Posted by moy23 on 6/10/2017 8:59:00 PM (view original):
Posted by laramiebob on 6/10/2017 8:45:00 PM (view original):
:July 12, 2016
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."
According to PunditFact this claim is "mostly false", because the funds (those hundreds of 1000's of dollars of taxpayer money) involved were provided BEFORE (the money stopped flowing in 2014!) Netanyahu even called for the election. Apparently Obama had NO control over HOW the money was spent by the organization receiving the funds (OneVoice). Either your claim is FAKE news OR PunditFact is not a reputable source.
I will admit to having no idea who the F*** PunditFact is.
Take up your issues with them!
Washington Post:
Under the auspices of Chairman Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) has released a report today confirming allegations that an NGO with connections to President Obama’s 2008 campaign used U.S. taxpayer dollars attempting to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015. President Obama has had the worst relationship of any U.S. president with the elected prime minister of the Jewish State.
The times of Israel:
The US government supported a group that tried to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year to the tune of nearly $350,000, or NIS 1.3 million, a Senate inquiry published Tuesday found, though it cleared the State Department of any wrongdoing.
The bipartisan probe found no illegal activity in funding the OneVoice group, which became the V15 campaign to oust Netanyahu, though its report chided the State Department for having failed to prevent state funds being used, albeit legally and indirectly, to influence an allied country’s internal political process.