affiliate in the group now trying to unseat netanyahu. and millions of dollars are being spent outside of israel to influence this election. what s your reaction? first of all, it does appear that the u.s. government in some way has funded some of these programs that are now being channelled to get out the vote effort. whether or not that was port of a deliberate plan to unseat netanyahu is unknown. we have no way of knowing. we really do. that money is being spent to organize and get out the vote of israeli arabs that are viewed as left of center isn t that true? well to me what s more problematic is the actual overt activity of democratic operatives in the u.s. some of whom as you point out are very close to netanyahu. obviously there s taxpayer funding they want to depose the prime