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The "Dangerous" Pro-Palestine Subway Ad Dov Hikind Doesn't Want You To See

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Are the children and ultra-conservative Israel lobbyists out of the room? Good, because we don't want to scare/offend anyone with this advertisement, which was put up in subways earlier this month. The campaign, paid for by a coalition of pro-Palestinian groups, calls for an
 end
 to
 U.S.
 military
 aid
 to
 Israel. This message, according to local Assemblyman Dov Hikind, is "very, very dangerous."

Hikind, who you'll recall was equally outraged when the MTA permitted anti-Islam ads hates pedestrian islands, tells CBS 2, "This is a one-sided mean-spirited attempt to undermine the security and well being of the people of Israel. They say this is for peace. This is not for peace. This is for war." In case you're unclear on how exactly cutting military spending is mean and pro-war, CBS 2 turned to commuters for insightful analysis. "It says be on our side, so it’s like who’s side are we on?” wonders New Yorker Kayla Sanders.

The campaign, which has already run in six major U.S. cities, features ads in 18 subway stations through October 3rd. A mean-spirited spokesperson for one of the groups sponsoring the campaign dangerously explains, "Instead of funding Israel’s unlawful occupation, I would like to see the thirty billion dollars that our government has committed to the State of Israel over the next ten years be redirected to Americans right here at home to help with job creation, increased funding for education, affordable housing investment, environmental conservation, and upgrading our national transportation infrastructure."

Asked about the campaign, MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said, "We have specific guidelines for advertising. It cannot promote anything illegal, be obscene or imply the MTA’s endorsement. This campaign adhered to the guidelines." Well, two can play at that game. Hikind tells CBS 2 he's working on a series of response ads "reminding the U.S. to remember its friends and keep supporting them." The likely slogan? Our Side Is Way Sexier.

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By John Del Signore in on September 15, 2011 12:16 PM

