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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=Undisclosed-recipients:
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 08, 2010 1:53 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Israel forced to apologise for YouTube spoof of Gaza
flotilla</DIV></DIV>
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pubdate="" datetime="2010-06-06T22:44BST">Sunday 6 June 2010 22.44 BST</TIME>
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<P
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Israeli government has been forced to apologise for circulating a<A
title="spoof video mocking activists"
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg">spoof video mocking
activists</A> aboard the <A title="More from guardian.co.uk on Gaza"
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href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gaza">Gaza</A> flotilla, nine of who
were shot dead by Israeli forces last week.</P>
<P
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YouTube clip, set to the tune of the 1985 charity single We Are the World,
features Israelis dressed as Arabs and activists, waving weapons while singing:
"We con the world, we con the people. We'll make them all believe the IDF (<A
title="More from guardian.co.uk on Israel"
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href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/israel">Israel</A> Defence Force) is
Jack the Ripper."</P>
<P
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continues: "There's no people dying, so the best that we can do is create the
biggest bluff of all."</P>
<P
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Israeli government press office distributed the video link to foreign
journalists at the weekend, but within hours emailed them an apology, saying it
had been an error. Press office director Danny Seaman said the video did not
reflect official state opinion, but in his personal capacity he thought it was
"fantastic".</P>
<P
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spokesman Mark Regev said the video reflected how Israelis felt about the
incident. "I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny," he
said. "It is what Israelis feel. But the government has nothing to do with
it."</P>
<P
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clip features a group led by the Jerusalem Post's deputy managing editor
Caroline Glick, wearing keffiyehs and calling themselves the Flotilla Choir. The
footage is interspersed with clips from the recent Israeli raid on the
Gaza-bound aid ship, the Mavi Marmara.</P>
<P
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clip has been praised in Israel, where the mass-circulation daily Yediot
Aharonot said the singers "defended Israel better than any of the experts".</P>
<P
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Didi Remez, an Israeli who runs the liberal-left news analysis blog Coteret,
said the clip was "repulsive" and reflected how out of touch Israeli opinion was
with the rest of the world. "It shows a complete lack of understanding of how
the incident is being perceived abroad," he said. Award-winning Israeli
journalist Meron Rapoport said the clip demonstrated prejudice against Muslims.
"It's roughly done, not very sophisticated, anti-Muslim – and childish for the
government to be behind such a clip," he said.</P>
<P
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similar press office email was sent to foreign journalists two weeks ago,
recommending a gourmet restaurant and Olympic-sized swimming pool in Gaza to
highlight Israel's claim there is no humanitarian crisis there. Journalists who
complained the email was in poor taste were told they had "no sense of
humour".</P>
<P
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week, the Israel Defence Force had to issue a retraction over an audio clip it
had claimed was a conversation between Israeli naval officials and people on the
Mavi Marmara, in which an activist told soldiers to "go back to Auschwitz". The
clip was carried by Israeli and international press, but today the army released
a "clarification/correction", explaining that it had edited the footage and that
it was not clear who had made the comment.</P>
<P
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Israeli army also backed down last week from an earlier claim that soldiers were
attacked by al-Qaida "mercenaries" aboard the Gaza flotilla. An article
appearing on the IDF spokesperson's website with the headline: "Attackers of the
IDF soldiers found to be al-Qaida mercenaries", was later changed to "Attackers
of the IDF Soldiers found without identification papers," with the information
about al-Qaida removed from the main article. An army spokesperson told the
Guardian there was no evidence proving such a link to the terror
organisation.</P>
<P
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the debate over accounts of the flotilla raid continues, Israel is facing more
boycotting. In the past week, three international acts, including the US rock
band the Pixies, have cancelled concerts in Tel Aviv.</P>
<P
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authors Alice Walker and Iain Banks have backed the boycott campaign, with Banks
announcing his books won't be translated into Hebrew. Dockworker unions in
Sweden and South Africa have refused to handle Israeli ships, while the UK's
Unite union just passed a motion to boycott Israeli companies.</P>
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This article was amended on 7 June 2010. The original referred to Didi Remez as
a female. This has been corrected.</P></DIV></DIV></SPAN>
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