Washington funds Palestinian campaign

UPI ^ | 8/29/2010

[markomalley]

JERUSALEM, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Washington is funding an ad campaign in Israel that features billboards of Palestinian officials asking: "We are partners -- what about you?"

The campaign launched Sunday includes the faces of senior Palestinian Authority officials Saeb Erekat, Jibril Rajoub, Yasser Abed Rabo and Riad Malki, the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yedioth Aharonoth said.

The aim of the campaign is to persuade Israelis that peace partners on the Palestinian side truly exist, and calls to support a two-state solution, the report said.

The U.S. government was approached to fund the campaign by the Geneva Initiative founders, who drew up an agreement in 2003 to end the Israel Palestinian conflict, the report said.

The United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, invested close to $250,000 toward the creation of the billboards, the paper said.

The campaign has raised a few eyebrows in Israel.

"We are talking about a Palestinian Authority campaign funded by the American government," an Israeli Foreign Ministry official was quoted saying.

[livius]

It is a nightmare. He slaps Americans in the face every day and yet we are doing nothing in response. I don’t know what it’s going to take.

[SunkenCiv]

...features billboards of Palestinian officials asking: "We are partners -- what about you?" ...includes the faces of senior Palestinian Authority officials Saeb Erekat, Jibril Rajoub, Yasser Abed Rabo and Riad Malki, the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yedioth Aharonoth said.

Yeah, I'm sure they are 'partners', but isn't that contrary to the teachings of Mohammed? Seems kinda risky to advertise it. Thanks markomalley.

[Luke21]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139371

I couldn’t find the story we are commenting on anywhere in the Israeli press. They are as propagandized as we are. People truly act like medicated zombies these days.