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  • P
    10 MAIN POINTS IN ARAB - ISRAEL CONFLICT
    ARAB IMMIGRATION
    The so-called "Palestinians" are mostly (children or grandchildren) of Arab immigration into Israel/Palestine (historic land of the Jews). Mainly, between the 1800s-1939.[1]
    AIM
    Arab Muslim "Palestinians" (as polls show)[2] & Hezbollah[3], like the Arab leaders [4] in the 1948 [5] and 1967 [6] wars, seek its total destruction and advocate the genocide of Jews. (Those that cover for Arabists/Islamists genocidal campaign, somehow often phrase their argument using the "peace" slogan, for some reason).When not able (yet) to carry out their ultimate goal. Ethnic cleansing (worse than mere apartheid) is "at least" what they demand in a so-called "Palestine State" vision. As in: June 1, 1967 by Ahmad Shukairy [7]; in Cairo on July 28, 2010 [8] & in Doha on May 28 2011 [9] by Mahmoud Abbas and in Washington D.C. on Sep. 13, 2011 by PLO's ambassador Maen Areikat.[10] Not to mention Jordan [11] / Palestinian Authority's official apartheid [12] laws prohibiting sellling land to Jews - punishable by death).
    PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT
    Simply said. Israel has absolutely nothing against non-Terrorist, non-attackers Arabs/Muslims. In fact, Arabs, Muslims are (not only equal[13] and have reached high positions in Israeli society, but) even often treated with preferential treatment[14] in Israel system.
    "CIVILIANS?"
    Any time you hear about "Palestinian civilians" being hurt. Remember who is behind it, who -so cruelly- uses them to tarnish Israel's image.[15] (Besides, simply manipulating numbers.[16] The same goes to Hezbollah,[17] Taliban or al-Qaeda's tactics against the West).
    DAVID VS GOLIATH
    The one that hesitates and is in conflict of acting when seeing human shields is the underdog, small "David" against the "Goliath"[18] that exploits Israel's humane character to hit at its non-combatants civilians from among / or behind its own non-combatants. (Unfortunately the skewed image of who is the real powerful, causes confusion and anti-Israel bias, so rampant in the media).
    ISRAEL'S GOODWILL
    Every goodwill sacrifice by Israel, including land-giving (to the 'Palestinians" who never actually "owned" or had any sovereignty in the area. So much for the "occupation" myth). Were/are interpreted as "weakness."(The Gaza example is typical. Where Israel gave it away to the Arabs in 2005.[19] The 'response' was increased violence, rise of Islamic-terrorist Hamas' popularity in Gaza's mainstream[20]).
    BEGINNING: 1920'S - MUFTI - "CREATOR" OF THE CONFLICT
    Arab-Islamic racist and jihad campaign against Jews in the area dates back at least to the 1920s. Led by the Arab-Islamic anti-Jewish arch-bigot the Mufti, al-Husseini.[21] Such as the 1929 brutal massacre[22] (of non-Zionist Jews[23]), mass rape, mutilation of babies, and castration of old people[24] in Hebron. He who later on made a pact with A. Hitler[25] (despite Nazis' utter contempt for the Arab "race"[26]) and led the Muslim SS divisions to commit crimes against humanity upon Christians and Jews in the Baltic.[27] He intervened against rescuing Jewish children from E. Europe - thereby causing their mass deaths.[28] He was also behind the incitement of the 1941 Farhud pogrom in Iraq.[29] The Mufti called for a Jihad against: Britain, United States, the West and the Jews.[30] His ally, Jamal Husseini very active in Arab leadership and in the Arab Nazi cooperation, founded a Hitler-Youth type of young Arabs (Arab Nazi Party).[31]The 'founding' of the conflict that early on, tells also about the true motivation of it all: bigotry.[32]
    AHMAD SHUKAIRY
    The demonization of Israel in international arena, began in the early 1960s[33] by the aide and henchman[34] of the Nazi Mufti, Ahmad Shukairy, who, in 1962 praised[35] and identified himself with Nazi groups[36] and in June 1967 called for a "holy war" jihad[37] against Israel and to "Throw the Jews into the sea." He was the first PLO chairman. Worth mentioning, while in 1957 he recognized that "Palestine" is but a part of Southern Syria,[38] he changed 360 degrees in 1963 to go along the invention of a separate 'Palestinian entity.'[39] Yet, still, PLO's original document shows the "fight" -1964- was for the sake of pan-Arabism.[40]He was also -in 1961- the first to come up[41] with that bigoted "apartheid slur."[42] A tactic with 3 goals in mind: 1. Diversion from rampant Arab Islamic apartheid and racism on all minorities,[43] (including Islamic "Palestinian" anti-Christian persecution and Arab nations' anti-Arab-Palestinian policies ever since they have been told by their leaders to evacuate the area in 1948. And the Arab racist expulsion of nearly a Million Jewish refugees in the 1940s-1950s), oppression and crimes against its own people, 2. Hatred of the non-Arab, non-Muslim group, the Jews. 3. Rationalization of the genocide campaign).
    PALLYWOOD
    You can never trust what comes out from an Arab "Palestinian" (or Hezbollah) source. After so many years and experiences of intentional lies, disinformation and even falsified images (including 'Muhammad al-Dura,' Jenin, Gaza beach family, etc.).[44]
    CONTINUOUS JEWISH PRESENT
    Not only did Jews reside (in the area) centuries before the Arab invasion, but Jews never ceased completely from having a presence in Israel - Palestine.[45]
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    Notes:
    [1] http://www.israelnationalnews...., http://www.mythsandfacts.com/c..., http://books.google.com/books?..., http://www.ynetnews.com/articl...
    [2] http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/ins..., http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy..., http://frontpagemag.com/2011/0...
    [3] http://books.google.com/books?..., http://books.google.com/books?..., http://archive.frontpagemag.co...
    [4] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [5] http://www.palestinefacts.org/...
    [6] http://books.google.com/books?..., http://www.sixdaywar.org/conte..., http://books.google.com/books?...
    [7] http://sixdaywar.org/content/t...
    [8] http://www.ynetnews.com/articl...
    [9] http://www.frumforum.com/abbas...
    [10] http://www.usatoday.com/news/w...
    [11] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [12] http://www.afsi.org/MEDIA/news...
    [13] http://www.jewishvirtuallibrar...
    [14] http://www.standwithus.org/HOT..., http://www.sazionism.co.za/ind..., http://haaretz.com/hasen/spage..., http://www.sikkuy.org.il/engli..., http://www.israpundit.com/arch..., http://www.freeman.org/m_onlin..., http://www.worldjewishnewsagen..., http://www.israelnationalnews...., http://www.dafka.org/news/inde...
    [15] http://books.google.com/books?..., http://books.google.com/books?..., http://books.google.com/books?..., http://www.ynetnews.com/articl..., http://www.israelnationalnews...., http://www.usatoday.com/commun..., http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=588..., http://articles.cnn.com/2009-0..., http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01..., http://www.cjnews.com/index.ph..., http://replay.waybackmachine.o..., http://books.google.com/books?..., http://www.terrorism-info.org...., http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Ar... , http://www.haaretz.com/news/is...
    [16] http://www.theblaze.com/storie...
    [17] http://books.google.com/books?..., http://www.canada.com/national..., http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ne..., http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...
    [18] http://www.jewishvirtuallibrar...
    [19] http://books.google.com/books?..., http://books.google.com/books?...
    [20] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [21] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [22] http://books.google.com/books?..., http://books.google.com/books?...
    [23] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [24] http://online.wsj.com/article/...
    [25] http://books.google.com/books?..., http://books.google.com/books?...
    [26] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [27] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [28] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [29] http://books.google.com/books?..., http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~j...
    [30] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [31] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [32] http://online.wsj.com/article/...
    [33] http://www.policyarchive.org/h...
    [34] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [35] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [36] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [37] http://news.google.com/newspap..., http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04...
    [38] http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp507.h...
    [39] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [40] http://www.jewishvirtuallibrar...
    [41] http://books.google.com/books?...
    [42] http://www.cjnews.com/index.ph..., http://www.africancrisis.co.za..., http://honestreporting.com/deb..., http://www.camera.org/index.as..., http://www.jewpi.com/black-stu..., http://www.ifcj.org/site/News2..., http://www.jpost.com/Internati..., http://mail.worldjewishcongres..., http://www.israelnationalnews...., http://www.israelnationalnews...., http://www.protectourheritagep..., http://www.wbez.org/episode-se..., http://osh-net-226-131.onshore..., http://books.google.com/books?..., http://www.jewishexponent.com/..., http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/..., http://spme.net/cgi-bin/articl..., http://www.israel-academia-mon..., http://www.israpundit.com/2008..., http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G...
    [43] http://www.hudson-ny.org/2019/..., http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/C...
    [44] http://www.seconddraft.org, http://www.theaugeanstables.co..., http://www.takeapen.org/Takeap...
    [45] http://books.google.com/books?..., http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~p...
  • Do not agree with it, but I also do not believe that the MTA should be involved in censorship unless it involves indecency or obscenity or other objective ideas. (The ACLU in Washington is appealing a decision by King County (WA) Metro to ban pro-Palestine ads from their buses...a decision that, because it's in the 9th Circuit, could potentially reach the Supreme Court.)
  • 69GeorgeWBush69
    Nuke Israel and Palestine
  • sasboy
    If Dov Hikind is so fond of Israel, why does'nt he move there ?
  • Like the gentleman said from WESPAC, have the COuncil member explain why...
  • ed_Ex2
    Funny thing about the West Bank, it was Jordanian. Israel should give it back to Jordan. Oh wait, that's right, the Jordanian Arabs hate the Palestinians more than the Israeli Jews.
  • Mr Mel
    It was never Jordan's. It was supposed to be part of the Palestine State that never occurred.
  • CE
    To nattyb:

