The parody: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=5305 Anyone remember Pierre Salinger? http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-6014-7-1427924.html --- http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110002948 BY JAMES TARANTO Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:52 p.m. EST Charles Johnson's excellent Little Green Footballs blog published a parody last week, a story from "Al-Jee'ef" that "reported" on an Arab League statement denouncing the " 'illegal Zionist occupation' of Earth orbit." (The joke referred to a real news story, on Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, now aboard the space shuttle Columbia.) There was no such Arab League statement, but Ha'aretz, the newspaper sometimes called the New York Times of Israel, published a headline on its Web site: "Arab League condemns NASA inclusion of Israeli astronaut as 'first step in illegal Zionist occupation of space.' (News Agencies)" Today LGF notes that an article by Israel's ambassador to France, which appears in the French-language Guysen Israel News, also cites the parody as if it were on the level. We almost can't blame the Israelis for falling for this; after all, such a statement by the Arab League would be no more insane than typical Arab politics. The Jerusalem Post reports that Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority has named a soccer tournament after Abdel Baset Odeh, the Hamas terrorist who murdered 30 Jews in last year's Passover massacre. Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. It's a good thing the Arabs don't play real football, or this Sunday we might be watching the Raiders- Martyrs Super Bowl. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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