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Netanyahu Hiring Obama Consultants

I had no idea:

Before the Gaza strikes, which entered their fifth day Wednesday after Israel rejected a plan for a 48-hour ceasefire, Israeli observers had widely expected the hawkish Likud leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, to be chosen as the country?s next prime minister. Netanyahu has hired some of Obama?s consultants and imitated his campaign ? but isn?t seen as an Obama favorite.

Now, Defense Minister Ehud Barak ? President Bill Clinton?s negotiating partner in the late 1990s ? is the grim face of an Israeli offensive that appears, for the moment, to be popular and his anemic Labor Party has seen a momentary bump in the polls.

Is Netanyahu also running on change? He hasn't been Prime Minister since 1999, when he was replaced by . . . you guessed it, Ehud Barak. Israeli politics runs in cycles, so interestingly, I suppose "change" is really the same thing as "more of the same."

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on January 02, 2009 (boomark / email).