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Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Received: by 10.25.24.98 with SMTP id o95csp396500lfi; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:35:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.4.34 with SMTP id h2mr57754936obh.39.1426692910879; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <pbegala@hatcreekent.com> Received: from gwo1.mbox.net (gwo1.mbox.net. [165.212.64.21]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ny8si9518527obc.54.2015.03.18.08.35.10 for <john.podesta@gmail.com> (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning pbegala@hatcreekent.com does not designate 165.212.64.21 as permitted sender) client-ip=165.212.64.21; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning pbegala@hatcreekent.com does not designate 165.212.64.21 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=pbegala@hatcreekent.com Received: from gwo1.mbox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwo1.mbox.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3l6b655zp2z18blPR for <john.podesta@gmail.com>; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:35:09 +0000 (UTC) X-USANET-Received: from gwo1.mbox.net [127.0.0.1] by gwo1.mbox.net via mtad (C8.MAIN.4.00W) with ESMTP id 552TcRPht4784Mo1; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:33:45 -0000 X-USANET-Routed: 5 gwsout-gwsd Q:gwsd X-USANET-Routed: 3 gwsout-vs Q:bmvirus X-USANET-GWS2-Tenant: hatcreekent.com X-USANET-GWS2-Tagid: HTCE Received: from S1P5HUB7.EXCHPROD.USA.NET [165.212.120.254] by gwo1.mbox.net via smtad (C8.MAIN.4.01M) with ESMTPS id XID043TcRPht8599Xo1; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:33:45 -0000 X-USANET-Source: 165.212.120.254 OUT pbegala@hatcreekent.com S1P5HUB7.EXCHPROD.USA.NET TLS X-USANET-MsgId: XID043TcRPht8599Xo1 Received: from S1P5DAG5D.EXCHPROD.USA.NET ([169.254.4.188]) by S1P5HUB7.EXCHPROD.USA.NET ([10.120.223.37]) with mapi id 14.03.0210.002; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:33:35 +0000 From: "Begala, Paul" <pbegala@hatcreekent.com> To: John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> Subject: RE: Got a take Thread-Topic: Got a take Thread-Index: AQHQYY+7U+qWcGOYaUOZDtJ5v3H79Z0iXIVf Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:33:35 +0000 Message-ID: <8CC593756EE71147BEC2E8376A8338EC4BFF1014@S1P5DAG5D.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> References: <CAE6FiQ-kpcWo63u6QoFTbJTQcu248ROs9sOLODNOhmD_cXajkQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE6FiQ-kpcWo63u6QoFTbJTQcu248ROs9sOLODNOhmD_cXajkQ@mail.gmail.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [47.19.88.20] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Just as patterns of immigration are moving the US left, patterns of immigra= tion are moving Israel right. I have never seen anything like Bibi's furio= us surge to the right in the last 4 days. Nothing like it in America. He = had robo-calls calling the President "Hussein Obama, the Muslim," he had ad= s saying the Arabs will vote in droves. He accused Herzog of wanting to di= vide Jerusalem. Bibi did not win because of Iran. He won because of race.= He cannibalized the smaller parties on the right: Bennett's Jewish Home = lost 4 seats, Shas lost 4 seats, Lieberman's party lost 5 seats, United Tor= ah lost 1. That is a 14 seat decline on the right. Bibi gained 10. =20 The guy to watch is Moshe Kahlon. Slightly more moderate than Bibi, formed= his own party and took 10 seats. Might have done better but Bibi doctored= an endorsement Kahlon gave him two years ago and made it look like it happ= ened two days before the election. All the smart guys in Tel Aviv thought Bibi was having a nervous breakdown.= In the US you could never get away with those kind of racist appeals. Bu= t, man, did it work. On our side, we focused on trying to hold down Lapid's Yesh Atid, but never= really attacked him - a mistake. We also did zero rallies in the final da= ys - Buji doesn't like them and he is not a rah-rah guy. This gave all the= bandwagon effect to Bibi. I am still half-wasted from my hospital stay, and am deeply depressed that = I failed such a good guy in such a big race. ________________________________________ From: John Podesta [john.podesta@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 11:24 AM To: Begala, Paul Subject: Got a take On Israel other than the obvious?