Since the clip is not translated, here is its synopsis from Israelity:

That’s the case anyway with the current TV ad campaign by cable provider HOT, which is promoting its ‘on-demand’ episodes of the popular spy-comedy show ‘Asfur’ by offering a free Samsung Galaxy tablet as enticement for prospective customers to sign up for the on-demand package.

In the ad, a bored Mossad agent stationed in Iran, apparently to monitor Iran’s nuclear development, meets up with three characters from the show who are also clandestinely in the country dressed as women. Sitting in a café, the agent shows off the Samsung Galaxy, explaining that he used his downtime to use the on-demand option to watch episodes of ‘Asfur’.

At the end of the clip, one of the three Asfur accidentally pushes an application on the tablet over the frantic efforts of the agent, and a nuclear reactor is detonated in the background.

Well, as David from Israelity says, “Typical Israeli sophomoric, whistling in the dark, hilarious humor.”

However, some moron (or several morons) in the Iranian Majlis (parliament) decided not only to take offense, but to (mis)direct his displeasure at Samsung, whose tablet is used as enticement in that ad.

The sheer stupidity of that Iranian act of indignation is mirrored by Tehran’s overseas branch Press TV article:

Meanwhile, Samsung’s Dubai office has issued a statement condemning the production of the teaser by the company’s Israel office.

Of course, poor Samsung and its Israeli office have nothing to do with that ad, the fact that escapes understanding of Tehran lawmakers and Press TV, although Samsung has stressed that point – if you care to read the next paragraph in the linked piece:

Samsung’s public relations official in Tehran, Elaheh Taheri, told reporters on Thursday the clip had nothing to do with the South Korean company and that it had been produced by an Israeli cable TV station, Hot.

However, the iron will of Ayatollahs will not be distracted by minor details, and Samsung was chosen to bear the wrath. Perhaps as a lesson to others:

Fat’hipour said Samsung’s apology to the Iranian nation, though necessary, would not be enough and that the company must be held accountable for producing the teaser.

Of course, I understand that by boycotting the Israeli cable provider HOT Majlis is not going to achieve much in the way of retaliation, but choosing Samsung?

I have almost made my mind to compensate Samsung for the unpleasant incident in my own small way, fixing to purchase one of their new products. You should too.

Next: President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmoud (the Mad) Ahmadinejad decides to boycott the Swiss shoes manufacturer Bally, since a person unknown pissed in his shoes while he was praying in his favorite mosque.

Update: thanks to Sabba Hillel, here is a link to a version of the same clip with English subtitles and some preliminary info. With one mistake, however: the bug that is swatted at the end of the clip is called “khumeni” in Hebrew slang, however the name stems from its color (“khum” means brown) and not from a similarly sounding name of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

A hard-line Jewish settler who wants to pay Palestinians to leave the West Bank and Gaza is running against Israel’s prime minister in Tuesday’s ruling party primary election.

Moshe Feiglin has little chance of defeating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he could deliver an embarrassing blow to the country’s leader in his fourth try for leadership of the Likud, none of which have had a realistic shot at success.

Experts say Feiglin could get a third of the vote in the closed party primary, reflecting the view of hard-liners that Netanyahu, despite his uncompromising worldview, is not hawkish enough.

Got it? This guy hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in hell of winning, but note the slam at Netanyahu bolded above.

Now look what else the AP says about him.

Israeli nationalists believe the West Bank must remain under Israeli control for religious and security reasons. Though Netanyahu backed that view for years, his movement has edged toward compromise in recent years, and Netanyahu himself has accepted the concept of creating a Palestinian state.

Really? So, you mean–Netanyahu has compromised on his former views? In the exact opposite of what you report two whole paragraphs ago?

They say that analysts are “divided” over how Feiglin’s challenge will affect Netanyahu’s actions. That’s because they interviewed two “analysts” and one said it would have no effect, and the other said it would.

And there you have it, folks. Another day in Scary Israel-Land reporting in the AP, and still not a single word about Palestinian TV praising the murders of the Fogel family (including a three-month old infant) as “heroes.”

To be pregnant in Israel is comparable to a military operation. Countless echos and blood tests should produce the perfect baby, nothing can be left to the luck of the draw. The state demands healthy babies and a lot of them too.

Or like this:

What makes things even more emotionally charged is the Israeli demand to produce many children.

Pity I didn’t know about this demand when I came over to Israel so many years ago. I would have recruited a battalion of female volunteers and organized a breeding farm. With self in a easily predictable role, of course. Too late, unfortunately…

Read more in CiF Watch.

One point the author missed: the Arab, Bedouin and all other minorities in Israel are subject to the same “countless” Zionist tests. Which means… but let’s not make the issue too difficult for a Dutch Christian daily, the virulently anti-Zionist lady who authored the article and their grateful readers.

