Donald Trump took the credit yesterday for boosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tuesday’s elections.
The US leader posted: ‘When President Trump endorsed Bibi Netanyahu, the whole tide turned, and now, rather than a decisive defeat for a great prime minister, it looks like a big come-from-behind stalemate, or even a WIN for Netanyahu.’
Mr Trump publicly backed Netanyahu on October 18, just nine days before Israelis went to the polls, giving the country’s longest-serving Prime Minister ‘complete and total endorsement’.
Early results showed the Israeli PM’s Likud party and its allies had fared better than expected.
His Right-wing bloc was on course
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