The campaign Web site of Benjamin Netanyahu, right, looks a lot like Barack Obama's, and it's no coincidence.
By ETHAN BRONNER and NOAM COHEN
JERUSALEM — Click on the Russian-language version of the campaign Web site of Benjamin Netanyahu, the conservative Likud leader running for prime minister of Israel, and up pops a picture of him with Barack Obama. On the Hebrew version, Mr. Obama is not pictured. But he is, in fact, everywhere.
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The Obama campaign's Web site.
The website of Benjamin Netanyahu, who is running for prime minister. “Imitation is the greatest form of flattery,” said a Netanyahu adviser.
The colors, the fonts, the icons for donating and volunteering, the use of videos, and the social networking Facebook-type options — including Twitter, which hardly exists in Israel — all reflect a conscious effort by the Netanyahu campaign to learn from the Obama success...........
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PS. Russ Feingold for Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (replacing Biden)
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