Friday, June 4, 2010

Sick Israeli parody video

Right. I saw this video on Boing Boing, and I'm not embedding it, so if you want to watch the creepiest example of Israeli anti-Gaza aid propaganda so far, click here to watch it on YouTube. The 'Flotilla Choir presents: We Con the World' revolting parody of the originally schmaltzy 'We Are the World' made me reach for the sick-bag. As if the utterly inappropriate (I'm being over-polite here, the alternative being X-rated language) sense of humour were not enough - when people have been killed, wounded, traumatised, terrorised by the Israeli military that raided the flotilla a few days ago - the twats who made the video (I'm still being polite, believe me) had the nerve to include footage from the raid.

Should people log into YouTube and post a few vicious jokes about the Nazi and the Jews in response to that video? That'd be hilarious, wouldn't it?

I logged in and clicked 'DISLIKE', in fact, and I hope many more people find out about it and do the same.

Update: 'Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range' autopsy results reveal (from the Guardian). In the light of the autopsy, the horrendous video parody, produced by Latma TV, is not only in extremely poor taste but deeply offensive personally to the families of the nine murdered activists.

In case you were wondering who's behind this, by the way, it's Jerusalem Post columnist Ms Caroline Glick, former adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As the New York Times report:
'Ms. Glick explained that the video was produced for Latma, an Israeli media satire Web site she edits, which is an initiative of the Center for Security Policy in Washington.'

The Center for Security Policy, I should add, claims to be a 'non-profit, non-partisan national security organization that specializes in identifying policies, actions, and resource needs that are vital to American security'. A few lines further down it promptly rubbishes its own claims to non-partisanship by adding 'We as a nation must also work to undermine the ideological foundations of totalitarianism and Islamist extremism with at least as much skill, discipline and tenacity as President Reagan employed against Communism to prevail in the Cold War.'

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