01 December 2011

A few cheap wisecracks on account of Iran

The first is related to Ynet article Israelis save drowning Iranians The headline gives you the gist of the article, save the locale: it happened in Thailand, more power to globalization. But the punch line of the article is still missing:

"When we told them we're Israelis they just got up and fled," Nimrod noted.
Next time, folks, check the passports of the people you are going to save...

Another Iran-related one (in Hebrew): Remember that recently expired Iranian general?


Yes, the one that pushed a few wrong buttons without listening to rocket scientists under his command... anyway, this general, Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam, left a will, it appears. In the will he demanded: "Write on my grave that here is buried a man who wanted to destroy Israel". I suspect that there is a mistake in that quote or, rather, in the translation: usually senior Iranian officers call our place "Zionist entity". 

But the request itself is clear and I totally support it:  everyone who wants to destroy Israel should follow in the late general's steps...

And here comes an Israeli angle:
Despite Meridor's belief that it "isn't right to expand on this topic," the minister admitted that in dealing with the Iranian threat, "there are countries who impose economic sanctions and there are countries who act in other ways."
That from our Intelligence Agencies Minister. Must have spent his intelligence already on all these agencies...

2 comments:

Dick Stanley said...

Reminds me of a video I saw a while back of an Israeli weightlifter winning an international award. The guy who came in second was an Iranian. So as the two of them (and a third guy whose nationality I forget) mount the two-level podium, the Israeli turns and shakes hands with the third place guy. Then he turns to shake the Iranian's hand. The Iranian ignores him. The Israeli guy shrugs and enjoys his win.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yes, self-preservation instinct kicks in in a situation like that, for sure.