Two weird documents. First, an exclusive on an Israeli "contract" with international visitors not to talk to Palestinian activists -- reported by Dimi Reider at +972:
A Swedish tourist trying to enter Israel was made to sign a “contract” promising she won’t get in touch with “pro-Palestinian” organisations, and acknowledging she’ll get deported if she “gets caught doing even one of these things.” Meanwhile, Prime Minister’s Office released a letter that will be handed to deported Flytilla activists: Go to Syria.
Political contract for foreigners entering Israel
I find the Dear Activist letter Dimi Reider picks up from Ynet--and then tweeted by Netanyahu spokesman Ophir Gendleman for all the world to see-- even more disturbing. That a Prime Minister's office would be reduced to this? The dissolution. As my boss used to say to me, What are you, on crack?
Hahahahaha I’m laughing my head off at Apartheid israel’s puerile desperation!
The activists should respond to Natanyahu’s letter with the following tweet: WE LOOKED EVERYWHERE AND FOUND THAT YOU ARE THE FRIGGING PROBLEM EMEFER!
Holy crap. Pretend you are a democracy. Few are buying this anymore. Ban non violent dissent. Try to divert attention from your own human rights abuses. This seems to be a common strategy of Israel and the Israeli firsters in this country. Then claim in that letter above that you allow “human rights organizations can operate freely” Who the f do they think they are kidding. Are you convinced that Israel has been shutting down, imprisoning non violent protesters for decades?
When are they going to get it that they are their own worst enemy at this point.
Israel is really going down the toilet fast.
This has lieberman’s and Danon’s hands all over it. Normal States don’t lower themselves to such puerile levels. In Israel the only thing that seems to drive governmental PR actions now is playing to the lowest common denominator – somewhere 5 IQ points lower than the border guards.
I never thought you’d be a Ziobot because your hasbara is so passe.
But today, if you think that I don’t know about delusion and untreated Jewish pain,
You’re insane, or you’re a fool who hasn’t paid attention to a world that has changed
In a way, I can’t help but feel responsible, I always knew that you were insane
With your pain, but I never thought you’d be a ziobot because your hasbara is so passe, hey.
Hasbara is so passe, hey.
Hasbara is so passe, hey, hey.
Aaaah
So passe nowadays.
You never thought you’d look stupid , just be cooler in an obvious way
I could say, shouldn’t you have been happy with controlling Congress and the jerusalem parade for the gays
In a way, I can’t help but feel responsible, I always knew that you were insane
With your pain, but I never thought you’d be a ziobot because your hasbara is so passe, hey.
link to youtube.com
Netanyahu is providing to Israelis and Jews around the world the perfect scapegoat — himself.
Every Jewish person in the world can look in the mirror and say, We are better than this. That guy’s got to go.
Regarding the first letter
somebody probably thought that it probably will serve as an effective
filter against “activists” on assumption that they in fact have a conscience and won’t lie
in order to get into the country.
Regarding the second letter, seems to me that the PM office employs someone who thinks he is funny and /or creative.
Though i fail to see it.
Ps.
the letter is right obviously, only thing is that delivering it to “activists” is an exercise in futility.
You think these risible fools who write such claptrap have consciences about blocking the rights of the indigenous people?
I suppose these dox are real and really came from where said to come from. the first one is a treasure — you cannot come into my country unless you agree to * * * *.
Of course, the visitor doesn’t want to come into Israel, merely has to in order to get to Palestine.
The second is truly weird. Hey, world, Israel won’t seem so bad to you if you compare me (Bibi) with Idi Amin et al. Weird.
There’s a hilarious “draft” of the second letter at 972mag.
lol
It’ll be even funnier next year when that “draft” is passed around to this site and others as though it was real.
yeah, and we’ll make sure to post it under your byline. hey, what’s the point of waiting til next year, we could do it today! go fred, your ingenuity is mind altering.
Bibi (Israel, in any event) supported Idi Amin’s rise to power and propped him up until things went haywire at Entebbe airport — which Israelis built. link to jcpa.org
Ha ha, this has the whiff of the childish, resentful hasbarist comments you can read all over the internet. Condescending, sanctimonious, arrogant and mixed with a threatening subtext that betrays an awareness of the weakness and hollowness of their position. Obviously these cartoon politicians cannot see the contradiction between the first and second letters, in particular with regard to their hollow claims of ‘democracy’ – a democracy where visitors are forbidden to talk to, or even acknowledge, the original inhabitants of the land they are visiting. It is an indefensible posture, and the worst of it (for them) is their blissful unawareness that such condescending, disingenuous tripe only continues to put them in the category of fools and liars that run despotic, fundamentalist states like, er, Syria and Iran. Maybe that is why the activists come to Israel… the land run by the lords of unreason and delusion. Alfred E Newman is about right for that impostor of a politician Yahoo and his little gang of wannabes.
The first document strikes me as a way of facilitating future deportation, rather than deterring activists from entering – not entirely unlike the “Have you ever engaged in war crimes or genocide?” question on the US Immigration Dpt. questionnaire foreign visitors are required to fill out.
The second document is a clear indication that the Prime Minister’s Office – in this day of accelerated privatisation – has outsourced its communications branch to Latma.
But the joke’s on Latma: Since you have dared to protest against the only truly free, open and tolerant society in the Middle East, we have decided to detain and deport you solely on the basis of your political affiliations and sympathies – all in the name of “state security”. Enjoy your flight and please tell all your friends how a real democracy treats political criticism and dissent.
