We Con the World

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We Con the World (we kidding the world) is a published in May 2010 video clip of Israeli satire group Latma , the Friedensflotilla Gaza mocked. The video is a spoof of the well-known Michael Jackson song We Are the World from 1985.

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The song parodies the intentions of the Turkish activists on the Mavi Marmara and deals with the propagandistic exploitation of the Ship-to-Gaza incident . The video adopts the melody and style of the We Are the World video , with the actors imitating the weapons and stereotypes of the individual actors in the convoy with different disguises. Lines like We'll make the world abandon reason / We'll make them all believe that the Hamas is Momma Theresa, As Allah has shown us / For facts there's no demand (We teach the world to be rational, and make them believe Hamas is Mother Theresa, as Allah showed us, there is no need for reason) be with the Idhbah al-Yahud sung in Arabic by the captain  /اذبح اليهود / iḏbaḥ al-yuhūd  / 'slaughter the Jews' contrasts.

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The video was produced by the American-Israeli journalist Caroline Glick , who also works for the Jerusalem Post and Latma TV . The conservative Center for Security Policy is one of the sponsors . Glick also appears on the chorus.

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The Iranian state television complained about the video. The short-term linking of the video on a page of the Israeli Foreign Ministry created a diplomatic scandal. Eileen Read , a journalist for the Huffington Post , called for Glick to be fired, describing the video as "distasteful and blatantly racist."

The video is now available with a number of different subtitles, for example in French and Italian.

In July 2010 Latma produced another video in which they parodied the Beach Boys song Fun Fun Fun and instead sang “Guns Guns Guns” (creak, creak, creak).

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  1. ↑ Flotilla Choir: 'We Con the World' , Tzippe Barrow, June 4, 2010, Christian Broadcasting Network.
  2. ↑ Martin Barillas, Parody video mocks the deadly Gaza Flotilla ( memento of June 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), June 4, 2010.
  3. ↑ a b PR blunder ( memento of the original from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Israeli government's press office sends Flotilla incident parody video to journalists Friday, June 4, 2010, BNO News. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wireupdate.com
  4. ↑ a b Israel apologizes for sending link to flotilla parody ( Memento June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Liz Goodwin, Yahoo News.
  5. ↑ a b c "Israel apologises for spoof video mocking Gaza flotilla" BBC, June 7, 2010.
  6. ^ A b Israeli "Newscast" Satirizes Raid Critics , June 4, 2010, Dan Raviv.
  7. ↑ Christian Stöcker: Gaza-Aid Fleet: Propaganda-Satire embarrasses Israel's government (Gaza Aid Flotilla: Propaganda Satire embarrasses Israeli Government) . In: Der Spiegel , June 5, 2010. 
  8. ^ Robert Mackey: Israelis Explain, and Mock, Flotilla Clash . In: New York Times , June 4, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2010. 
  9. ^ Israeli government office links to video mocking flotilla , CNN.
  10. ↑ a b "Israel forced to apologize for YouTube spoof of Gaza flotilla; Israeli government press office distributed video link featuring Arabs and activists singing" , Rachel Shabl, The Guardian, June 6, 2010.
  11. ↑ a b "Israel thumbs nose at world anger, 6 June 2010 .
  12. ↑ Israeli excuses na pr-blunder .
  13. ↑ Gaffe di Israele "video farsa sulla strage della nave" La Stampa June 4, 2010.
  14. ↑ Video : "farsa di Israele sui pacifisti Si intitola 'Flotilla-We con the world' (Flottiglia, noi inganniamo il mondo)".
  15. ↑ Video choc. 'Flotilla, Noi inganniamo il mondo' un insulto ai 19 morti pacifisti. La satira israeliana indigna la Rete , Saturday 5th June 2010, di Francesco Bonazzi, Agora Magazine.