Former Bill Clinton strategist and Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who is
today advising the Israeli Labor Party campaign, is accusing Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of having ordered the break-in of his Washington office almost fourteen years ago, The Blaze reports.
In 1999, the office of Greenberg’s polling company was broken into
twice within two weeks. After the first overnight intrusion into the
building situated just blocks from the U.S. Capitol, Israeli media likened the incident
to the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters
at the Watergate office complex that ultimately led to President Richard
Nixon’s resignation.
In the second incident, intruders broke through a second story window and disabled an alarm that was installed after the first theft. At the time, Greenberg was advising Labor Party leader Ehud Barak,
Perhaps to score a political point for
his client Shelly Yechimovich chose in an interview to Amit Segal for Channel 2, to blame Netanyahu for the 1999 criminal
acts in Washington.
Q: Do you still believe it was Mr. Netanyahu’s command?
A: Yes.
Q: Really.
A: [Laugh] Without evidence. But, yeah, I can’t find anyplace else.
In 1998, Netanyahu mocked his then-rival Barak for relying so much on
his American advisers, which included James Carville. Netanyahu then
referred to Greenberg in a Knesset speech as he addressed Barak:
“Indeed, you frequently dial the 202 area code. For whoever doesn’t
know, that’s Washington. I don’t know how savvy that Greenberg is about
Israeli politics.