Israeli Supermarket parodies a killing to promote food sales.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8561247.stm
This country is rapidly developing a singular lack of good taste in its humour.
I know this attempt to sell food from a supermarket involves only the death of one person ( that Dubai Hamas hit ) but when you add in the comedy shows that blamed the image of Israel as bloodthirsty irrational killers on foreign news crews ( like the BBC) and nothing at all to do with anything they themselves have conjured up ….you get a country fueled sky high on its own fantasies.
The only thing wrong with that satirists anger with the fictional and delusional idea of foreign news reporting….is that the Israelis are not irrational.Its all rational.Hit us , we hit you 10 times back.Get organised , we hit you.Need a provocation to justify something , we hit you.Not that Fatah was any better …just more inept.
Israelis have humour to add to their extensive arsenal of self delusion. In a world of their own.
Putting the Turkish Ambassador on a smaller chair was no doubt the Government deciding that Comedy is the future .The application of humour and comedy to help humiliate an Ally is a new weapon….unleashed on a foreign power.
Who will be next?
Obama will get the full roast ….but when he leaves Office.
Just like the US is dividing into two separate poles …one based on fear and singularly lacking in humour ( one element is the Tea Party , Fox news ) and the other more liberal US that is not fear based and has a sense of humour ( Jewish people in the US like John Stewart ).
I think that the famous Jewish sense of humour is alive and kicking in the US because they are politically poles apart form the Jews in Israel who have a fear based society ( and thus have a singular lack of humour in their …humour )
Humour resides in the right frontal lobes and fear in a pole ( or poles ) of the Amygdala ( fear centre of the brain ) and that translates into two different types of political beings.
I have my theories on the Left Right divide.( based on personal insecurity and how we deal with it on a fine grained subconscious level ) ..heres a another piece of the jigsaw I need to add in somehow.
The Supermarket ad is important ..because an ad shows acceptable enough behaviours .
Is it the Russian influx? Israel has had tougher times before than now…yet it seems to be sliding deeper into its own right wing bubble.
Netanyahu looks like a willing passenger rather than any leader …unlike Sharon.
He is like right wing wallpaper , mood music.Something has to give and I think the flat jokes might be all that Israel has to offer.
Iran faces ‘most significant UN nuclear sanctions’
Its a function of energy prices.
Russia is losing money and has realised that its fantasy of becoming the worlds energy King Kong are over ( collapse of gas prices)…hence its need to suck up to the West.
Money makes the world go around…
Interesting to see how Hamas did very well out the snactions by being able to tax and control the tunnels.In Iran…sanctions busting …illegal mafia style economy is run by the Revolutionary Guards ( they run the illegal trade in satellitte dishes)
More sanctions will just give them more funds.But as I have repeated before..Like North Korea….they will need military action from abroad..in this case Isreal or the US to help shore up nationalistic feelings to help keep the regime in power.