A major US Jewish organization has placed an advertisement in a number of US widespread newspapers accusing Yusuf al-Qaradawi, head of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, Khaled Mashaal, head of Hamas Political Bureau, and other Muslim leaders of being obstacles to what it described as Israel's quest for Peace. The American-Jewish Committee (AJC), one of the most influential US-Jewish organizations, has published a full-page ad in Wall Street Journal and New York Post on June 11 under the title "Not everyone wants Israel to live in peace". The ad carried a photo of Qaradawi and described him as a Muslim Brotherhood leader, in addition to other photos of Meshaal, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Below every photo, the AJC published an anti-Israel sentence by each of the four men to demonstrate that they "do not want Israel to live in peace".
Below Qaradawi's photo, it published a sentence he said in January 2009 saying: "Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people and kill them, down to the very last one." Below Nasrallah's photo, there was a statement in May 2009 saying: "The Zionist entity is not legitimate, and will not be legitimate in any situation." Below the photo of Meshaal, the AJC published a statement in May 2009 saying: "There is only one enemy in the region, and that is Israel." As for the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution in Iran, the ad published his statement last March in which he said: "Israel is a cancerous tumor."