If you wish, you could address Ms Van Heusden at her Facebook page. Here is her thoughtful image:

So, don’t thank us anymore, Ilse. Really.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

Ew, Jew cooties! Algerians are rounding up the evil made-in-Israel clothing that they’re finding mixed in with the presumably non-kosher clothing. But worry not, the Algerian inspectors are on the case:

A source told the newspaper “we cannot rule out the possibility that an international ring smuggled the Israeli clothes into the country and that its operatives are being assisted by Algerian vendors based in several districts.”

Gasp! No! An international Israeli clothes smuggling ring! It’s the end of civilization as we know it! Damn those horrible Israelis, wanting to clothe people for profit! Damn them all!

Nu? Two Jews won the World Talking Championship? Two Israeli men won the World Universities Debating Championship. Really, talkative Jews? I had no idea that my people talked so much. None whatsoever. Not at all. Jews? Talky? Oh, come on. Shirley you jest.

Our drone’s better than your drone: If Israel’s drone is so sucky, then howcome Turkey didn’t shoot it down, even though they said they almost shot it down (and I almost one $200 million in the lottery the other week, too). Really? They called up two F-16 jets and couldn’t find it and shoot it down? Ya think maybe they’re–I don’t know–lying? Yeah, me too. Their drone is so much better than Israel’s that it manages to identify fuel smugglers as terrorists and murder dozens of them. But don’t worry, they’re going to pay compensation to the families.

Don’t worry, CAIR (and the NY justice system) is still going to call these hate crimes: The guy who threw molotov cocktails at various Hindu and Islamic buildings in New York is a nutjob who swore he’d get even because the proprietor of the store stopped him from stealing, and the other places wouldn’t let him use their bathrooms. Yeah, that sounds like a Muslim-hating freak to me.

Two! Two! Two nutjobs for the price of one: So that scumbag that was lighting cars on fire in Los Angeles? He did it because his scumbag mother was about to be deported back to Germany for being a thief. He hates America, you see, for having the nerve not to want to keep a thief, who has 19 fraud counts against her in Germany, from becoming an American citizen. Well, now he’s going to spend many years as an American resident in jail before being kicked back to Germany. Like mother, like son.

Oh, there was a primary or something yesterday? Wake me when it’s over. Especially since I have no influence over any but the Virginia primaries.

Hamas would keep a skeletal presence in Syria to “book a seat in a post-Assad era,”" one diplomat said.

“Meanwhile, Hamas officials are on planes most of the time, bolstering ties with other countries like Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, Sudan, or in contact to explore new bases and not a sole base,” the diplomat added.

Arabs tend to have long memories. I don’t think the Syrians are going to forget how tight Hamas was with the Dorktator.

What, you mean it’s not okay to blame Israel for Arab anti-Semitism? The Obama administration is hurrying to disavow its ambassador’s words to a Jewish conference, where he said that Muslim anti-Semitism can be blamed on Israeli actions (like building settlements and not making peace with the Palestinians). And why is the administration backing off? Because of the reaction, not because of the words. Leon Panetta said essentially the same thing, in longer form. Only he blamed Israel for all the ills of the Middle East, basically.

Well, if the West armed the rebels, history wouldn’t repeat itself: Now the media is referring to the destruction of Hama during the 1980s, Syria’s last uprising, and saying that history is repeating itself. Not really. I no longer think Baby Assad will survive the Syrian uprisings. I think if he were going to massacre tens of thousands in a few short days, he’d have done so. It isn’t that he hasn’t got the will. I believe he does have it. But apparently, the world will no longer turn a blind eye to that kind of violence. At least, not in the Middle East, and not today. Darfur? Nobody cared. Rwanda? Puh-leeze.

The dual-loyalty charge, alive and well in the U.K.: So you’re a Labour member of Parliament, the more progressive party, the tolerant ones who believe in multiculturalism and all people being equal and human rights for all. But of course, there’s something known here as The Exception Clause, where we add the words “except for Jews” to statements like that, and you then can understand why this so-called liberal, progressive M.P. charged that Britain’s first Jewish ambassador to Israel can’t be loyal to the U.K. because he’s a Zionist.

Britain needed, he said, “someone with roots in the UK [who] can’t be accused of having Jewish loyalty”.

No, there’s no truth to the charge that anti-Semitism in polite society is growing by leaps and bounds.

First, Leon Panetta, Obama’s Defense Secretary:

“I understand the view that this is not the time to pursue peace, and that the Arab awakening further imperils the dream of a safe and secure, Jewish and democratic Israel. But I disagree with that view,” Panetta said.

How nice of him to disagree that Israel needs to be worried about Jew-hating Islamists that are taking over Egypt and other nations in the Middle East.

Once again, we get the tired old saw that Israel needs to “take risks” for peace.

