I’m betting Barack Obama, the guy who claims he doesn’t want to influence Israel’s upcoming election by meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu during his scheduled address to Congress in March—which, of course, is just the feeble excuse of a hypocrite— would like to bury this little golden nugget: Jeremy Bird, a field director for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns—he also worked on John Kerry’s presidential campaign, founded Battleground Texas, and consults for Ready for Hillary—is reportedly in Israel with a group of four other Americans attempting to, yep, influence Israel’s elections by bankrolling opposition. From Independent Media Review Analysis:

Monday, January 26, 2015

Foreign Funding Bankrolls Anti-Netanyahu Campaign – Flies in 5-Man Obama Team

Haaretz reporter Roi Arad revealed in an article in the Hebrew edition today that the foreign funded organization, “One Voice”, is bankrolling the V-2015 campaign to defeat Binyamin Netanyahu’s national camp in the March 2015 Knesset Elections.

One indication of the generous financing is that it has now flown in a team of five American campaign experts (including Jeremy Bird, the Obama campaign’s national field director) who will run the campaign out of offices taking up the ground floor of a Tel Aviv office building.

V-2015 is careful not to support a specific party – rather “just not Bibi”. As such, the foreign funds pouring into the campaign are not subject to Israel’s campaign finance laws.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA

Well, how convenient. The very party operatives that created Barack Obama, the same party operatives that continuously screech about foreign money influencing our own campaigns, are careful not to back a specific candidate in order to…circumvent the campaign finance laws of a foreign nation. Its hypocrisy knows no bounds.

And yes, it’s a well-known fact that Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed support for Mitt Romney in 2012, and it was reportedly well-disseminated news from the Leftist journalists in Israel. The interference of Jeremy Bird and his deep-pocketed campaign-influencers are, however, not receiving the same news coverage from those very same Leftist reporters. Shocking, I know.

More, from author Caroline Glick:

And remember this gag-inducing groaner from last week’s State of the Union Address (hat tip Susan L.M. Goldberg of PJ Media):

Well, at least not in the United States of America, he’s not.

To be fair, it’s not been established that the Leader of the Free World is directly linked to the campaign to unseat Israel’s incumbent Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. If we’ve learned anything from the Benghazi, IRS, Fast and Furious, EPA, ObamaCare, and any other of the scandals du jour, it’s that Barack Obama has mastered the fine art of plausible deniability. And he’ll deny this one, too. After all, it’s the Chicago Way.

UPDATE [11:50 am] The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that the group working to oust Netanyahu, OneVoice International, is funded by our State Department. “One Voice” being a collective Leftist voice, this blogger is guessing.

“OneVoice International received two grants from the U.S. State Department over the past year, and lists the agency as a ‘partner’ on its website. Taler said the group is not using this money for its Israeli election-related efforts.”