    Typical attack of a feeble mind who can't debate nor refute the facts.
  • CE
    Read about the USS Stark. Then read this:

    In 1948 a young reporter named Robert F. Kennedy wrote about the 500,000+ Arab immigrants who came to Palestine in search of work. Between 1922-1947 the non-Jewish population (Arabs) increased by 588,000 due to immigration (a 120 percent increase.) Why are these Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian, Jordanian and Iraqi Arabs considered "Palestinians" today?
  • mrnvr
    Probably for the same reasons the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews consider themselves Israeli... no?
  • CE
    Wrong answer.  Most Arabs who call themselves Palestinians do so because the U.N. allows them to.  An Arab only had to live in modern-day Israel from 1946-1948 to be declared a Palestinian. This is akin to a migrant worker moving to the United States, living in Los Angeles for 2 years, being deported and then calling himself an American!

    It is a little known
    fact that many of the so-called 1948 refugees weren't actually born in
    Palestine.

    The United Nations definition of "Palestinian refugee" is as
    follows: "Palestine refugees are persons whose normal place of residence
    was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost their homes and
    means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict" This
    definition of a refugee also covers " the descendants of persons who
    became refugees in 1948."
  • mrnvr
    I just find it funny tho... I mean.. any person of documented Jewish decent can gain Israeli citizenship... and you're calling out the Palestinians?
  • CE
    Ahhh, another lie from mrnvr. And some bad spelling too.  It's descent. Not "decent".  Too funny!
    Muslims can and do become Israeli citizens.
     Israel does not give citizenship to anyone of "Jewish descent"

    Known criminals are not given automatic citizenship.

    Here are some ways to lose citizenship. From Wikipedia (not the best source, but accurate in this case):

    If the person entered a state which is considered an enemy state or if he got a citizenship at the enemy state.If the person committed an act which is considered a breach of loyalty to the country.If the person's citizenship was given to him/her on the basis of
    false information. In such a case, the revocation might apply even to
    the citizenship of the person's children.
  • mrnvr
    I also like how you said "another lie" even tho:

    a) I never lied about the USS Liberty (and you misquoted me)

    b) I was wrong on the basis of semantics about Israeli citizenship. 

    And when you say I am a liar that must mean any of the facts I've previously presented on Israel must be a lie as well.. ahhh I see what you did there.
  • CE
    So I mixed-up your comment with the one above. John Bows lied when he claimed 200 Americans were killed on the Liberty. 

    How about if I say you were mistaken when you claimed that it was the only maritime incident not investigated by U.S. Congress (your lifted quote straight from Wikipedia, along with your others)
  • mrnvr
    Yeah... I did lift it thus the "quotation" but w/e. 

    Please enlighten me...

    http://wrmea.net/component/con...
  • CE
    More on the WRMEA when they backed a convicted terrorist:

    http://www.nationalreview.com/...
  • CE
    wrmea? I won't click on that trash.  They've been irrelevant for at least 10 years. Now you're grasping for straws. That's almost as bad as posting a link for the 9/11 truthers site.

