‘ISRAELI WAR CRIMES’ SIGNS TO GO ON METRO BUSES
30. Dec, 2010
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Israeli War Crimes,” the enormous advertisement reads. “Your tax dollars at work.”
UPDATE
When the local Zionist groups found out about the Ads, they met with Metro, and managed to convince them to cancel the ads. Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign is considering other options. Editor Intifada Palestine
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SEATTLE – “Israeli War Crimes,” the enormous advertisement reads. “Your tax dollars at work.”
To the right of the image is a group of children — one little boy stares out at the viewer, the others gawk at a demolished building, all rebar and crumbled concrete.
It’s an ad you’ll be seeing soon on a handful of Metro buses in downtown Seattle.
A group calling itself the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign has paid King County $1,794 so that 12 buses will carry that message around town, starting two days after Christmas. That’s December 27: the two-year anniversary of Israeli attacks on Gaza, aimed at stopping rocket attacks and weapons smuggling.
Ed Mast, a Seattle man who is a spokesperson for the group, says it’s not meant to be an anti-Israel message, but a message designed to generate discussion and awareness.
“I wouldn’t say it’s an anti-Israel message any more than any complaint about a country is anti-that country. We would like Israel to stop violating human rights. We would like Israel to give equal rights to its Palestinian citizens and its Palestinian subjects who live under occupation,” said Mast.
At the Pacific Northwest office of the Anti-Defamation League, the ad campaign is seen quite a bit differently.
“We’re dismayed,” says Community Director Hilary Bernstein, who calls the bus-born advertisement grotesquely one-sided. “Citizens young and old will be seeing this sort of propaganda, this very one-sided distortion. It’s unfortunate.”
So, is the side of a public bus the right place for this kind of attack? Are the issues that regularly inflame one of the most flammable hot-spots in the world appropriate fare for people strolling the sidewalks of Seattle?
As far as King County is concerned, it’s not really up to them what appears on the side of their buses, as long as it fits specific guidelines regarding:
• Pornography
• Alcohol
• Tobacco, and
• As long as the images and material used don’t interfere with public safety or insult specific groups to the point that a riot could be incited, vandalism could occur or public safety could be threatened.
King County Metro Transit spokesperson Linda Thielke acknowledges some people will be offended by the campaign, but that is not enough to prevent the rolling billboards from hitting the streets.
“As a government, we are mindful of the provisions in state and federal constitutions to protect freedom of speech. So, we can’t object these campaigns simply because they offend some people,” said Thielke.
The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign has targeted their advertising so that the buses carrying their message will run mostly on Seattle routes.
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EXCELLENT !!!!
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I heard they ‘caved’ to Israeli pressure groups and said no non-commercial ads so they could duck the free speech issues !
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pete Reply:
December 31st, 2010 at 12:32 pm
So if it has to be commercial, run a join the Free palestine movement. I wonder what they will come up with then.
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WOW, Some logical thought finally transpired? Lets see what transpires in the next couple of weeks. Notice the News hasn’t picked this story up, wonder why Mr. Murdock?
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GOOD FOR SEATTLE, I CANT BELIEVE THERE IS A CITY IN THE UNITED STATES OF ISRAEL WHO WOULD DARE PUT THIS UP. I AM FROM CHICAGO & I GUARANTEE YOU YOU WOULDN’T SEE THIS ON A C.T.A. BUS. WHEN TE FIRST GULF WAR ENDED 20 YRS AGO I WAS AT THE HOMECOMING PARADE SITTING RIGHT ACROSS FROM MAYOR DALEY. EVERY SECOND WORD OUT OF HIS MOUTH WAS THE UNITED STATES & ISRAEL & ALL THE OUTER COUNTIES,S .HE KEPT REPEATING IN EVERY SENTENCE. THERE WAS A FRENCH GENERAL ON THE PODIUM WITH HIM WHO AFTER NUMEROUS SENTENCES ABOUT ISRAEL BENT OVER & LOOKED AT DALEY AS IF TO SAY; WHAT IN THE FUCK DID ISRAEL DO?
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Hey ADL, How is that crow pie? EAT IT! Those signs should be on EVERY public form of transportation in EVERY city across America! What Israel has done to the people of Gaza, alone, would make Hitler blush in embarrassment.
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If the Israeli Nazis really don’t like being on billboards; they need to stop acting like Nazis.
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If the group that did 9-11 shows up and makes a mess again in Seattle over this, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Seattle,you sure can be a class act.
