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Latest Fact-Checks In Israel

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 11, 2012 a page on the Obama campaign website:
"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Karen Harrington
Karen Harrington
stated on November 12, 2011 an interview:
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "has blamed the Republicans for the creation of Hamas."  
False
By Amy Sherman • December 5, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 22, 2011 a foreign policy debate in Washington, D.C.:
Says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that "if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He will use it against the United States of America."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 23, 2011
Kinky Friedman
Kinky Friedman
stated on August 24, 2011 an opinion column.:
Says Barack Obama’s "favorability rating in Israel once clocked in at 4 percent."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 4, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on May 5, 2011 a presidential debate:
"The Arab and the Muslim nations get twice as much money as Israel."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 21, 2011
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on February 4, 2011 a comment on his television show:
The Muslim Brotherhood has "openly stated they want to declare war on Israel."
False
By Lucas Graves • February 15, 2011
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 4, 2011 an interview with ABC News:
Israel's per capita income "is greater than probably three-fourths of the rest of the world."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 4, 2011
Allen West
Allen West
stated on November 21, 2010 TV interview:
The U.S. "had the opportunity with Israel coming and talking to us about improving our security screening procedures, and we turned them down."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 8, 2010
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 18, 2010 ABC's "This Week":
"Dubai is the only country with huge amounts of imported workers that's actually passed legislation to give these immigrant workers a better deal in the Middle East."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • April 20, 2010
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on September 2, 2008 an e-mail.:
"(Palin) supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000."
False
By Edward Epstein • September 3, 2008
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on May 12, 2008 a news release.:
Says Obama called Israel "a constant sore" that infects U.S. foreign policy.
False
By Bill Adair • May 13, 2008
Tennessee Republican Party
Tennessee Republican Party
stated on February 25, 2008 in a press release:
"You don't even have to go outside Obama's campaign to find advisers who are anti-Israel."
False
By Robert Farley • March 14, 2008
Tennessee Republican Party
Tennessee Republican Party
stated on February 25, 2008 a news release:
"The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • March 14, 2008
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