    "The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is
    a slick, very well edited monthly publication that promotes the purposes of the Arab countries, of the Muslims and particularly of the Palestinians. In so doing, of course, they denigrate the state of Israel
    and Jews in general. One of the recurring themes in the magazine is the affair of the USS LIBERTY, which in the opening days of the Six-Day War was attacked by Israel. The attack caused heavy damage to the ship and over thirty fatal casualties."

    http://www.factsandlogic.org/l...
  • mrnvr
    WEMEA or FLAME...

    Pro Arab or Pro Israeli organizations. Injustice is all in the eye of the beholder. 

    How about we agree to disagree?

    As a US citizen my view on limiting federal financial and military aid to foreign nations, Israel being one of them, stands... I think the truth about all of this is somewhere in the middle.

    And I also don't think it's fair for you to misquote sources, blatantly label people with adequate sources liars and accuse anybody of "bashing joos" because they present an adverse view point.

    I nvr insulted you, your opinions or your spelling.


    *** Edited 45 seconds later: Ooops... I guess when I called you all emotional about your Israeli argument I did insult you sorry. Tho I think there is some truth to that... it also makes you right I'm a liar... we both WIN!
  • mrnvr
    I mean rlly... doesn't almost every sort of article represent a skewed view of facts that props up one side of an argument?

    Re: Wikipedia

    http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038...
  • CE
    Yes, but some more than others.

    Wikipedia often deletes accurate information ans has more errors than most. You never know when someone might go and change something to benefit their viewpoint. This is especially true with the Arab-Israeli conflict.

     I'm surprised they haven't removed the article about the convicted terrorist who was on the Turkish flotilla, Erdinc Tekir.  They did remove names of some others with active ties to terror groups who were on board.  Israel was right when they said there were terrorists on the ship.  The majority of the passengers were civilians though.
  • mrnvr
    Yep you got me... i misspelled descent. Is this gawker?

    Thanks for correcting that and clearing up my misconceptions about Israeli citizenship... it really doesn't address your problem with Palestinians being called Palestinian or your undying defense of Israel but you made your point. 

    That point being I can't spell.
  • mrnvr
    You should calm down.. this can't be good for your health.
  • CE
    1) Why was the PLO founded & headed by Egyptians in 1964?

    2) Between 1922-1946, over 500,000 Arabs from bordering nations immigrated into modern day Israel. Why are these Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian, Jordanian and Iraqi Arabs called "Palestinians" today?

    3) Name two "Palestinian" leaders prior to Arafat.

    4) When was Arab Palestine founded? What were the names of the founding fathers?

    5) If occupation was the root of the Arab-Israel conflict.... Why did Arab (palestinian) terrorism begin in the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, 1950's and early 1960's prior to "occupation"?

    6) Why did Palestinian Arabs collaborate with Nazis in the 1930's through WW2 and become directly involved in the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust?
  • zombiebob
    You are a typical pro-zionist lying scum bag. You think that by authoritatively stating lies, others will assume they are facts. You are sleaze.
  • CE
    You are a typical bigoted lying scum bag. You think that by
    authoritatively stating lies, and 9/11 conspiracy theories others will assume they are facts. You are
    sleaze and a moonbat.
  • mrnvr
    1) The PLO was founded IN Egypt at the 1964 Arab League Summit to eliminate zionism within the boundaries of the "British Mandate for Palestine". It was formed by the Palestinian Fedayeen with assistance from a dozen Arab nations... not BY Egypt. 

    2)  Fact check! According to Wikipedia: "367,845 Jews and 33,304 non-Jews immigrated legally between 1920 and 1945." That makes well over 1/2 of your Arabs actually Jews...! 

    4) It was never an Arab Palestine. It was established by the "British Mandate for Palestine" passed in 1922 by the league of nations after WWI. The British however did specifically set asside 23% of the land as a "Jewish Homeland"... however no "Arab Homeland" was created. 

    5) Conflicts began to arise as the Jewish Population from 1920 to 1945 went from 1/6th to 1/3 of the nation. The Arabs felt they were being pushed out and over run by the Jews who were already given their own land by the British. 

    6) It wasn't the "Palestinian Arabs" it was Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini and a select group of people. Saying it's was all Palestinian Arabs is like saying all Germans were Nazis. 

    That was clever tho... you really made your defense of Israel sound much more intelligent than it actually was. 

    I even learned something in the process... thanks.
  • CE
    The PLO was created before "occupation" in Egypt and led by men born in Egypt. It just happened to take place at an Arab League meeting. Jordan was agaisnt them, so I wouldn't call it a pan-Arab group.

    Between 1922-1947 the non-Jewish population (Arabs) increased by 588,000 due to immigration (a 120 percent increase.)
    Robert F. Kennedy wrote about this. Here's what RFK wrote in 1948, "the fact that over 500,000 Arabs in the 12 years between 1932 and 1944, came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the Near and Middle East where an Arab middle class is in
    existence."  It is well known that Arabs from surrounding nations/lands flooded modern-day Israel when they found out about jobs & a better quality of life.

