I was watching TV the other night and saw a new episode of the Verizon Wireless commercial, you know the one I mean, a guy with a cell phone at his ear repeatedly asks “Can you hear me now?” as he moves from spot to spot in the swamp, or desert, or city. And now, or plastic tent, which is where the new one takes place. It features veteran Palestinian detainee Abed al-Ahmar. What’s that, you haven’t seen it yet? Well then, click here.
In a late-breaking development, Israel has demanded that Verizon pull the al-Ahmar ad because it “aids, abets, glorifies and/or trivializes terrorism.”
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As Uri Avnery mentions, the settlers “have at their disposal almost unlimited amounts of money, provided by American Jewish millionaires and Christian fundamentalists.” One of the millionaires is Irving Moskowitz, whose casino license application is pending before California’s Gambling Control Commission. An effort is under way to stopmoskowitz.
