Cover of Israeli Iran attack preparedness pamphlet. (Photo: Stringer/Reuters)
Weeks after passing out gas masks, the Israeli government has started distributing emergency pamphlets that use a muppet character similar to Oscar the Grouch to prepare families for an attack from Iran. Reuters lately reported on the 15-page booklet slipped into mailboxes by the Home Front Command, Israel’s emergency response service:
Israelis, the military-issued booklet says, would have only between 30 seconds and three minutes to find cover and hunker down between the time air raid sirens sound and rockets slam into their area.
…On the cover a smiling Moishe Oofnik, the Israeli muppet version of Oscar the Grouch – the resident pessimist of the U.S. children’s show Sesame Street – sticks out of the trash can he calls home.
He strikes a more pensive pose inside the booklet, resting his head on his hand under instructions on what to do when sirens wail.
Screen shot of Israel Home Front’s icon of emergency preparedness, muppet Moishe Oofnik. (Image: oref.mdigital.co.il)
The trashcan-dwelling puppet brochures on safety are a familiar and comforting learning tool to help Israelis deal with the rising tensions with Iran. In the brochure, the government tells families to discuss the possibility of war at home, but recommends not doing so if family members are upset, watching television, or eating. The subliminal message is that Iran, in it of itself, is already upsetting enough:
‘You should find the proper time to have the conversation — not during mealtime or when you are watching television. It should not be held after a family argument or when you are agitated about some other pressing matter.’
Another “lost in translation” post- the image shows preparedness for the earthquake.
Yeah right for all the good this fluffy-sided preparation will do.
Listen to me israelis everywhere: use your heads, use your passports – don’t trust what your government tells you.
a regular, public awareness campaign just in case israel bombs iran. hide under your bed, the russians are coming the russians are coming.
“… Israelis, the military-issued booklet says, would have only between 30 seconds and three minutes to find cover and hunker down between the time air raid sirens sound and rockets slam into their area.”
The Israeli government never tells its people the truth. 30 seconds and 3 minutes of warning time is not about the time the rockets need to travel from Iran to Israel but from Lebanon to Israel. A couple of weeks back, Nasrallah that never lies, implied in a speech that if Israel starts anything, thousands of missiles would rain on the Haifa Bay petro and bio-chemical reservoirs that could kill tens of thousands and not the mere 500 being understated by the Israeli government. The Israeli military has already conceded that Hizbullah’s misiles can reach any point in Israel, which includes Dimona.
Always thought Bibi was a muppet.