A group won the right to advertise its mass Washington rally protesting 40 years of Israeli presence in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and eastern Jerusalem. The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is joining with other pacifist groups in planning the June 10 event. On its Web site the group includes the Gaza Strip on its list of occupied areas, though Israel unilaterally withdrew from the area in 2005, evacuating all settlements and shutting down army bases. Israel still controls most access points to Gaza.In a release Wednesday, organizers said that transit authorities at first resisted its ad campaign but relented, apparently after intervention by the American Civil Liberties Union. The poster features a child facing a tank across a rock-strewn landscape and declaring: “The world says NO to Israeli occupation!” The ad campaign starts in May.
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