There have been reports of the Obama administration having worked to support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition in the recent Israeli election. According to Republican pollster John McLaughlin, that support may have gone further than previously believed.
The Hill reports that McLaughlin has claimed taxpayer money flowed to non-profit groups working against Netanyahu, to the benefit of his opponent, Isaac Herzog:
“What was not well reported in the American media is that President Obama and his allies were playing in the election to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu,” John McLaughlin, a Republican strategist, said in an interview on John Catsimatidis’s “The Cats Roundtable” radio show broadcast Sunday on AM 970 in New York.
“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 Prime Minister Netanyahu,” McLaughlin said.
V15 has denied the allegations, especially since Prime Minister Netanyahu’s re-election victory:
After Netanyahu’s win, V15 co-founder Nimrod Dweck said in an interview with Ronan Farrow aired on MSNBC’s “Jose Diaz-Balart” that “not a single cent” of State Department or taxpayer money had gone to their campaign.
“These are false allegations and they have nothing to do with reality,” Dweck said.
The Obama administration expressed disappointment with Netanyahu in an interview with The Huffington Post this week. The Prime Minister has since apologized for comments made on election day about Arab-Israeli voters.
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