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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Report: Israeli group used US funds for anti-Netanyahu campaign
The Washington Times says Obama’s State Department gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to an Israeli political group, which used the money to fund a campaign to oust Netanyahu in the March 2015 Knesset elections.
The newspaper quotes a report from the bipartisan Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as saying that the State Department sent some $350,000 to the left-wing OneVoice organization, “ostensibly to support the group’s efforts to back Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement negotiations.”
But, the report says, “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.”
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