Spain denies it
On Wednesday, I reported that the Spanish government had sponsored an advertisement on 'Palestinian Authority' television calling for boycotting Israel. Spain is now denying they sponsored the ad.A "public service" advertisement on Palestinian television calling for the boycott of Israeli goods is not being paid for by Spanish tax payers' euros, Spanish ambassador Alvar Iranzo told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday.Hmmm.
Iranzo was responding to a video posted Tuesday by the Palestinian Media Watch showing the advertisement that has run for the last week on PA TV, which at the ends shows that it was sponsored by the Spanish government, the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, AECID (Spanish governmental humanitarian aid development), ACSUR (a Spanish non-profit organization), and the Canaan Joint Development Project for Jerusalem (Palestine.) Iranzo said the Spanish Foreign Ministry and its aid arm, AECID, both denied financing the advertisement, and that the NGO listed as a sponsor sent a letter to the foreign ministry saying they have no direct responsibility for the video.
"We are the victims of this fraud," he said.
Iranzo said he had not yet contacted the PA TV to determine how this happened, but that the Spanish consul-general in Jerusalem will follow up on the matter. Iranzo said his first priority was to check with Madrid and find out if there was any Spanish involvement.
The Spanish envoy said the government was intent on seeing who was responsible for the advertisement and misuse of his government's logo.
"The substance of the advertisement is in frontal opposition to the government's opposition to any boycott of Israeli goods, much less a blanket boycott like the one insinuated in the video," he said.
Labels: boycott Israel, Palestinian Authority Television, Spain
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:28 AM
2 Comments:
Looks like Spain is running scared?
It would not be the first time the "Palestinians" lied like this. I once saw a poster that vilified Israel & was for a purported charity that was, naturally, a terrorist front (obviously so), that had a UN organization logo on it. I wrote directly to the UN & was told that that organization had no clue as to what had happened & did not authorize it. While I distrust the UN as much as I do other terrorist supporters, this story falls within the realm of possibility, if only because it sounds exactly the same.
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