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[mao4269]

As I read about rising tensions between Israel and Iran, I couldn't help but think about an Israeli advertisement that tries to capitalize on Iran's role in the "clash of civilizations".   It's an advertisement for cable and shows Iranians, including an ersatz Ahmadinajed, dancing and singing in praise of this great programming (there appear to be

Comments

[eumelia]

Poor Taste and Political Incorrectness FTW!!!

'Tis true, PC is quite disregarded here as Israelis really have no shame saying whatever they want not caring that we sound like morons. I'm very Un-PC, but one has to be in order to be heard at times.

Those YES ads are hilarious! As for the Orthodox community not liking the one featuring them, I'm surprised they noticed; isn't tv supposed to be frivolity, how on earth did they even know about this ad? /sarcasm.

[mao4269]

Frivolity is what the modern Orthodox folks who presumably are the ones who let the Haredim know about the ad call TV, but clearly all good Jews know that TV is really a siren's call pulling people from the derech and leading them towards averot - err, averos, I haven't been consorting with those evil Sephardi-accented "secular" Israelis enough to pick up their pronunciation, really! (Alright, fun as it is to produce copious amounts of sarcasm, you probably have better things to do than read it and I should get back to taking notes on Jordan.)