While Israeli elections never fail to cede a winner who loves apartheid, this year’s round, according to the LA Times, includes a party with another approach to ending the resistance.
Aleh Yarok, a party called “Green Leaf” in Hebrew, is running on the platform of legalizing pot in Israel on the basis that it will improve the security of the state.
In the group’s campaign video, the speaker–comedian Gil Kopatch–carries out a monologue with David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the newly minted and ethnically cleansed State of Israel in 1948. Claiming that Israel’s supply of hashish comes from Hamas and Hizballah, Israel’s enemies, the speaker then encourages a boycott by ‘making the wilderness flower’ with weed in the Negev.
But what of all the excess grass left in the hands of Hamas and Hizballah? “They’ll smoke it,” our aspiring politician tells us. “Because a good Arab is a calm Arab.”
Israel– the only place where even the stoner party is racist!
Tarboush tip: Kafr al-Hanadwa
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I support this concept completely. Israel can more than fill its consumer demand for hashish with a few acres of the good stuff, thereby denying criminals and terrorists badly needed funds.
In fact, this platform should be adopted by all Western powers.
Posted by Anonymous | February 1, 2009, 11:00 am“Because a good Arab is a calm Arab.”
Amen!
Posted by Anonymous | February 1, 2009, 11:04 amYou missed the point entirely. The guy is a known comedian in Israel, and his ad can’t be seen as anything but pure satire directed at the “normal” political ads screened here. He’s being sarcastic.
His whole campaign is a farce. In this specific ad, he’s not just having a monologue with Ben Gurion, he’s doing while siting ON the grave of Israel’s first prime minister, and smoking an actual joint. The ad is actually making fun at all the other political parties, and at the general war mood in Israel. I hope he gets elected.
Posted by Anonymous | February 1, 2009, 12:11 pmI can’t decide which is worse… even the stoner party is racist, or the only party that’s not racist is the stoner party.
Posted by Yaman | February 1, 2009, 2:55 pmTo turn the whole thing on its head, I’m sure the Palis would agree that a good Jew is a calm Jew.
Anyway, if the plan came into effect maybe Israel would be a new destination spot for stoners on vacation. Get baked, go to the religious spot of your choice, and have a kabob.
Posted by Green Flash | February 1, 2009, 8:15 pmOff topic, but thanks for the link to the Haifa Police ban on the memorial to George Habash. I translated it here:
http://nonarab-arab.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-israeli-democracy-banning.html
Posted by NonArab-Arab | February 1, 2009, 8:32 pmSupposedly there is a blockade of Gaza, starvation in Gaza, complete poverty in Gaza…
but someone forgot to tell these people
Posted by Anonymous | February 2, 2009, 7:32 amThe only good zionist is a decomposing one.
Posted by abraham | February 2, 2009, 8:22 amComplete silence and complicity by Kabob for Hamas crimes. I overheard Will say, referring to the Gazans, “Resistance forever. And the people? Let them eat dirt”.
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2009, 12:11 amOh, please… He’s a comedian. His goal is to make weed legal. In the U.S., people who argue for the legalization of marijuana point out that this will eventually help bring stability to Latin America. Is their goal to bring stability to Latin America? No, usually their goal is just to legalize marijuana. They just keep coming up with more and more added bonuses so they can convince more people.
In case you missed Kopatch’s joke, there IS a disgusting saying by some super radical right-wing groups, “A good Arab is a dead Arab.” It’s pretty gross. But HERE, Kopatch saying “A good Arab is a relaxed Arab,” is making fun of those radical idiots, while at the same time making fun of the entire situation.
“newly minted and ethnically cleansed State of Israel in 1948…” yikes. You could argue that Israel oppresses Palestinians today, but 1948 is a different story. Not that the Arab countries aren’t ethnically cleansed of Jews. What happens to a Jew who sets foot in Mecca, as opposed to a Muslim in Jerusalem…?
If you want your arguments to be credible, pick them carefully. Unfounded and irrelevant indignation about, for god’s sake, the stoner party that’s headed by a comedian and has never even gained one seat in the Knesset, is a little ridiculous.
Posted by Anonymous | February 13, 2009, 10:42 pm