http://buzzpo.com/obama-more-involved-in-israeli-election-than-reported/?utm_content=buffer165fc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=positivelyrepublican23 MAR
2015
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BUZZPO PAIGE
President Obama was more involved in trying to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu than was initially thought.
John McLaughlin, a Republican strategist, noted “what was not well reported… is that President Obama and his allies were playing in the election to defeat [Netanyahu]. There was money moving that included taxpayer U.S. dollars, through non-profit organizations. And there were various liberal groups in the United States that were raising millions to fund a campaign called V15 against [Netanyahu]”.
V15, or Victory 15, sent out advertisements against Netanyahu. The organization was led by Jeremy Bird, who has worked as a political operative for Obama in the past. The group was also linked to OneVoice Movement, a group that is a nonprofit – one that received $350,000 in grants from the State Department.
V15 co-founder Nimrod Dweck has argued against these claims, saying “these are false allegations and they have nothing to do with reality”.
However, McLaughlin revealed another interesting faucet of this election. “The State Department people in the end of January, early February, expedited via for [Israeli] Arab leaders to come to the United States to learn how to vote”.
“They were running an ACORN, Obama Organizing for America-type campaign over there with the digital ads, the billboards, the phones. They were targeting Israeli voters,” Representative Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said.
