Posted on 04/03/2014 11:15:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
If you can’t convince them, bribe them? As the peace talks crumble due to unilateral Palestinian Authority (PA) moves Tuesday breaching the talk conditions, and the US admits it can’t save the situation, one committed leftist group has decided to step in—by directly bribing Israelis to support “peace.”
The group, Kol Echad (“One Voice”), announced that on Friday it will send dozens of activists to hand out checks for $1,175 to Israelis. The money for “peace” will apparently be passed out on Tel Aviv’s Nahalat Binyamin pedestrian mall on Friday between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.
It is not known how many checks will be distributed and by what criteria.
The movement claims that continuing the “occupation” of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem costs every Israeli taxpayer $1,175 annually.
The initiative, which is entitled “Peace, It Also Pays,” is meant “to encourage the Israeli public to emerge from its indifference to the future of the peace talks.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
If leftists want to give away their money, that’s fine with me.
They’re reduced to a desperate stunt that will only lead people to laugh at them.
Which won’t bring peace closer.
Drag 1175 dollars through the street and you never guess what could turn up.
They must have limitless funding.
Israel has 8 million people. I wonder how many qualify.
Oh... the Sorros priviledge bait to betray others.... once again.
Indeed. I have seen judges hand over their careers to promoting crooks to power above their own for less. Heck, with Obama they do it for free +- anticapitalism blackmail.
Typical stupid leftist idea. How many people will commit suicide for $1175?
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