He said Israel needed to take risks, including by breathing new life into moribund peace talks with Palestinians. When asked by a moderator what steps Israel needed to take to pursue peace, Panetta said: “Just get to the damn table.”

“The problem right now is we can’t get them to the damn table, to at least sit down and begin to discuss their differences,” Panetta said.

Not a word about the Palestinian refusal to sit down with Israel. Not a word about Mahmoud Abbas needing to take risks, or at least, responsibility, for not negotiating with Israel since, oh, Barack Obama took office.

Panetta said that while Israel is not solely responsible for its isolation, it could more actively attempt to reverse the trend: “For example, Israel can reach out and mend fences with those who share an interest in regional stability – countries like Turkey and Egypt, as well as Jordan,” he said.

Israel did reach out and try to mend fences. Turkey demanded an apology for the Mavi Marmara incident, the complete opening of the Gaza blockade–which would allow Hamas unlimited access to weapons–and financial compensation for the dead jihaidis. Israel was ready to say they were sorry the jihadis died (but not apologize), give the compensation, and not open the border. Turkey refused. It was all or nothing. So how, exactly, is Israel supposed to mend fences with a country that refuses to compromise? The same way, I suppose, that Israel can bring the Palestinians to the table–by surrendering. Not. Gonna. Happen.

Next up, the American ambassador to Brussels, an Obama appointee, told a Jewish conference that Arab anti-Semitism is not Jew hatred. No, it’s a reaction to Israeli policies.

A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Gutman said. He also argued that an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty will significantly diminish Muslim anti-Semitism.

Really? So, the Hamas charter, which contains references to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, is not traditional anti-Semitism, but an understandable reaction to the existence of Israel? Good to know.

Thankfully, the attendees had speakers with common sense immediately afterward.

The conference was attended by Jewish lawyers from across Europe. The legal experts at the event were visibly stunned by Gutman’s words, and the next speaker offered a scathing rebuttal to the envoy’s remarks.

“The modern Anti-Semite formally condemns Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust and expresses upmost sympathy with the Jewish people. He simply has created a new species, the “Anti-Zionist” or – even more sophisticated – the so-called ‘Israel critic,’” Germany attorney Nathan Gelbart said.

The ambassador, like Obama, lives in a world that does not really resemble ours.

Approached by Yedioth Ahronoth, the US envoy was asked whether Obama’s policy did not cause America to lose its influence in the region. Gutman responded by saying that the Arab world appreciates Obama following his speech in Cairo, referring to an address delivered by the president in 2009.

Yes, it totally appreciates Obama. It’s thanks to his policies that Islamists are running rampant in Egypt today, and dream of killing all the world’s Jews tomorrow. But that’s in reaction to Israel’s policies.

Speakers at the event delivered impassioned, hateful speeches against Israel, slamming the “Zionist occupiers” and the “treacherous Jews.” Upon leaving the rally, worshippers were given small flags, with Egypt’s flag on one side and the Palestinian flag on the other, as well as maps of Jerusalem’s Old City detailing where “Zionists are aiming to change Jerusalem’s Muslim character.”

Peter Wehner wondered recently if Obama’s claims about being the Most. Pro. Israel. President. EVAH! are delusional or deliberately lying. I’m going to go with delusional.

Update: And a timely essay on Muslim anti-Semitism and the reflexive blaming of Israel, by Richard Landes. H/T: Elder. (And check out this comment for the unadulterated anti-Semitism of a reader who sees no irony whatsoever in posting his bile on this article.)

The Iranian attack on the British embassy has brought out a UN Security Council (non-binding) resolution condemning the attack.

Unanimously.

Meaning Russia and China, too.

Yep. Some embassies are more equal than others.

Sarkozy is dancing as fast as he can: Days after calling Netanyahu a liar, he’s signing his notes “With friendship.” That’ll work. It’s not like Bibi will hold it against him or anything. Of course, the French will think it’s tres magnifique! Extra credit awesomeness: France’s ambassador to Israel’s is a Bigot. No, really. His name is Israel Christophe Bigot. I love it when I can’t make this stuff up.

This is why neo-Nazis aren’t very successful: The police are lifting fingerprints and DNA from 27 beer bottles left at the scene of a horrific anti-Semitic attack in Brooklyn the day after the anniversary of Kristallnacht. The anti-semitic bastards, taking a cue from their fellow anti-Semites in Europe, torched three cars and wrote anti-Semitic graffiti in one of the most Jewish neighborhoods in the country. And yet, they’re going to be caught fairly simply, because like all of their neo-Nazi brethren, they’re stupid. Leaving abundant numbers of fingerprints at the scene of the crime? Priceless.

