SEATTLE BUS CORP REJECTS ANTI-ISRAELI ADS

The outcry over an attempted anti-Israel advertisement in Seattle, which is overrun with shady characters as it is, has led the local bus company to practically want to ban all political ads of this sort. From the Seattle Times:

The outcry over a proposed bus ad to protest Israeli actions in Gaza prompted King County Executive Dow Constantine on Friday to order the county's transit system not to accept it or any other new noncommercial advertising.

A group called Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign paid nearly $1,800 to place the ad on 12 buses, starting Monday. The placard shows children and a demolished building with the caption, "Israeli War Crimes - Your tax dollars at work."

Monday is the two-year anniversary of Israel attacking Gaza. The three-week invasion, begun after Israel received incessant rocket barrages, left more than 1,400 Palestinians dead, including many civilians.

Is this newspaper trying to incite simultaneously (they don't mention any of the Israelis hurt or killed)? I'm not sure, but it's good if the bus company owners are going to avoid politically charged ads like this in the future. After all, the atmosphere has become far too politically charged in the past decade. It's something that many people need to move away from.

This clip says:

On Wednesday, Seattle Jewish community leaders held a meeting with senior officials from the King County Executive's office and Metro Transit management about the "potential threat to the Seattle-area Jewish community" after over 2,000 emails, and numerous organizations announced that counter advertisements would be initiated to promote Israel.

The problem here is that it's not clear enough, but I assume they mean that anti-Israelists could try to attack the Jewish community because of these ads. They're right to be concerned.