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Netanyahu steals Obama's webpage. Image courtesy: NYT

Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister of Israel, has been caught red handed. And before you ask, let me just tell you, no, he was thankfully not guilty of the, ahem, inappropriate behaviour that got Olmert in trouble, or got Ariel Sharon’s son sent to jail, or even the ‘stuff‘ that the Israeli president, Moshe Katsav was found to be indulging in. Netanyahu has blazed his own trail of controversy… he’s been exposed as somewhat of a plagiarist. For all the talk of the ‘innovation’ that originates in the place Netanyahu calls home, we would think there would be a couple of web designers capable of an original design. Apparently not. Their web designs – not unlike, some would argue, their ‘innovation‘, their budgetary ‘support’ and what they buy with it – all come from the US of A.

Cnet has more on the story.

November 15, 2008 8:46 AM PST

Israeli candidate borrows a (Web) page From Obama

By Ethan Bronner
The New York Times

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, Obama is not pictured. But he is, in fact, everywhere.

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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