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Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Who?
Richard Gere advises to Get Out The Vote"I don't even know who the candidates are other than Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), let alone this Gere," Gaza soap factory worker Manar an-Najar told Reuters.
"We don't need the Americans' intervention. We know who to elect. Not like them -- they elected a moron."
A video image shows U.S. actor Richard Gere (news) showing his support in a television advert for a pro-peace group to help persuade Palestinians to vote in their upcoming presidential elections is this grab taken January 4, 2005. Well known for his vocal support of Tibet's Dalai Lama and celebrated for his captivating good looks, Gere urged Palestinians in a television commercial broadcast ahead of Sunday's poll in the West Bank and Gaza to get out to vote for a new president to succeed Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), who died in November. (Reuters - Handout)