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9 am Israel time, Tuesday, March 24 2015

**With the addition of Koolanu and Yisrael Beiteinu nominations yesterday, Benjamin Netanyahu has now lined up 67 seats for his new coalition. 

Once officially tasked by President Rivlin (expected tomorrow or Thursday), PM Netanyahu will then have 28 days to present his government. If necessary, he can ask the President for a 14 day extension on top of that.

What obstacles does Netanyahu face at this point? There are at least 4 people who want to be finance minister (even though he has promised the job to Moshe Kahlon of Koolanu), 4 people who want to be defense minister, 4 people who want to be foreign minister . . . you get the idea. Sorting out who gets what position, and what legislative priorities the new government will have will probably take 28 days at least.

**The Israeli public has long since grown weary of the unmitigated arrogance of President Obama telling us what to do through his own words or those of his Administration.

When Obama Chief of Staff Denis McDonough took the podium at the J St convention yesterday, we all knew what was coming.

McDonough, laughably, did not disappoint as he launched into an invective against PM Netanyahu. But the most laughable comments of all had to be these:

“Some have suggested our reaction to this issue [Netanyahu’s comments] is a matter of personal pique, nothing could be further from the truth . . . That is why President Obama has said that we need to re-evaluate our approach to the peace process and how we pursue the cause of peace – because, like all of you, we care deeply about Israel and its future. We will look to the next Israeli government to match words with actions and policies that demonstrate a genuine commitment to a two-state solution.”

Not a matter of personal pique? Come on Denis, who is kidding whom?

J Street cares deeply about Israel and its future? If J Streeters cared so much about Israel and its future, they would come live in Israel and try to mold the country in their image instead of delegitimizing it.

We care deeply about Israel and its future? If Obama cared so much about Israel and its future, he would fully support the democratic process in Israel and not try to manipulate it.

We will look to the next Israeli government to match words with actions and policies? Perhaps the Obama Administration would do well to try to match its words with its actions and policies. 

TODAY’S BLOG:

As noted above, President Obama and his White House minions kept up their hourly attack on PM Netanyahu yesterday over his “no Palestinian state during my term in office” and his Facebook “left-wing NGOs are busing Israeli-Arabs to the polls in droves” comments.

But do you know what the attitude on the Israel street is? 

Yawn. Who cares? What’s new? Obama is a shmuck who hates Israel, and we’ll have to live with him for two more years. We elected Netanyahu, and he is able to deal with it. Yawn. What’s the cost of cottage cheese today?
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Nevertheless, in an attempt to quell the absurd chorus of criticism emanating from the Obama White House and from the Left here in Israel, PM Netanyahu issued an apology yesterday–of sorts–for his Facebook comment:

“I know that the things I said a few days ago hurt some citizens in Israel, the Arab Israeli citizens. This was not my intention and I am sorry. My actions as prime minister, including massive investment in minority sectors, prove the exact opposite. I think, similarly, that no element outside the state of Israel should intervene in our democratic processes.“

And who was the element outside the state of Israel that intervened in our democratic processes?

President Barack Obama via John Kerry and the U.S. State Department.

It has already been pointed out in previous blogs that Obama was up to his neck in meddling in the Israel elections through the insertion of Jeremy Bird to lead the V15 movement here. And it was Obama who played the race card by having his State Department fund organizations like Ameinu to get out the Israeli-Arab vote to oust Netanyahu. The State Department funded these organizations by claiming they were supplying money for “educational activities”.

But now it appears that the Obama Administration did much more than that. The U.S. State Department apparently expedited visas to the leaders of the three Israeli-Arab parties to come to Washington in January and February and learn how to form a block and generate a high voter turnout against Netanyahu.

And now President Obama hypocritically wants to call Netanyahu a racist? And, as of this morning will not accept his “apology” about the Facebook comment? What is the old expression? People who live in glass houses [in this case the White House] shouldn’t throw stones.

One final note: much has been made of the terminology that Netanyahu used in his Facebook comment, that Netanyahu said that Arab voters were voting “in droves”—suggesting that Israel-Arabs were merely like cattle.

Of course, Netanyahu’s Facebook call to his base was not in English. He used a Hebrew word that means “en masse” or “in great numbers”; the “in droves” was the translation provided by a “leftist” journalist in Israel which was, in turn, picked up by media outlets all over the world.