    3) & 4) are related.  You can't name Palestinian Arab leaders prior to Arafat because they never existed. The same with a Palestinian Arab nation. The anti-Israel crowd wants you to believe they did exist, but no answers can be provided by them when the question is posed. No Arab homeland was created because they rejected it... 4 times. 1937 was the first time. 

    5) Conflicts actually arose long before the 1920's.  Read about what happened to John Steinbeck's grandfather in the 1800's.  He wasn't even Jewish. 
    Even the Grand Mufti admitted that Jews didn’t steal land. Which is something these anti-Israel groups claim today. (Page 242 of the Palestine Royal Commission Report) Read
    the Peel Commission Report of 1937 too.  You'll learn a lot.

    6) Husseini was a Palestinian Arab and so were several of his collaborators. (I never said all Palestinian Arabs) They were directly involved in horrific crimes during the Holocaust. Their collaboration began in the 1930's.  In 1944 some Arabs and Germans parachuted into an area near Tel Aviv attempting to poison the water supply with arsenic and attempt to massacre 25,000 civilians. It was called Operation Atlas. They failed in their mission.

    Didn't mean to mix you up with John Bows, but I'm glad you did some reading.
  • CE
    Response to sulayman:
    Did I mention Saddam's evilness?  No.  Thanks for obfuscating the discussion by changing the subject!
  • I agree that we should not be sending billions we don't have overseas. Let's cut off all foreign aid entirely. I hope you agree that both the Israelis and the Palestinians have the right to their own country. But anyone who thinks they are going to all join hands and form some kind of single state for both Israelis and Palestinians is dreaming; it's not going to happen.
  • sketto
    Probably not. But there are some options that involve mutual interest. By comparison, Northern Ireland's history also includes stolen land and generations of religious hatred, but has now seen a full generation raised that has not personally witnessed the widespread violence which had permeated the country for decades.
  • No statehood for the so called Palestinians. Not now...not ever.
  • Wow that was well thought out, rational, logical and not from a place of bigotry none whatsoever... Please go back to cyclist threads, where you can be as childishly obtuse as possible.  Adults here are actually having a reasonable dialogue.
  • Nothing about making a palestinian state is reasonable dialogue. The palestinians have refused land (a state) every time it has been offered to them. After negotiations, they just ramp up the intifada and send more rockets into Sderot. They have opposed statehood at every turn. When the p's stop rocketing towns in Israel, maybe then someone will take them seriously. Until then the palestinians are their own worst enemy.
  • melanie77
    ban jews from public office period. they are nothing more than a self serving cult.
  • Bambissima
    I love this ad and I am familiar with it because I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where these ads started appearing several months ago.  I am confused by one thing, however:  Why does the author of this article characterize the coaltion that is sponsoring this ad as "pro-Palestinian"?  How is a "Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine" "pro-Palestinian"?  Is being "pro" something mean you are "against" something?  Perhaps someone can explain this to me.
  • sketto
    Let me explain. In America, on the question of Israel, according to those you'll hear from most, you're not allowed to be rational. You're only allowed to have one of two positions:

    Support Israel. (Note: you'll be labeled a racist, genocidal oppressor.)
    Support Palestine. (Note: you'll be labeled an anti-Semite who is against Israel's right to exist.)

    Those are your options. Choose wisely!
  • Bambissima
    Thank you, Sketto.  It's all become clear now, thanks to you.  LOL!!
  • Similoluwa Ojurongbe
    This stream is very interesting. I have mixed feelings about this ad, because the United States is continuing to support a country that has performed many human rights violations as well as ignored the United Nations by continuing  to spread their boundaries further into Palestine. Neither  Palestine nor Israel have behaved particularly well in this situation.I think that the US should stop choosing sides and should come up with a solution for the both of them. If large amounts of money should be sent in the direction of that conflict it should not be in support of a military, it should be in support of organization of Palestine, and some form of an agreement to come into place between the two sides. Unfortunately with the state that Palestine is currently in they need to bring their people together and change their mentality. So that violence is no longer the means at which they attempt to regain their country. But at the same time, it is hard enough to retrain a populations mindset, without the added factor of sharing borders with a country as militarily powerful as Israel. Israel is no longer the a young country who needs help. They are no longer weak. It's time for the US to understand that, and divert funds towards helping everyone. If there are going to be funds sent there at all.
  • Similoluwa, your stream i most interesting also. I usually do not associate with individuals with more vowels in their names than consonants, so I am gratified to see you are not vowel heavy.While Israel is , as you say, militarily powerful, this is due to Israel fighting off aggressors during '67 and '73.Miitary power of Israel came from kicking asses of those who tried to wipe them off the face of the earth.  For Israel enemies, strength sometimes mean you are not extinct. You understand my joke? I make joke.
  • Uri Strauss
    Hikind is a criminal, and probably a war criminal. He's deeply involved with the criminal (but tax-exempt) organization American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, a racial supremacist group based in New York whose purpose is to "reclaim" Jerusalem, in the sense of ethnically cleansing it of non-Jewish inhabitants. Their activities aid and abet Israel's criminal occupation, giving rise to accomplice liability on the part of the organization and its activists, like Mr. Hikind. Israel's occupation of Palestine, including East Jerusalem, is likely a war crime under both the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. War Crimes Act of 1996, which provides for criminal punishment including imprisonment for people like Mr. Hikind.
  • CE
    East Jerusalem is a myth.  It was invented after 1948 by Jordanian occupiers.  "East" Jerusalem did not even exist in the 1930's!  Here's some proof to ponder over.


