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<blockquote data-quote="floridays" data-source="post: 5402097" data-attributes="member: 68849">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://nypost.com/2018/05/23/the-hypocrisy-of-american-election-investigations-into-israel/[/URL]First, Obama — <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/03/what-obama-is-actually-trying-to-do-in-israel/37548/" target="_blank">according to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg</a>, a close watcher of the Obama team’s Mideast work — tried to “force a rupture in the governing coalition that will make it necessary for Netanyahu to take into his government [Tzipi] Livni’s centrist Kadima Party.”When that didn’t work, the president went all in. A bipartisan report from the Senate, issued in July 2016, found that taxpayer dollars were involved. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded that $350,000 had gone to a group called OneVoice. It obeyed the rules of the grant, intended to support peace.Once the grant ended, though, the infrastructure and resources “created, in part, from US grant funds” were, said the Senate, used “to support a political campaign to defeat the incumbent Israeli government.”From the left leaning Atlantic March 2010[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/03/what-obama-is-actually-trying-to-do-in-israel/37548/[/URL]&nbsp;I&#039;m not actually suggesting that the White House is directly meddling in internal Israeli politics, but it&#039;s clear to everyone -- at the White House, at the State Department, at Goldblog -- that no progress will be made on any front if Avigdor Lieberman&#039;s far-right party, Yisrael Beiteinu, and Eli Yishai&#039;s fundamentalist Shas Party, remain in Netanyahu&#039;s surpassingly fragile coalition.So what is the goal? The goal is force a rupture in the governing coalition that will make it necessary for Netanyahu to take into his government Livni&#039;s centrist Kadima Party (he has already tried to do this, but too much on his terms) and form a broad, 68-seat majority in Knesset that does not have to rely on gangsters, messianists and medievalists for votes.PolitiFact, seriously?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="floridays, post: 5402097, member: 68849"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2018/05/23/the-hypocrisy-of-american-election-investigations-into-israel/[/URL] First, Obama — [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/03/what-obama-is-actually-trying-to-do-in-israel/37548/']according to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg[/URL], a close watcher of the Obama team’s Mideast work — tried to “force a rupture in the governing coalition that will make it necessary for Netanyahu to take into his government [Tzipi] Livni’s centrist Kadima Party.” When that didn’t work, the president went all in.[B] A bipartisan report from the Senate[/B], issued in July 2016, found that taxpayer dollars were involved. [B]The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations [/B]concluded that $350,000 had gone to a group called OneVoice. It obeyed the rules of the grant, intended to support peace. [B]Once the grant ended, though, the infrastructure and resources “created, in part, from US grant funds” were, said the Senate, used “to support a political campaign to defeat the incumbent Israeli government.”[/B] From the left leaning Atlantic March 2010 [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/03/what-obama-is-actually-trying-to-do-in-israel/37548/[/URL] I'm not actually suggesting that the White House is directly meddling in internal Israeli politics, but it's clear to everyone -- at the White House, at the State Department, at Goldblog -- that no progress will be made on any front if Avigdor Lieberman's far-right party, Yisrael Beiteinu, and Eli Yishai's fundamentalist Shas Party, remain in Netanyahu's surpassingly fragile coalition. So what is the goal? The goal is force a rupture in the governing coalition that will make it necessary for Netanyahu to take into his government Livni's centrist Kadima Party (he has already tried to do this, but too much on his terms) and form a broad, 68-seat majority in Knesset that does not have to rely on gangsters, messianists and medievalists for votes. PolitiFact, seriously? [/QUOTE]

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