Comments on: The first draft of the Flytilla letter

By: Alisa

Alisa — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:48:09 +0000

The letter is hilarious. Love how they use sarcasm. Although the ‘original’ one was a joke in itself.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:06:48 +0000

I’ll bet you that letter ends up on other anti-Israel sites with a fake attribution and posted and read by anti-Israel types who think it’s real.

By: Yaniv Eidelstein

Yaniv Eidelstein — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:53:47 +0000

Of course I can prove its authenticity! I typed it myself!
;^)

By: MartinGugino

MartinGugino — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:02:12 +0000

What’s with the double spacing?
Possibly a forgery.

By: tla

tla — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:20:38 +0000

@aristeides I’m confused. So why are they flying to Israel? Everyone I know going to Palestinian cities – goes through the King Hussein crossing, exactly for the reason you stated.

Unfortunately for many of these so-called activists, Tel Aviv airport is in Israel, and as much as they’re shouting about Palestine being their final destination – Israel has all the right to prevent them from landing in ISRAEL.

By: aristeides

aristeides — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:22:19 +0000

TLA – the activists don’t want to go to Israel. Palestine is not Israel.

By: someone

someone — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:51:59 +0000

Yaniv:

Can you prove the authenticity of this letter?

By: tla

tla — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:14:31 +0000

It really makes me wonder what are the activists are standing for. Yniv Eidelstein looks for publicity, its a business thing, clear enough.

But the useful idiots who try to demonize Israel who is basically trying to defend itself, and support people who kill babies in their sleep and shoot rockets at neighborhoods for decades – them I cannot understand.

Why is it not clear why Israel doesn’t want you there? Why is it not clear that it Israel’s right not to want you there? They don’t have to give you explanation. They don’t need to reimburse you for your tickets. Its your problem. Not theirs. You’re not welcome there, deal with it. Just as your country may refuse entry anyone it doesn’t want – so does Israel.

By: Piotr Berman

Piotr Berman — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:58:19 +0000

I always suspected that Foreign Ministry has some staffers who translate Russian expletives (hard to render in English in all their glory, so this “first draft” is already second) into snide Hebrew and English.

By: Anonymous Moose

Anonymous Moose — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:16:20 +0000

Quite a good parody of the original letter, although the original is ridiculous enough to be a parody on itself: Palinesque, if you will.

I do agree that it’s inappropriate to compare Israel to a rapist: a rapist usually doesn’t kill.