Abu Bluff and Fayyad don't want to be 'peace partners'
'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President According to Israeli daily Haaretz, the two Palestinian Authority officials asked the Geneva Initiative made the request through intermediaries to remove their pictures from the Partner in Peace campaign for failing to secure their consent to use their likeness.Some of you may recall that those clips are being paid for by the American taxpayer via USAID.
The Geneva Initiative, which has branches in Tel Aviv and Ramallah, launched a joint project at the start of September, with TV and internet advertisements featuring members of the PLO negotiations team asking Israeli viewers if they will be a "peace partner."
The videos begin with a line of head shots of each of the negotiations team members, apparently implying their endorsement of the project.
Director of the Israeli branch Gadi Baltiansky explained that the ad campaign "aims to counter the myth that there is no partner on the Palestinian side. Director-General of the Palestinian Geneva Initiative Nidal Foqaha told Ma'an that there was no equivalent Palestinian version because "Our leadership is already convinced; the plan in Israel is to create a consensus with the public and then mobilize the leadership and create a real peace partner."
The clips stirred controversy among Palestinians, and hundreds rallied in Ramallah on Wednesday protesting peace talks they said were not representative of the Palestinian public because they lacked terms, references and guarantees that Israel would stick to its promises.
Hmmm. Maybe they just don't want peace.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:01 AM
2 Comments:
I wonder if the number of threats goes up when their identity shows up as "collaborating"...
If they don't want to address Israelis, then they are not really "peace partners." But we've known that for some time already now.
The "peace process" is dead.
Deal with it!
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