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What Netanyahu Has Wrought

• Consortium News

By Michael Winship

For a long time now, American political consultants have benefited from a lucrative sideline, selling their alleged expertise to politicians in Israel. (It was Democratic strategist James Carville who, after working on a campaign for former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, joked that the key to victory in Israel was who won "that all-important Jewish vote.")

It was no different during this past week's Israeli election. Benjamin Netanyahu's winning Likud Party had Republican Vincent Harris, the 26-year-old whiz kid who helped engineer Sen. Ted Cruz's victory in Texas. Veteran Democrats Paul Begala and Stan Greenberg were working for the Zionist Union coalition of Labor and other political parties, and the anti-Netanyahu group V15 hired President Barack Obama's campaign field director Jeremy Bird.


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