— or to Sarah Palin’s now all-but-unemployed minions. The document is almost sophomorish enough to have come out of SarahPAC.
“HOLDER OF PASSPOTT” ?
Someone did this in a hurry and without the services of a spell-checker. The grammar in the rest of the letter is not very official either. When is the “nine tens of april”?
“HOLDER OF PASSPOTT” ?
Give ‘em a break, C&D. It’s a local job by the regional office in Eilat (according to the Hebrew footer). English editor must have gotten held up at the airport or something.
As long as we’re on the subject of form, I liked the retro font and layout of the second doc. Very despot chic.
“HOLDER OF PASSPOTT”?
Definitely needed a spell-checker. I’m sure they meant PISSPOT instead, which is obviously what the Israeli authorities think a valid passport is worth.
English editor must have gotten held up at the airport or something.
Tee-hee.
Maybe they meant PISSPOOR which covers the standard of the letter.
my back-of-the-supercomputer calculation = Apr 27. but i’m not a nobel laureate, so give or take a ‘tens’.
@ CloakAndDagger,
Q: Someone did this in a hurry and without the services of a spell-checker.
R: Perhaps written by Adam ‘Proud Owner Of 10 Razzies’ Sandler?
“But instead you chose to protest against Israel, the Middle East’s sole democracy, where women are equal, the press criticizes the government, human rights organizations can operate freely, religious freedom is protected for all and minorities do not live in fear”
Phil – I think this is a parody piece – no-one, not even the Israeli government or its leaders, can seriously believe any of the above claims except perhaps for Pamela Geller.
I thought it was very funny, but, then, I think the whole flytilla was pretty funny. I guess I’m the target audience for this humor.
If it wasn’t damaging you wouldn’t bother posting, would you Yossi ?
X-Ray ’0 Vision…
You must share the same sense of adolescent petulance and feign feeble humour to disguise it.
I can’t stop laughing, you just could not make this up, only thing missing -” are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party”?
And so the following letter should inundate Bibi’s office:
“We have chosen to protest Israels regime’s daily savagery against the Palestinian people, which has claimed thousands of lives, we have chosen to protest Israels brutal crackdown on dissent and support of Israeli terrorism throughout the WB and Gaza. Yes, we have chosen to protest against Israel, the Middle East’s sole imagined and false democracy … We therefore suggest that you, Bibi, first solve these real problems, and then come back and share with us your experience. Have a nice day.
You don’t refute an objection to (what is or what the objector says is) your breach of a moral law by saying that another breach of the same (0r another) moral law is going on somewhere else. Just no logic in that.
State of Israel
I think it’s time to add it to the rest of the mental states
link to wiki.answers.com
1. Intentional
2. Knowing
3. Reckless
4. Criminal Negligence
5. Israel
Depraved indifference
This was faked by some high school SJP, right? They capitalize words almost as incorrectly as Annie!
doesn’t the zionist entity’s pm realize that solving the region’s real problems – the entity’s occupation of the palestinian homeland – is what the activists are about?
I don’t know of any other foreign, military dictatorship in the world other than the Israeli one.
This has to be a joke.
RE: “I find the Dear Activist letter Dimi Reider picks up from Ynet–and then tweeted by Netanyahu spokesman Ophir Gendleman for all the world to see– even more disturbing. That a Prime Minister’s office would be reduced to this? The dissolution. As my boss used to say to me, What are you, on crack?” ~ Weiss
MY COMMENT: That’s why I sometimes (only half-jokingly) refer to The Dissociative State of Israel™!
Dissociation (psychology) – link to en.wikipedia.org
cognitive dissonance / dissociation in this article by a ziobot stringer which was received by many newspapers via the agencies
link to irishtimes.com
“The protesters, more than a third of them from France, were either deported or put in a special detention facility awaiting flights home. The day chosen for the protest coincided with one of the busiest days of the year for the airport as some 50,000 Jewish and Christian pilgrims flew home after spending the Passover and Easter holidays in the Holy Land”
Passover covers the tyranny and human rights abuses of the Pharoah and Easter the cruelty of the Romans . Israel is simply beyond parody at this stage.
• Which country is responsible for creating and maintaining the largest refugee population in the world today?
• Which country is undertaking the longest military occupation in the world today?
• Which country is in violation of the largest number of UN Security Council resolutions?
• Which country has repeatedly launched offensive attacks on their neighbours throughout their short history, has undeclared nuclear weapons and is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
• Which country operates a defacto apartheid system, disallowing more than half those in it’s jurisdiction fundamental rights (eg. the right to vote), and operating dual legal systems based on one’s religion?
One guess for you all.
Netanyahu, what a fool.
Stating endlessly that I am a dinosaur will not transform me into one.
This letter must be put together with those videos from Kadhafi saying all is going well, or with those statements from Mubarak equally disoriented.
This is confirmation of the standing of the international solidarity movement in Israel’s halls of power. The task of trying to sway international activists is the domain of Israel’s most powerful government agency. Even if the PMO does show up as whiny and petulant.
At its inception , at the end of the 19th century, Zionism’s goal was to normalize the status of the Jew in Europe. Hasbara contiues to be an expression of terrible Israeli insecurity. The European activists’ support of Israel’s enemy really hurts.
“where women are equal”
So they can go anywhere men can go at the Kotel, any time they want???