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Counter ads for Seattle buses submitted

The American Freedom Defense Initiative has submitted two advertisements to the Seattle transit company to counter an anti-Israel advertising campaign on the city\'s buses. The ads from the group\'s Stop Islamization of America program come in response to a campaign by the Seattle Midwest Awareness Campaign, which is placing ads on 12 buses beginning Dec. 27 -- the day that Israel entered Gaza two years ago in a bid to stop rocket attacks on its southern communities.
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December 22, 2010

The American Freedom Defense Initiative has submitted two advertisements to the Seattle transit company to counter an anti-Israel advertising campaign on the city’s buses.

The ads from the group’s Stop Islamization of America program come in response to a campaign by the Seattle Midwest Awareness Campaign, which is placing ads on 12 buses beginning Dec. 27—the day that Israel entered Gaza two years ago in a bid to stop rocket attacks on its southern communities.

The Seattle Midwest Awareness Campaign ads feature a group of children looking at a demolished building under the heading “Israeli War Crimes: Your tax dollars at work.”

One of the counter ads reads, “One Billion Dollars to Hamas: Your Taxpayer dollars at Work” and shows scenes of Hamas’ anti-Israel and U.S. rallies.

According to Seattle’s King 5 News, the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign paid $1,794 to run the ads. However, King County Metro Transit would not offer the same price for the counter ads, according to Pamela Geller, the executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative. Geller said King County Metro Transit quoted her organization a price $1,000 higher than the Seattle Midwest Awareness Campaign ads. 

Meanwhile, the transit authority told King-TV that that the agency had received more than 1,200 e-mails about the anti-Israel ad as of Tuesday, mostly against it. Most of the comments came from outside the Seattle area, according to the report.

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