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    In helping Netanyahu, Trump adds new twist to US meddling

    Apr 12, 2019 5 minutes

    When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped to the stage in Tel Aviv early Wednesday morning to claim victory in this week’s national elections, not all of the banners greeting him from the sea of supporters were about him.

    Some of them carried the name of a foreign leader: “TRUMP.”

    Those conspicuously waving flags underscored the outsize role President Donald Trump and his administration played in Israeli elections that ended up delivering Mr. Netanyahu an unprecedented fifth term, his fourth consecutive, as prime minister.

    Just as remarkable, many international affairs experts say, was the very unsubtle manner in which an American president threw his weight behind a personal favorite in another country’s election.

    “Trump never said ‘Vote Bibi’ … [but] as far as I can remember this is unprecedented – [a U.S.

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