Obama wins, Netanyahu loses

Source: Salon

JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama’s decisive victory provoked a day of political ricochets in Israel, which faces elections of its own in just under two and a half months.

In Jerusalem Tel Aviv, the day after the elections felt a bit like it does when a cousin delivers bombshell news at a family reunion, with eruptions of frenzy and concern.

There were those, like esteemed Ha’aretz columnist Chemi Shalev, who wagged their fingers in slightly reproachful I-told-you-so’s. No one had been fully honest about the Republican campaign, he said.

“Nowhere was the blatant disregard for facts, for reality and for a sense of proportion more evident than in the hypocrisy and hyperbole so cynically employed in order to try and depict Obama as some sort of latter day Haman who seeks to undermine Israel, if not to destroy the Jewish people completely,” he wrote. “Many millions of dollars were wasted in a futile effort to wrest away a few percentage points of Jewish voters away from the Democrats and into the Republican camp.”

The result? Almost 70 percent of Jewish support for Obama.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/obama_wins_netanyahu_loses/

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Ooh! Erm! Th-that was more that four paragraphs!

Yeah, by one line: Now quit complaining.