    Videos showing aerial recon photos:
    (The area to the right of the Western Wall is "East" Jerusalem)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
  • robindustry
    Thanks for running this. I just went to the twopeoplesonefuture.org website, sent letters to all my elected officials, and donated money.
  • CE
    You're a useful idiot. A fool and his/her money are soon parted. Your money is going into administrative costs and bigots who are openly against Israel!
  • mrnvr
    I like you calling names and coming with the ad homs on here yet YOUR facts are very questionable... nice!
  • Can we just talk about how bad of an ad it is? Forget the message, the ad quality is on par with a CUNY college ad or Dr Zizmor. Yeesh, they'll never get independence with such a shitty ad agency.
  • All these Anti-Iran billboards posted in NYC and when there's a small subway ad, Mr. Hikind throws a fit? He's been embarrassing himself for well over a decade with his rhetoric, when is he gonna move on?
  • CE
    Even Iranians here in America are against Ahmadinejad while still supporting their homeland.
  • UrbanGrilling
    ahmadinejad.
  • Peanut_Butter
    I'm a dinner jacket.
  • While the politicos argue about how much of grandmas social security cut, Cantor was trying to have aid to Israel added to the US military budget...some other Republican said 'over my dead body' when someone mentioned cutting aid to America.

    this should incise people.  Nevermind that support for Israel motiviated the 9/11 attackers, nevermind that Iraq was a war fought to protect Israel, this basic common sense.  The US should look out for Americans not Israelis.

    mondoweiss dot net
  • CE
    If support for Israel "motivated the 9/11 attackers" as you claim, why weren't Israeli sites in the USA attacked?  Why did Al-Qeda mention Israel in fewer than 10% of their speeches, memos, broadcasts prior to 9/11?

    Israel actually warned us NOT to invade Iraq.  You wouldn't know that though. Typical of someone getting their news from an anti-Israel hate site mondoweiss.

    Israel Warned US Not to Invade Iraq after 9/11:

    http://www.commondreams.org/ar...

    http://www.reddit.com/r/conspi...
  • Israel warned against invading Iraq? Not at all, Bush cited Israeli intelligence as part of his WMD claims. PM Ariel Sharon said Saddam was a threat, and when finished with him, go hit Iran next.

    It's funny you're so against Mondoweiss, you can't stand fellow Jews who have issues with certain Israel policies and parties, and label the whole thing anti-Israel? If I have a problem with the Tea Party, do I hate America? That's your logic.
  • CE
    Show me a source for that wild claim. You're only half wrong.
    "The warning against an invasion of Iraq was
    "pervasive" in Israeli communications with the administration, Lawrence Wilkerson
    recalls. It was conveyed to the administration by a wide range of
    Israeli sources, including political figures, intelligence and private
    citizens.

    "  Stop blaming Israel for America's invasion of Iraq. On another note, Cheney wanted to go into Syria when they were building a nuclear reactor.  Bush said no, Israel ended up bombing it to smithereens.  Nobody doubted them.  Our newspapers barely mentioned the operation since it went so smoothly.

    If you use mondoweiss in your argument you only make an intellectual laugh out loud.  The founder of mondoweiss has published so many inaccurate and false statements over the years that they have become entirely irrelevant
  • UrbanGrilling
    HA! there are no words to describe how misguided you and your blog are
  • troll go back to israel you are not a true american. You number 1 concern is Israel. Just like some of the scum we currently have embedded in our govt.
  • MrWorms
    That wasn't actually a good or useful response.
  • What other country would allow a foreign parliamentarian to come in and insult its own head of state before its legislature, as the legislature applauds and cheers?

    We need to cut the cord. Israel should now prove that it can remain viable without Western interference.
  • Peanut_Butter
    Someone tell Dov to hike up his thong and do some substantive work.
  • Peanut_Butter
    Sensible ad.  Promotes a position.  I see nothing wrong with it.
  • EricKosten
    Blah blah blah some Jew is angry that anyone dare question Israel's status quo. What's new?

    I am, however, glad to see that an elected representative is spending time and money making "response ads" as opposed to, you know, his job.
  • Dov Hikind only cares about the "religious" fanatics in his district.
  • UrbanGrilling
    Im not Jewish ya dingus
  • Leave it to a couple of Jews and Arabs to argue over which dictionary to use. you guys crack me up!
  • What ever happened to unbiased reporting anyway? I guess that is too much to ask from a news source that cannot even apply spell checking to their stories.
  • You want unbiased reportage watch Fox News.

