| It seems a wasted effort, like so much of the Russian effort previously described — plenty of conservative Republicans were already strongly pro-Israel and pro-Bibi, and so would not be influenced by this. And those who were not would not be influenced by anything positive said about the juices. |
 [IsraelTimes] Researchers find tens of thousands of posts from accounts tied to suspected Russian trolls were aimed at bolstering Trump-Netanyahu relationship
Fake Russian social media accounts have sought to influence relations between the United States and Israel, Israeli television reported on Monday.
Researchers from Clemson University found that of nearly three million posts flagged as being from fake accounts out of so-called Russian troll farms, tens of thousands of them had to do with Israel and the broader region.
Sixty percent of the posts on Israel worked to bolster the relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, oftentimes while criticizing former American president Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it ...
, the researchers found.
For example, some of the posts read that Trump and Netanyahu were jointly exposing "Obama’s failures," the report said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling......
a quarter of the posts highlighted corruption investigations into Netanyahu’s conduct or attacked him from the left, while the remaining 15% were related to news reports, according to the researchers.
The Russian accounts were not trying to influence the Israeli conversation, but rather the American one, where the Jewish state has become a more polarizing issue, the researchers determined.
"Trolls tried to encourage the right in the political division of the US, also the far-right, in order that it will have a positive opinion of Netanyahu," Patrick Warren, who analyzed the tweets along with fellow Clemson researcher Darren Linvill, told Israel’s Channel 10 news.
Other posts however attacked Israel, labelling it an apartheid state and criticizing Netanyahu, the report said.
 The tweets concerning Israel were part of a set of 2,973,371 Twitter posts from fake accounts compiled by the Clemson researchers and uploaded to the internet in concert with the FiveThirtyEight website.
The posts came from some 2,848 accounts tied to the Internet Research Agency, a so-called troll farm based in St. Petersburg, Russia. In February, US special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 people associated with the IRA for plotting to disrupt the 2016 election.
US intelligence agencies have concluded that fake Russian accounts aimed to influence the 2016 American presidential elections, and Facebook and Twitter have been working to identify and boot accounts found to have been started as part of influence campaigns, usually out of Russia.
According to the US intelligence community, Russian hackers targeted at least 21 states ahead of the 2016 elections at Russian President Vladimir Putin
 ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
’s behest. 
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