Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.
In the Passover seder we recite the following quote from the Torah:
And there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph. (Exodus 1.8)
The sages tell us that the new Pharaoh did not want to know Joseph, did not want to acknowledge the Jewish slave who rose to become Viceroy of Egypt, the wise Israelite who rescued Egypt from famine.
The Israeli election of 2015 is a crushing defeat for Barack Obama and the appeasers of the left.
Despite the dozens of Obama’s Democrat operatives who flooded Israel in the past few months, despite the unprecedented vilification Benjamin Netanyahu has suffered at the hands of the mainstream American and Israeli media (save for Sheldon Adelson’s daily Israel Hayom), despite the leftist alliance with the Joint (Arab) List whose declared goal is to dismantle the Jewish state, and despite the laundered money that Obama’s State Department funneled into the coffers of leftist Israeli political operatives, Netanyahu and Likud won a historic victory.
How did the polls get it so wrong?