    Oh wait.......... Never mind.
  • the vast majority of the aid is used to buy back US goods that create jobs and economic return here in the US. The remainder has most-likely generated a reasonable return, as opposed to the seemingly ignore billions that go to other countries in the area. As for the billions handed to palestinians over the years, well..... lets just say they are a little bit harder to track down..... as for the MTA, I say let them take any ad, as long as my metrocard doesnt keep going up.  p.s. "Apartheid" get a life, take a trip over there and see what "apartheid" looks like and then get back to me
  • Guest
    Hi Warren!  I *have* taken a trip over there, to the West Bank, and have seen what that apartheid is like.  It *is* apartheid and it is a dreadful situation for people who must spend their whole lives in it.

    Sorry if that bursts your bubble.
  • CE
    Arab apartheid / Muslim apartheid are the largest 'apartheid systems', that exist today.
    Virtually all non-Arabs and/or non-Muslims are second class citizens.

    Among minorities that feel the wrath of the bigoted Arab-Muslim world are:

    * Berbers (native N. Africans, before Arab invasion).

    * Copts (indigenous Egyptians suffer from both: Arab racism and Islamic bigotry).

    * Kurds. Examples include: [Saddam's] Iraq and Syria.

    * Blacks, in Arab lands or in Arab ruled Africa like the genocide in the Sudan and slavery in both Sudan and in Mauritania.

    * Asians, particularly in the Gulf Arab states. [Sex slaves or "plain" slaves).

    *
    Maronites-Christians [Native Lebanese] suffer from both Arab ethnic
    racism and religious bigotry, like the massacres in the 1970s by local
    Muslims and by Palestinian/Syrian forces.

    * Assyrians, are/have been persecuted both racially and religiously. Still very much marginalized in Iraq, for example.

    *
    Iran is not an Arab country but racism is huge against Kurds, Jews,
    Turkmens, etc. So is anti-non-Muslim bigotry against Christians, Bahai,
    Zoroastrians and other in the Islamic republic.

    * Turkey is also a
    Muslim non-Arab country and Kurds, Greeks, Armenians and other
    ethnicities have been through much suffering, genocide. Still there's
    great wide racism against non-Turkish ethnic groups. Turkey's policy in
    Cyprus has also been recognized as a real Apartheid by many. All
    non-Muslims are automatically branded as "foreigners" at the "moderate"
    Islamic supremacy of Turkey.

    * All non-Msulims in 'Islamic Apartheid state' of S. Arabia.

    * Al-Akhdam in Yemen.
  • Ah, so two wrongs make a right? If Arab dictatorships can oppress minorities, Israel can do it too? I never understood the "not as evil as Saddam" mantra, so you admit Israel is doing some evil?
  • angry_pickle
    These "US goods" that you speak of ... you forgot to mention they are military equipment!
  • Military equipment that magically gets resold on the black market and winds up in the hands of Israeli gangsters as well as some Palestinian groups.  Ever wonder why you see M16's along with AK 47's in some photos, these groups are not buying them from the U.S.  Israel never actually explains how Palestinians wind up with grenade and rocket launchers with manufacturing labels that read made in the United States.
  • It is terrible that Israeli's try to protect themselves from their peace loving neighbors who only want to hurl rockets at their kids any chance they get :o)
  • pendejito
    Yeah give them back their stolen land, and see how many rockets continue to land on Israel.
  • Mr Mel
    Then their rockets will land on other Arabs. They only thing they're good at is killing each other.
  • Once again, living up to your name, Pendejito.  LOL
  • ganghiscon
    A much more effective campaign would involve some of that infamous Palestinian chicken.
  • Shara: I like you.
    Larry: What’s not to like?
    Shara: Eh, you’re a Jew.
  • felixthecat
    Israel ban horse drawn carriages and they neuter feral cats. I support their compassion. Now if only they end kappora. USA needs to atop meddling in other affairs. USA is no longer a superpower. We should fix our own issues. There is apartheid in NYC. The rich is manhattan selected areas while the rest if us live in crime ridden filthy streets. And yes crime is up but not reported. Thefts every night on trains.
  • jibbly
    Sometimes I can't believe you really exist.  It's simultaneously entertaining and frightening to think about.
  • ktinnyc
    It always comes back to horse drawn carriages and cats, doesn't it?
  • felixthecat
    it just seems to work out that way. it's all connected
  • whitecastlerock
    and kappora...
  • felixthecat
    Also aid to Pakistan and Egypt. And stop making wars. Ron paul is right. Nation building has to end. If only people voted for ton Paul. Obama is part of corporate agenda. He duped us big time
  • Dunce_Party
    I would totally support Ron Paul based on his foreign policy stance. But when it comes to everything else, the man is delusional. He believes that we don't need publicly-funded healthcare because good Christian doctors will care for those who can't afford it out of the goodness of their hearts. He doesn't think human evolution is real. He wants to repeal Roe v. Wade and he's against marriage equality. Trust me, I really want to support him due to his reasoned stances on civil liberties (ending the drug war, dismantling the TSA) and foreign policy. But he's half-crazy.
  • mrnvr
    We're all 1/2 crazy in some way. I think the part about ending foreign wars for not only financial but security reasons makes way more sense than 90% of the rhetoric the other politicians spout. 

