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News ID: 62971
Publish Date : 06 February 2019 - 21:24

‘U.S. Interfering in Polls to Help Netanyahu’


WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – An Israeli paper speculates that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump could be meddling in Israel’s elections to help secure a win for Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a report, The Jerusalem Post raised the suspicion after Trump shared a photo directly from Netanyahu’s Instagram account, which showed an election poster made by Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party of the two shaking hands and smiling.
The advertisement captioned "Netanyahu: In a different league” prompted similar criticism after first showing up in Tel Aviv.
It has now turned up elsewhere across streets in the territories occupied, by the Zionist regime said Arutz Sheva on its website.
The Jerusalem Post further pointed to the large numbers of likes and comments under Trump’s share, saying this raised "concerns about election interference.”
The network went as far as saying Likud had "recruited” Trump to promote its election chances.
Late last month, it was reported that the party had released a promotional video glorifying the two politicians’ relationship by boasting about Trump’s relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy occupied city of al-Quds last May.
The embassy relocation flew in the face of internationally-recognized Palestinian demands that the occupied city’s eastern part serve as the capital of their future state.
It also circumvented a United Nations General Assembly resolution that had called on Trump to retract its recognition of al-Quds as the reigme’s "capital,” which he had announced in late 2017.
Likud’s video begins with a text on the screen stating, "They said it’s impossible,” referring to the embassy transfer.
It also features Trump’s announcement of the relocation and Netanyahu’s statement that "the U.S. embassy needs to be here, in Jerusalem (al-Quds).”
Trump began contributing to Netanyahu’s political powerbase in 2013, when he appeared in a video made by a Likud promoter, voicing all-out verbal support for the premier. "
So vote for Benjamin, terrific guy, terrific leader, great for Israel,” Trump had said in the footage.

A picture shared on U.S. President Donald Trump’s Instagram account from Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s page shows an election poster made by Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party of the two shaking hands and smiling.