Puckering Up for Peace?

No, this isn't some kiss-and-tell PaliLeaks photo. It's part of a Benetton ad campaign featuring world leaders lip locked. According…

By Pesach Benson November 17, 2011

No, this isn’t some kiss-and-tell PaliLeaks photo. It’s part of a Benetton ad campaign featuring world leaders lip locked.

According AdAge, The Economist, New York Magazine, and Newsweek, among others, will be publishing the ads later this month, though other publications have given a tight-lipped refusal.

I’ll be tongue tied if Abbas just embraces peace instead of hopping into bed with Hamas.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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