Speaking of stupid: I don’t read the gossip mags much, but I have caught wind of this story. Some woman is claiming that Justin Bieber is her baby daddy. He denies ever having really met her. The awesomely stupid part of this story? If she really did have sex with him, as she says she did, she could be liable for rape charges. He was a minor at the time of the alleged tryst. (FWIW, I believe Bieber. The kid is all right in my eyes.)

Occupy death count: Three and rising. Close down the Obamavilles. They’re pits of festering filth, drug overdoses, and now murders. Yeah, they’re just like the Tea Party. Lice outbreaks, tuberculosis outbreaks, sexual assaults, regular assaults–yep, just like the Tea Party protests. And how much are they costing America’s cities? Millions. the double standard lives in Zucotti Park (and every Obamaville in America). FYI, our pathetic Occupy Richmonders were last seen trying to occupy the Canal Walk, a tourish area along the James that Richmond spent millions on several years ago. They’re talking about camping out in the mayor’s neighborhood. Don’t worry, the police will throw them out of there, too. Richmond isn’t like other cities. Then again, the editor of the Richmond Free Press apparently lives next door to the mayor. Hilarity may yet ensue, as he’s offered the occupier kiddies his backyard.

In fact, this story is full of holes.

First, Israel has decided not to attack Iran–a point I’m making due both to direct knowledge and direct statements, a few of them made publicly, by those involved in the debate. The reasons for this decision make sense but I won’t list them here to save your time.

Second, there is no new development to prompt such an attack. On the contrary, all of the reports have been about the slow pace of Iranian progress toward obtaining deliverable nuclear weapons. There is no urgency in such an operation.

Third, all the reasons for not attacking Iran are stronger than ever. Israel can expect little international support, the moves toward radicalism in Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, and Turkey (plus a heightened risk-taking by a shaky Syrian regime) make the environment for such an attack far more dangerous for Israel than a year or two ago. And again there is no vital incentive for launching such an attack.

Jackson Diehl says so, too.

In reality, Israel is unlikely to launch any attack without the support of the United States, which could easily be drawn into the regional conflict an air strike would trigger. Like the Israeli military establishment, the Pentagon opposes any such venture — and it’s hard to imagine President Obama signing on. If he acts in the coming weeks or months, Netanyahu would risk a rupture in the alliance that is the ultimate guarantor of Israeli security.

The new burst of speculation, like those before it, does serve a couple of purposes for Israel, however. It refocuses attention on the Iranian threat, and takes it away from the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations; it raises the pressure on the United States and its allies to increase sanctions and other nonmilitary pressure on Tehran.

I can’t see Obama signing on for this, either.

So there you have it, it’s unanimous. The Guardian’s story was effing unbelievable, right down to the “Israel controls the U.S.” bullshit:

Washington has been warned by Israel against leaving any military action until it is too late.

Western intelligence agencies say Israel will demand that the US act if it believes its own military cannot launch successful attacks to stall Iran’s nuclear programme. A source said the “Israelis want to believe that they can take this stuff out”, and will continue to agitate for military action if Iran continues to play hide and seek.

Do you see a bit of ZOG in that paragraph? I do. But then, it’s the Guardian, the most anti-Israel newspaper in the U.K.

To sum up: Don’t believe the hype. There will be signs if there ever is an attack on Iran. All of the major news media will break into whatever you’re watching with the news that Iran was attacked.

Seriously? Do they really think that Israel, the U.S., and the U.K. are going to telegraph an attack? Now that would be the dumbest move of all.

Erdogan ups the ante in demagoguery: Nice to see that Erdogan is taking Panetta’s suggestion to improve relations with Israeli seriously. He’s now accusing Israel of being a nuclear threat. Why? Because Israel has nuclear weapons and no one else in the Middle East does—at least not yet. Yeah, what a great NATO partner. What a perfect addition to the EU Turkey would make. Gee. I wonder why he’s going all Islamist on Israel? Hm. Let’s think… oh, that’s right. Because he is an Islamist. And this is his latest shtick. He gave an interview to Time magazine last week, where he bashed Israel. Then there are the ten questions, where he—you guessed it—bashes Israel. Watch Turkey’s fortunes decline as the Islamists take a stronger hold. Everywhere Islamism rises, civil liberties fall, and brutality occurs.

And now, the new Uzi Mahnaimi journalist: Long-time readers will know that I warn you to ignore everything you read by Uzi Mahnaimi, who first brought us the utter bullshit of the bogus “genetic bomb” that would target only Palestinians and leave Israelis unharmed. He also told us that Israel was imminently attacking Iran about half a dozen times. Nope, still not IAF jets dropping bombs on Iranian nukes. Well, we have the new Uzi Mahnaimi, and his name is Tony Karon. He’s not content with bashing Israel, he’s also passing along bullshit stories about Israel attacking Iran. Thankfully, not many people read newsmagazines anymore.