Benjamin Netanyahu did everything shy of stuffing ballot boxes for Mitch Romney. He gambled, and lost. Now Benny will have to wait to see what his odious efforts have earned him.
Israel awoke to the news it faced what many see as a political and diplomatic relationship in need of rehabilitation.
The close relationship of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with US casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who devoted millions to Mr Romney, was noted by the Obama administration, Eytan Gilboa of the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies said.
''This is not a good development … to see Democrat perceptions that the Israeli Prime Minister is actively intervening in the US election,'' Professor Gilboa said.
Criticisms of Mr Netanyahu were quick to emerge. ''The Prime Minister hurt Israel with his arrogant and incomprehensible involvement on the side of Mitt Romney,'' Shlomo Molla, an MP for the opposition Kadima party, told the Jerusalem Post.
The Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat said Palestinians hoped Mr Obama would work to end Israel's occupation and realise the establishment of a Palestinian state on 1967 borders ''living side-by-side in peace with the State of Israel''.
Benny Badman and the Chutzpah trio were playing a little off key.
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An aside....this morning it was reported the election in the US cost 6 billion dollars....now isn't that a tidy sum which could have build low cost housing units in the US...ah yes! The US doesn't support anything that smells the lest bit socialist.
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