This is funny?

Posted on 01/25/2006 by Meryl Yourish

The Economist thinks that it’s cute to call the existential threats Iran has been making against Israel a “family feud.”

IRAN’S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says Israel is an alien implantation whose people should return to Europe or perhaps settle in Alaska. So it is an irony that Israel’s president, Moshe Katzav, is in fact a Farsi-speaker born in Iran. Ditto Israel’s defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, who is doubtless preoccupied nowadays with how to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme. He is advised by Dan Halutz, Israel’s former air-force commander and now chief of staff. Lieut-General Halutz was born in Israel, both his parents in Iran. They seem to have taught him a sense of humour. Asked how far Israel would go to stop Iran’s nuclear programme, he replied: “two thousand kilometres”.

Gee, that’s a knee-slapper. Ha. Ha. Family feud. Get it? Get it?

No.

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5 Responses to This is funny?

  1. Kav says:
    01/25/2006 at 11:28 am

    What I got from the article is that the journalist is highlighting what a stupid remark Ahmindinejad has made in saying that Israel is an alien implantation. I agree that the title is dumb but I did not get any sense that it was trying to dumb-down the many threats that Ahmindinejad, especially since it only talked about that one specific comment.

    Actually I found the end of the article as quite ominous in a very funny way. Halutz is being funny but I imagine also deadly serious, good on him.

  2. Cynic says:
    01/25/2006 at 12:56 pm

    As for a family feud Ester certainly upset Haman so I suppose several millenia won’t be enough to end it.
    From the link below one gets a different psychological perspective.

    Ahmadinejad…Liar, Hypocrite, and/or Arabs’ Stooge?

    … there still might be hope for a better tomorrow considering the Jews’ millennial relationship with the Iranian people.
    Yet Israel can’t simply wait for “hope” to materialize into something better.
    In the meantime, while Ahmadinejad and others try to cover their own rejectionist hatred with lame excuses, please remember them for the liars, hypocrites, and/or Arab stooges that they are.
    And when you hear Iranians speak of “Palestine,” answer them with Arabistan.

  3. scottage says:
    01/25/2006 at 2:55 pm

    Yeah, I think the author is trying to make it into something regional. Perhaps he needs a clue. The threat from Iran is a threat to the whole world, and simply calling it a family feud doesn’t lessen the threat to the US and other Western countries.

  4. Kav says:
    01/25/2006 at 5:29 pm

    OK, call me dumb as I just don’t see that from this single article. I see someone pointing out how stupid a statement it was that Israelis should bugger off back to Europe when prominent Israelis, politicians and military, came from the ‘backyard’ of Ahmindinejad. Perhaps there is a history to this journo that I am unaware of and so I am missing some important context. I really don’t see any attempt to turn this into a regional problem.

  5. Kav says:
    01/25/2006 at 8:52 pm

    I should clarify my last comment. I in no way meant to infer that if there had been no Israelis who could trace lineage from the area that the comment would have been ok.

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