president’s party did not remain behind him.
Failing this, he was toast and he resigned.
That is not a coup. His party failed to support him, and he resigned.
No group mounted a military operation that couldn’t have been put down.
It wasn’t a coup.
Tell me, was Nixon’s resignation also a coup?
Mossad should put them in Israeli uniforms and deliver them to ISIS.
That might be a common sentiment here ... however ... there are no laws against what they are doing!
Back then, it would have been politically impossible for an Israeli leader to kick out someone sent to Israel by the US. Even if that person was working to manipulate Israeli politics. Now, maybe they could. I’d love it if they did.
The other thing that Bibi could do is start sprinkling the Obama gay stories around as a warning. No doubt the Israeli intelligence knows all about it. That would be fun.
” The other thing that Bibi could do is start sprinkling the Obama gay stories around as a warning. “
L M A O !!
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