Anti-Israel Billboards Removed

By Olivier Uyttebrouck

An outdoor advertising company this week removed 10 billboards calling for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel after receiving dozens of phone calls and e-mails objecting to the ad's message. They featured photos of a Palestinian girl and an Israeli tank with the text, "Tell Congress: Stop Killing Children; No More Military Aid to Israel."

The billboards, which went up in early April in Albuquerque, were purchased by the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel, at a cost of about $3,200 for an eight-week contract.
The group wants to suspend a 2007 agreement that provides $30 billion in military aid to Israel over 10 years. It formed in January in response to a three-week Israeli military operation in Gaza.

Michael Mons, a general manager of Lamar Outdoor Advertising, said his office has received at least 75 phone calls in addition to e-mails from people expressing a range of opinions about the billboards. Of course this was not your everyday people, when would just a small number of people have such a impact. You can surly see the arm of the ADL or some other Zionist Lobby at work in this decision.

"Judging from e-mails and voice mails I've received, it's a very emotional issue," Mons said Thursday.

"I realized it did not comply with our policy, because it was misleading and factually inaccurate, and that's when I decided to pull the ads," he said. "We do know that military aid is going (to Israel), but it is not going there with the purpose to kill children." No of course not!They just created their T-Shirts mocking their killings of woman and children for something to do...Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Gaza Killings - Terrorist fashion 2009 ...

Mons said he plans to meet today with group members and attempt to revise the message. What short of message would that be....You don't have a board big enough to put the real message that needs to be sent. Coalition member Lori Rudolph said Thursday that she disagreed with Mons' interpretation of the ad's message. "We didn't say (the money) is being sent to kill children," Rudolph said, "we're saying it is killing children."Of course not. The money is being sent to kill everyone who has any show of resistance or who does not bow down to Israel or American Interest.

She also said Mons should have met with coalition members before he decided to remove the ads. The firm had an obligation to fulfill the eight-week contract, she said.

Mons responded that the firm intends to honor its contract with the group. "They're going to get their full contract value," he said.Even if it means Americans are shielded from Truth and just pass off the message and heed nothing from it.