Is Obama engaged in agitprop?

Yisrael Medad
Green-Lined/JPost
31 August '10

Is Washington engaged in a subversion agitprop campaign? Against an ally?

According to the Jerusalem Post:

The Geneva Initiative unveiled a campaign partially funded by the USAID in which Palestinian leaders speak to the Israeli public in video clips, telling Israelis that there is a Palestinian partner for an agreement. Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the PLO Executive Committee Yasser Abed Rabbo and Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub have recorded short messages: "I am your partner. Are you my partner?" In the clips, the Palestinians speak about what they label missed opportunities, and ensuing disappointments as well as potential perils of missing the current opportunity to reach an agreement based on the two-state solution."

UPI adds that:

The US government was approached to fund the campaign by the Geneva Initiative founders, who drew up an agreement in 2003 to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US Agency for International Development, or USAID, invested close to $250,000 toward the creation of the billboards."

In a previous post at Greenlined (as well as this one) I took note of the practice of the Consulate-General of the United States in Jerusalem, which oversees all diplomatic activity in the capital, both east and west, in addition to the territories of Judea and Samaria, to simply ignore the Jews residing in the area. The President of NOW visited Israel, but was not introduced to religious women -some I know to be fierce feminists - rather only spoke with Israeli activists in Tel Aviv, whom I will make an educated guess did not exactly express support for Jewish residency across the Green Line.

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