Sherine Tadros (@SherineT)
10/18/10 10:23 AM
#Israel's tourism minister has invited #Chilean miners to #Israel for #Christmas
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Lucky miners. I hope they get stickers.
maybe we should send the miners to this blog and let them see for themselves how bad of an idea is to accept.
This story made Haaretz.
Israel invites Chilean miners for a ‘spiritual’ Christmas in the Holy Land
Good PR. It’s too bad the Palestinians didn’t think of it first – it would have been interesting to see whether or not Israel would have blocked the visit.
That’s ironic. Yes, come to the country that knows the most about killing people by trapping them under collapsed underground tunnels!
I’ll be interested to know their response.
From the Chile wiki page:
Roughly 500,000 of Chile’s population is of full or partial Palestinian origin.
I’d be surprised if Israel wasn’t aware of that when they made the decision to invite the miners to Israel. It’d be a delicious irony if some of the miners are Palestinian who are then refused entry at Ben Gurion Airport. Chile is 17 million people.
Seeing as two of the miners’ names are Omar and Osman, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were of Palestinian descent.
I was thinking the same thing. I remember reading somewhere that a very large number of Chile’s MP’s are of Palestinian descent, and that support in Chile’s parliament for the cause spans all political parties.
Most Chileans of Palestinian descent emigrated there from the Bethlehem area, from the late 19th up to the mid 20th century. Most have intermarried and assimilated.
How do you say Happy Chanuka in Spanish?
C’mon. You guys are being [expletive deleted], including you, Phil, with this post. Not everything that Israel does is evil and propagandistic.
Choose your battles.
Is that why the IDF hospital spent a grand total of just 11 days in Haiti – just enough time to have fawning segments shot by all the US networks? More than 200,000 people killed, 300,000 injured and Israel couldn’t even stay there for 2 flippin’ weeks!?!?
Fox News
CNN 1
CNN 2 (“Israel is staying al least another month”!)
NBC
CBS
ABC 1
ABC 2
If you think I’m being cynical, meditate on the fate of the Israeli doctor who complained about the PR aspects of the mission:
I understood the purpose perfectly when the head of one of the delegations to a disaster zone was asked whether oxygen tanks and a number of doctors could be removed to make room for another TV network’s representatives with their equipment…
…supplanting the actual aid mission, and was promptly fired.
He also said:
…But would the evening news show the commander of the Israeli mission at the compound with 500 chemical toilets? Unlikely. It is much more media savvy to show an Israeli hospital, replete with stars of David and of course the dedicated doctors and nurses, dressed in their snazzy uniforms with an Israeli flag on the lapel.
…But apparently a minute of TV coverage is much more important…and in fact Israel is using disasters as [military] field training in rescue and medical care. After a fortnight, the mission will reportedly return to Israel. To be truly effective a field hospital needs to remain for two or three months, but that’s a condition that Israel cannot meet.
…It is only in the Israeli aid compound in Haiti that large signs carrying the donor country’s name hang for all to see.
Not everything Israel does is evil, but propaganda sure does figure heavily…
Who said it was evil and propagandistic? I see: ‘inevitable’, ‘good PR’, and ‘ironic’.
Honi soi qui mal y pense.
“Who said it was evil and propagandistic?”
I may…
After reading Sumud’s and Taxi’s comments, may I join you?
Bomb the tunnels down the road in Gaza and invite Chilean miners for a ‘spiritual Christmas’? Will the Israelis make a fuzz over Palestinian Chilean miners to demonstrate to the world: See, we are not racist at all and we LOVE Palestinians, as long as they live in Chile, or any Arab country, and let us have our Jewish state, in peace and security. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Choose your battles
Hark! It’s the Jew Sun t’zu.
Well what is the reason then for inviting them, if it is not purely the propagandist aim? Israel is a self declared Jewish nation which doesn’t celebrate Christmas and Chilean miners are mostly Catholics. This invitation is as hypocritical as it would be inviting the miners to Mecca or Tehran to celebrate Christmas. Actually more because Islam gives more “authority” to Jesus than Judaism does.
Is Israel beginning to claim Christmas as “their” holiday and beginning to build a image for Israel as the Santa Claus home country?
Simo,
Israel did invent Christmas, don’t you know?
Sure I know. Christmas is celebrated on the old pagan holiday, winter solstice. Anyway, Christmas with the name Christmas is a Christian holiday and Judaism has a bit “difficult” relationship with Jesus, whose birthday is celebrated on Christmas. Now when Israel is in a very much emphasising its Jewish character as a country it is a rather hypocritical to pretend to be a secular country. For Judaism inviting guests to celebrate Christmas is encouraging to celebrate a holiday on a false (for them) prophet’s birthday. If somebody should invite the Chilean miners to the Holy Land it is the Christian Churches and people of Bethlehem, not a Jewish right-wing extremist minister.
“Not everything that Israel does is evil and propagandistic.”
You are right. Some of the things Israel does are just evil.
They would be very impressed with Palestinian tunnel architects and diggers.
Haha Taxi,
Good idea. They should also go to Gaza to look at the tunnels.
lol. so predictable! did israel host johnny who fell down the well, yet?