US Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Pro-Palestinian Ad Campaign in Israel
**Written by Doug Powers
Last month, a California Congressman distributed talking points among the ranks stressing Obama and the Democrats “unprecedented” support for Israel:
The July 22 memo from Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Affairs, declared that the backing from Obama and the House Democrats have been unprecedented.
“I think you will find [this document] useful to make the case that House Democrats and the President are as good if not better than any Congress or Administration that has come before,” Berman, who is Jewish, said in an e-mail to Democrats in Congress.
Meanwhile, across the ocean:
Washington is funding an ad campaign in Israel featuring 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 and Yasser Abed Rabo, and Riad Malki, Palestinian foreign affairs minister, Yedioth Aharonoth said.
The aim of the campaign is to persuade Israelis that peace partners on the Palestinian side truly exist, and calls for support of a two-state solution, the Tel Aviv newspaper 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.
The UPI reports that about $250,000 US dollars have been spent on the billboard campaign in Israel (I’d ask how much is being spent to send the same “we’re your peace partner” message to the Palestinians, but I’m guessing I know the answer).
(h/t Israel Matzav)
**Written by Doug Powers
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If you gotta advertize that you’re somebody’s friend, well, then you probably aren’t. Why don’t they just use facebook, it’s cheaper?
More wasted $$$$$ down the rabbit hole, more wasted time, more wasted speeches, more WASTE, WASTE, WASTE, WASTE. Hey Mr. dumb president, the palistinians hate us, they hate Israel, they want to kill the jews…period. They announce this regularly in public, they scream it daily on tv, radio. Is this administration just ignorant or what???
The billboards on the Palestinian side were quickly dismantled, providing much-needed sheet-metal for rockets, along with columns that were converted to launch rails.
The paper was incorporated as filler for explosives…except for a card-sized piece on which a “Thank you” message was inscribed.
AP
From what part of the US budget is this so called ad campaign coming from?
If we Americans, taxpayers, actuall knew how much money this bho, team, and the d’s are sending the rop type countries, it would probably blow our minds! We are paying for restoration on mosques all over the world and gosh knows what else. This little ditty ad should make Bibi feel all warm and fuzzy coming to talk with this bho in a few days. Gads, I detest this bho! God please be with Israel and their people.
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UM,
I was under the impression that the US Government did NOT support terrorists?
Oh… That’s right, they do now…
http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/29/coming-august-31-direct-access-stimulus-grants-for-the-muslim-brotherhood/
letget,
S/B actually
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Let me guess the break down of the cost by the Palestian Authority was $50,000 for the billboard and $200,000 for the Palestian Authority to give Hamas to buy more rockets.
How much in taxpayer money would it take to educate the Democrats and the White House on the definition of the word, “unprecedented”?
Leaving aside, of course, that it’s so over-used by this administration that it’s nearly lost its meaning altogether.
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It’s no wonder no one trusts the U.S.
Ask the R.O.C.
Just sent emails to my Missouri senators.
Here is what I got for the word unprecedneted:
So it looks like perhaps this is another Clinton depending on the definition of is moment. Perhaps what he meant is that this type of support of Isreal is unprecedented in the fact that no other administration has had such tepid support for Isreal.
They don’t have one with Ashid Ma’Drors?
Hmm. Strange.
Um…. is this not a blatant violation of the UN Charter?
As the US is now pushing its own agenda on the electorate of a sovereign State?
Wow… just wow…
Now that’s funny, right there. I don’t care who you are.
Who approves all this sh*t???
How can we stop it???
If I found out that Obama was sending money to open up Al Queda training camps in Kabul, it really wouldn’t surprise me. Just imagine anything that is unthinkable, outrageous, counter intuitive, illogical, and devoid of common sense, and this administration is likely doing it on some level, somewhere.
Good point. I thought that Obama had complained in Frnace about the arrogance of America thinking that they could tell other coutries how to govern?
Great. Our tax dollars funding anti-Semitic propaganda. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
What is it with Liberal Jews? They held out hope for a reform in National Socialist Germany and were rewarded with Dachau and Bergen Belsen. Soviet Russia gave them the pogroms and Siberia. American Jews are inexorably drawn to “progressive” Socialist movements that invariably betray them.
Never do they consider Conservative alternatives because Conservatives don’t have a bent for the redistribution of others’ wealth. Redistribution is the center of “compassion” and “social justice”. Bizarre. Obama and the Democrats will sell out Israel in a heartbeat if they could.
Berman would perfectly fit the role of the frog in the parable of the Frog and the Scorpion.
Yes, but that terrorist on the billboard is also a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Why isn’t this administration sending airliners to al Qaeda to show our support for Manhattan?
