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Israeli satellite TV has a new star - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
By Sara Miller, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: yes satellite 

Israel's satellite company Yes has adopted a new ally in its war on cable rival HOT - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

A new commercial for the company shows Ahmadinedjad - who in real life has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel - addressing the Iranian nation.



"My brothers," says the mock Iranian president in a speech broadcast through loudspeakers across the country, "the uranium is in our hands and after Monday it will be goodbye to Israel."

Unexpectedly, the Iranian leader's supporters - dressed in Shiite religious garb - take exception to the speech, dismayed at the prospect of missing their favorite Israeli television series.

"What are you talking about?" asks one of his followers. "It's the last episode of Danny Hollywood on Monday."

The declaration of Iranian president's intent to destroy Israel is met with riots and the police are deployed to control protests which suddenly take the form of a big budget musical.

The commercial, produced by advertising company McCann Erickson, is entirely a parody of "Cazablan," a hit Israeli musical of the 1960s.
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  1.   funny and tastefull 15:40  |  anti-racist 10/06/08
  2.   keep these up better then their cartons great humor always wins 16:30  |  ralph 10/06/08
  3.   start a contest world wide with mad ahmadinejad the center focus 16:31  |  ralph 10/06/08
  4.   typical trash israeli humour 16:36  |  benny 10/06/08
  5.   Jewish sense of humor: Gotta love it! 16:41  |  NYC Catholic 10/06/08
  6.   A Star is Bombed! What a Magnificent BOMB! 16:44  |  Magnify 10/06/08
  7.   If Ridicule Can Kill, Ahmadinejad Would Be Dead 17:03  |  massaraksh 10/06/08
  8.   Humor is fine, but where is the decency? 17:24  |  S. Dokle 10/06/08
  9.   Hilarious! 17:26  |  lakshmi 10/06/08
  10.   Funny Commercial TV 17:48  |  Augusto Noronha 10/06/08
  11.   #4 Benny, Lighten up, already! 17:49  |  Itzik 10/06/08
  12.   Lakshmi 17:57  |  The Gentile 10/06/08
  13.   LOL! 18:13  |  Sadiq M 10/06/08
  14.   Benny #4 18:22  |  Rozz 10/06/08
  15.   You gotta love YES 18:40  |  JR 10/06/08
  16.   Sadiq, if you liked that one, check this out 19:15  |  C 10/06/08
  17.   Not funny. israel is out of their mind, as Brother Nathanael says 19:33  |  Yaakov Sullivan 10/06/08
  18.   no wonder mollahs hate jews 21:29  |  marg bar yahoodzadeh 10/06/08
  19.   im sorry i had a bad day 21:33  |  benny 10/06/08
  20.   He has a use after all 22:34  |  Lourdes 10/06/08
  21.   Sullivan, who did this to you? 22:51  |  Daniel 10/06/08
  22.   Benny # 4- party pooper 00:13  |  ChanahS 11/06/08
  23.   I posted it to an Iranian forum, they love it 00:22  |  Iranian guy 11/06/08
  24.   outsider 01:30  |  Di, the doubter 11/06/08
  25.   Maybe humor is the way to defeat ahmadinejad? 02:29  |  Nancy 11/06/08
  26.   Yaakov Sullivan- seriously dude... 03:28  |  gay guy 11/06/08
  27.   IDaniel in our theater in NY we play it much better 03:46  |  Yaakov Sullivan 11/06/08
  28.   WOW 04:04  |  Stranger 11/06/08
  29.   Making fun of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 06:43  |  Henry Jalali 11/06/08
  30.   Making fun of Mahmoud Ahadinejad (ANN) 06:50  |  Henry jalali 11/06/08
  31.   THIRD attempt at correcting Ha`Aretz 11:53  |  Ari ben Yisrael 11/06/08
  32.   # 17 JACKOFF LOL HA HA HA 15:58  |  petra 11/06/08
  33.   # 30 IS IT OK TO LAUGH HIM TO DEATH? 15:59  |  petra 11/06/08
  34.   Funny ad!! 19:16  |  Nima 16/06/08
  35.   Mahmoud Ahmadinejad commercial 12:54  |  Jos van Klaveren 06/08/08
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