“Despite a small minority of Democrats and Israeli reporters seeking to curry favor with Obama, Netanyahu’s speech to Congress elicited overwhelming support.”
Israel Hayom (Israel Today) is the money-losing free news daily which Sheldon Adelson set up in 2007 mainly to support Benjamin Netanyahu. In Israel it is often mocked “Bibiton” (The Bibi News, roughly). But through a mix of being free and popular it rocketed to being the most-read news daily. Netanyahu’s opponents — not unreasonably — complain that the entire thing is a massive campaign/propaganda contribution to Netanyahu. In any case, I was looking at its English language version today and here’s the ‘deck’ for their lead article on the site …
Despite a small minority of Democrats and Israeli reporters seeking to curry favor with Obama, Netanyahu’s speech to Congress elicited overwhelming support • Most Americans want to prevent a bad deal with Iran. They want answers from the administration.
It’s flagged notionally, inconspicuously, as “opinion.” But it’s also listed at the top under “Top Stories.”