Let us keep just a little of our own money to do with what we like, could you? Palestinians can (and do) speak for themselves. I doubt that Israelis appreciate being talked down to–literally–by a middleman, USAID (Us Smart Aleck Interdialoguing Delusionists).
We want the name, title and govt. agency that sponsored this nonsense. That kind deserves an “outing.”
happy: That would be USAID.
Is there anything left that we are not paying for?
OT but ABCNews is reporting that two Arab men were arrested on a flight from Chicago for “preparation for a terrorist attack”.
It goes without saying that this is another case of Tea Party Islamophobia. We all know that had they been Quakers or French Canadian Catholic nuns, they never would have been arrested.
Starve the Beast, for crying out loud! I am so sick and tired of paying for this crap without having any say in it. They DO NOT HAVE MY PERMISSION to spend money this way!
Saudis can afford to donate $ for a mosque at ground zero–why can’t they pay for ads for Hamas?
Perhaps a better use for the money would be to fund dancing lessons for the Palestinians, so the next time there is a major terrorist attack on American (a few thousand dead at least will be certain to delight them), the jackasses can exhibit some better moves than just jumping up and down a few inches with all the grace of doing a sobriety test.
Another WOT comment (this thread has run its course).
This is too tone-deaf to be funny. Today, Kathleen Sibelius called for “re-eduction” of the public on Obamacare.
Not only don’t these pinheads not understand that America has rejected a bill that those “educating” us never read, but they are now using the language of the most oppressive communist regimes in history.
Are we in store for re-education camps now? Will there be death panels there for lining people up against before firing squads? This has to be the dumbest administration ever.
What we have heah, is a failure to communicate.
You got to get your mind right.
Errah maybe if Hillary hosted one of those all you can drink cocktail parties that’s her state department is famous for they could get everyone onboard. Look for the champagne to start flowing again in Foggy Bottom now that the kiddies are back in school!
The average U.S. citizen cannot stop this kind of political pandering, because we do not hear of it until after the fact (Thank You MSM). But, we can bring a halt to the careers of the pandering politicals. VOTE
There may not be a more wretched mess of villainy in the whole world as the so-called “Palestinian” Authority. Our president is siding with folks whose stated goal (inevitably) is to destroy Israel, and to send all of its Jewish inhabitants into the sea, who broadcast children’s programs on television which teach that Jews are pigs and monkeys, and praise the murder of innocents.
We will not stand as we once did as a bulwark for freedom for much longer. We will not stand as a NATION for much longer–not so long as we play nice with murderers and stab our friends in the back.
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Fits right in with Comrade Obama’s (PBUH) other actions. Like giving Gaza’s HAMAS TERRORISTS $900 million for “humanitarian” purposes. Like buying AK-47′s, tons of rounds of ammo, lots of RPG’s, plastic explosives, etc.
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I guess the “humanitarian” aid label fits if you use the money to buy stuff to kill Jewish People.
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Watch your tax dollars in action!
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John Bibb
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I’m thoroughly convinced that Barack Obama’s idea of “peace” in the Middle East is equitable to removing every Jew from that region, and handing it all over to the so-called “Palestinians.” Of course the Muslims there would continue to butcher EACH OTHER (not to mention “kafir” scum like Christians or women not wearing burkas), but that sort of thing can be tolerated, so long as it’s kept in their own backyard (even if “their own back yards” are in cities like Oslo and Paris).
In another 50 or so years, “peace” will reign over all the earth, simply because the earth will be ruled by Islam. People will still be butchered, either because there will be some who refuse to submit to Islam, or there will always be Muslims who believe in killing their own, simply because they don’t follow Islam in the same way, but there won’t be any real opposition to this rule, and thus, there will be “peace.”
I know that Obama would have no problem with the notion of an Islamic world (even though he’s an “apostate” himself); however, he has a misguided notion (as do all hay-wired liberals) regarding what Islam would do to them. I mean, submission to these people isn’t simply bowing and telling them they’re in charge now. Submission means that they aren’t going to enjoy their potentate-like Hollywood lifestyle anymore, because that lifestyle will be banned in a Sharia law-run government.
Peace at any price has always been a tenet of the liberal, and if a few million Jews die for the sake of Middle East “peace,” then so be it. I mean, who are a few Million Jews when compared to lasting “peace” for the whole world? It’s just that they are blinded as to how this “peace” will effect the world, and for a huge majority of them, it will mean throwing their atheism, Darwinism, and Marxism on the trash-heap, and embracing the ravings of a deranged Arab “prophet.” Liberals are leading humanity on a course of mass suicide.