By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 18, 2015
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"Israel is ideal for door-to-door campaigning due to the small size of the country. Because of the large number of political parties and high voter turnout, he believes it’s possible to talk with enough people to change the government." --Jeremy Bird to Haaretz.Jeremy Bird’s goose is cooked, and will be hard to get off the platter again. His touted talent as an election pooh-bah was spent for naught in Israel. Even with American tax dollars, even with George Soros, even with the spite of Obama, it fizzled out. Bird, who served as Obama's campaign National field director in 2012, was one of four U.S. consultants working with Tel Aviv based Victory 2015 or V15, to oust Netanyahu from office. He has been described by Israeli newspapers as V15's "secret campaign weapon." V15 says it supports no particular candidate, but want to replace Netanyahu. V15 is funded by an organization called OneVoice. “Back in 2011, President Obama was caught on a hot mic along with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, complaining about Netanyahu. As reported in ABC News,
“Obama began by reproaching Sarkozy for not warning him in advance that France would vote in favor of Palestinian membership of UNESCO. “The conversation turned to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, with Sarkozy saying ,’I don’t want to see him anymore, he’s a liar.’ “To which President Obama replied: ‘You’ve had enough of him, but I have to deal with him every day!’ Obama then asked Sarkozy to try to convince the Palestinians to slow down with their UN membership drive.”The election victory of Netanyahu is not only a slap in the face to Obama, but to the fawning leaders of England, France, Italy and the European Union who ignored Netanyahu’s eloquent plea to American congress to not give access to nuclear power to Iran. OORAH to Bibi.
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