"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."
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
(NEWS) Pro-Palestinian Ad Campaign In Israel Paid For By USAID
Your US tax dollars are at work again. USAID, an agency of the US Federal government, is spending $250,000 on outdoor billboards designed to convince Israelis that we have a 'peace partner' and that Palestinians are 'our friends'... But of course they're not sponsoring any that send the same message to the 'Palestinians.'
