Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust Netanyahu
"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.
Some $350,000 was
sent to OneVoice, ostensibly to support the group’s efforts to back
Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement negotiations. But OneVoice used the
money to build a voter database, train activists and hire a political
consulting firm with ties to President Obama’s campaign — all of which
set the stage for an anti-Netanyahu campaign, the Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations said in a bipartisan staff report.
In one stunning finding, the subcommittee said OneVoice even told the State Department’s
top diplomat in Jerusalem of its plans in an email, but the official,
Consul General Michael Ratney, claims never to have seen them."
[Washington Times]
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