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.
Incremental steps to radicalism
Lebanese fortune teller sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia.
In the past , King Fahd would have thrown the conservatives some treat to give up the bone they were chewing.Fahd was weak from the perspective of gambling playboy trying to appease the conservatives….hence Saudi Arabia becomes …incrementally …a cranky religious society during his reign.
Adullah hopefully does’nt make the same mistake.He needs to go head to head with this powerplay and win it …without concession.The fact that its got this far suggests he does’nt have a strong hand…..i.e he will throw some crumbs their way to get the release of the Lebanese fortune teller.
If he does….his Kingdom will always remain a nest of backwardness.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/04/saudi-arabia-lebanese-tv-psychics-death-sentence-stayed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BabylonBeyond+%28Babylon+%26+Beyond+Blog%29
( Comment from a reader ….”The man claims to be a psychic. Didn’t he see this coming? )