    His stance on publicly funded heathcare is complex tho.. I mean, the man is a physician. His basic stance is you don't rob from one to give to another and it is in our best interest as a country to help our fellow man. You know how you see someone passed out on the street in NYC and you just keep on walking? Why do people just walk by? Because someone else will take care of him? He's probably some bum who passed out drunk? Many people just assume someone else will take care of it... it's the same with health care. 

    If the government is paying the bill, why should anybody be responsible for their own health? Also, why should you be paying money involuntarily  for another person to not take care of their bodies?

    In reality no hospital will turn down a patient in need... neither will any doctor. We help people who NEED help, not people who expect it.

    Have you ever been to the emergency room at Woodhull? Lots of low income patients receiving free healthcare because they have a tummy ache or something minor. They don't have to pay for ER care so why should they actually go see their physician?

    The whole system is broken... Ron Paul at least recognizes that.
  • Dunce_Party
    As much as you'd like to think it's that simple, not everything is simply about "personal responsibility". Taking care of your body does not guarantee that you'll never get sick or injured. Many perfectly healthy people who exercise, eat right and run ten miles a day end up getting cancer. Disease is not always directly correlated to health habits. And debilitating accidents can happen to anyone at anytime. That's why libertarianism should not apply to healthcare. The stakes are just too high. It's not "robbing" somebody to give to someone else if taxpayer money is used to provide people with health services who would otherwise go without treatment and possibly die.

    There really is no difference between helping somebody who's hurt on the street and agreeing to have your tax money used for vital health services (instead of sending it to Israel for weapons and checkpoints).

    "Lots of low income patients receiving free healthcare because they have a tummy ache or something minor. They don't have to pay for ER care so why should they actually go see their physician?"

    If you're low income, you can't afford health insurance and you certainly can't pay out of pocket to see a physician. A "tummy ache" may seem minor to you, but it could actually be a sign of pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer or liver disease. Nothing is really ever "minor" when it comes to health. 

    Yes the system is broken. Making it even more laissez-faire so that insurance companies can make even more money at the expense of people's lives does not make it better. If people in this country were smart, they would realize that the nationalized healthcare systems they have in Canada, Australia, the UK and Japan work very well despite what politicians and mainstream media outlets in the US tell us on a daily basis. 

    I would love to live in a country where a freak accident or a serious health complication won't force me to choose between getting treatment but going bankrupt or ignoring the problem until I die. That is all.
  • mrnvr
    I had a wicked sweet response but it seems to have been taken down... maybe i linked to too many articles.

    Hey Gothamist... if you're there put that back up!!!! Tnx.
  • mrnvr
    maybe it was off topic??!?!? idk.
  • Guest
    ugh that's depressing....
  • mattbrooklyn
    This is Weprin's fault, right?
  • jza1218
    So this ad is about a Palestinian and Israeli getting gay-married and adopting two kids right?
  • whitecastlerock
    Hey Dov try redirecting your energies to say, Brooklyn. You know the borough that has kids getting shot, shootouts between thugs and police, innocent people being slaughtered on their stoops.
  • D.B
    Fuck Dov Hikind !
  • Dunce_Party
    Yeah, but the kids getting shot are Goyim so who cares? Of all the boroughs, Brooklyn by far has the largest group of charlatans in office who can give two shits about the people that actually live there.
  • Dov Hikind has been too busy of late feeding anti-Obama propaganda to the Chasidic Community in Brooklyn to cause them to throw the election in Cong. District 9.  So now we are stuck with a Republican with zero political experience in a district that has been Democratic since 1920.  He convinced the Chasidim that Democrats support gay marriage; meanwhile, this new Congressman originated the Jerry Springer Show. The Chasidim don't have TVs, so of course they don't know who Jerry Springer is.  Dov Hikind should be removed by voters.  He is so busy pushing his Orthodox agenda that he has no time to worry about shootouts, drive-bys, or anything to do with people of color.
  • Zach Scheinerman
    Thinking American aid to Israel should be ended is a legitimate point of view. The only issue I have with the ads is that they are misleading. It makes it sound like both Israelis and Palestinians want to end US aid to Israel, and that's the end of the discussion, so why won't America get with the program? The issue is about a hundred times for complicated than that, if both sides really feel that way, which they don't.
  • Dunce_Party
    That's the whole point of advertising. Paring down a complicated message to only a few words and appealing to your emotions instead of your reason.
  • John_Del_Signore
    Please, take a bow: You just posted the dumbest comment of the day. And believe me, you had a LOT of competition.
  • FU Boy
    Aw, I wanted to find out who the idiot was... 'Guest' my left foot. ;)
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