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I wrote to the council in support of the advertisement. I feel that it is tasteful and truthful. The picture is appropriately understated about the true horror of what transpired in Gaza.
I have received a reply saying that they have changed there mind and will not be running the advertisement.
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Funny how being called an anti-Semite has lost its sting and stigma. And irony also factors in given the fact that the vast majority of the worlds Jewry today are are not in fact Semitic. Given that fact, does this not mean that the European Jewry are in fact the anti-Semites? Apparently “Never again” actually means “Never again to US. Everyone else is fair game”.
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Its already been cancelled, the jewish lobby got it cancelled….
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Good for them, along with the bill board campaign with, “Where’s the Birth Certificate” going up on highways at least its a start to fight back in mainstream areas. Too much killing and not enough truth, this will make a difference.
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So, the Seattle Metro caved. What did you expect? The US is the biggest Zionist country in the world. The majority of its citizens are Zionist subhumans (that includes the Gentiles — there are many times more non-Jew Zionists than Jewish Zionists), having no sense of justice, much less decency or fairness. The only rational avenue of action for people with a conscience in the US is to undermine the sick, corrupted, morally vacuous body politic and the economy that supports it. You have to knock down and destroy the rotten edifice, there is no way to repair it. Fortunately, the US is self-destructing economically and socially. Let’s not resist the self-destruction processes, rather encourage those who facilitate them. At the very least, sit back and enjoy watching it crumble — my New Years’ resolution (again).
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The old saying stands true…TRUTH HURTS! And so many people in the states are not willing to face the facts. Israel is guilty of so many war crimes not JUST towards Gaza but towards all of Palestine. Those signs need to posted, need to be spread. All cities who believe in the rights of freedom and liberty (I’m sorry is that not what the US stands for?) need to spread the story of Palestine.
I’m American, I’ve been to Palestine, I’ve seen the wall, I’ve been through the checkpoints, I know what a holes the security and the IDF can be. It’s ridiculous and the fact that the world has let this go on for over 60 years is pathetic, embarrassing, and sad. VIVA PALESTTINA! May Palestine one day be free and may the US STOP FUNDING ISRAEL WITH OUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS!
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pete Reply:
January 4th, 2011 at 9:15 am
BRAVO ANATASIA, THE WORLD NEEDS MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU,UNFORTUNATLY OUR GOVERNMENT IS RUN BY ISRAELI WHORES. I AM SICK OF IT BUT DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. VOTE IN HONEST & CONSCIENTIOUS POLITICIANS?WHEN YOU CAN FIND ONE LET ME KNOW I WILL VOTE FOR HIM OR HER.
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Mike Reply:
January 4th, 2011 at 9:35 am
Stop paying your taxes by becoming a tax resister. I did the day the US invaded Iraq and haven’t looked back. I just don’t get it, why would anyone pay a bunch of dirty scoundrel dogs a percentage of their hard earned income. It’s no different than if you were to pay these crooks just so they’ll continue to really screw you good. I absolutely refuse to help finance and endorse genocide, state sanctioned assassination of it’s own citizens and wholesale slaughter of brown skinned people around the globe. You, as well as every American who doesn’t want to be an accomplice to murder and mayhem by the United States should quit funding the organized criminal syndicate who have hijacked DC and become a tax resister.
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Palestine and its people have been brutally suppress, decade after decade.
The use of slogans like semittic or jew is so distorted that when something that comes close to the truth, is atomaticly labeld as anti-semittic or a Jew-hating.
To anyone that has studied history, as I have, things is not always presented corectly.
The fact is that Askhenazi has nothing, mark my words, nothing in common whit what is labeled as Jews to day, except originally Jews in Palestine.
They are out numbered by Askhenazis from Central-Europa, but they(Askhenazi) originate from Caucasus, as a Finno-Urgic people.
A warrior clan.
A map over Palestine from 1799, the holy land, Palestine former Judea(nothing in common whit Jews):
http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/pal/html/eng/pal002368480.htm
To the isue what is Israel today.:
http://www.sunray22b.net/ashkenazi_jews_are_khazars.htm
They are perverting Wikipedia whit false claims of Jewish ancestry, and that goes for DNA connection to original Palestinian Jews.
King Abdallah I on Zionism:
http://www.sunray22b.net/king_abdullah_i_on_zionism.htm
And some more, on the fact that facts are facts, if you cant handle it, dos not alter the facts, by Benjamin H. Freedman.
http://www.biblestudysite.com/factsarefacts.htm
All this is not widely known, but its there, you just have to open your eyes.
“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
free Palestina
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