Outrageous Outrage: Anti-Obama Billboards Spread Across NYC, Showing Obama Shaking Hands With Abbas
The Emergency Committee for Israel has been ramping up its criticism of the Obama administration, launching ad campaigns in the run-up to today’s NY-9 election and the Palestinian unilateral statehood declaration at the UN.
The group’s latest billboard ads, which went up today, feature a giant photo of President Obama and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas sharing a jovial handshake in front of a Palestinian flag. ‘Attacking Israel at the United Nations: Not Pro-Israel,’ blares one of the billboards.
‘Calling for a divided Jerusalem: Not Pro-Israel,’ reads another.
Except: President Obama is opposed to a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood.
Except, President Obama has made it clear that he is opposed to a Palestinian declaration of statehood.
US President Barack Obama said on Monday that a Palestinian bid for recognition next week at the United Nations was a “distraction” and would not result in viable statehood.
In a roundtable with Hispanic journalists, Obama also said that Israel would “hurt itself” if it retaliated to any such action by withdrawing resources that in any way harmed Palestinian self-policing efforts.
The United States has already threatened to veto any bid for full recognition by the Palestinians in the UN Security Council, a step that is expected at the UN General Assembly next week in New York.
Obama said the Palestinian tactics were “a distraction” and did not solve the problem of statehood.