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Thursday, March 11, 2010

International Consumerism Today

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:50 AM

An Israeli supermarket chain is using a spoof of surveillance footage showing the alleged assassins of a Hamas commander in a television advert.

The advert's fake grainy surveillance footage shows actors wearing elaborate disguises.

Dubai police released footage they said showed the assassins of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, some dressed for tennis, as they followed him through his hotel.

Israel's secret service is widely suspected of being behind the killing.

But the government says there is not enough proof that its agents were involved.

In the advert for Mahsanei Kimat Hinam shops, disguised customers prowl the supermarket's aisles and an actress wearing a wide-brimmed hat says she: "cannot admit to anything". The final line is: "We offer killer prices."

Advertising executive Sefi Shaked said the campaign was inspired by the original footage.

The inspiration:

Shooting down prices:

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When will people learn that some things are NOT FUNNY. This is VERY SERIOUS and nobody should mock or spoof something of such GREAT IMPORT. It is a shocking testament to the DEPRAVITY of modern society. Making jokes about such VERY SERIOUS topics should be ILLEGAL. I'll bet some comedian even makes jokes about JESUS.

Signed,
The League of the Perpetually Outraged

Posted by also on March 11, 2010 at 8:28 AM

Meh.

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on March 11, 2010 at 9:01 AM

Sounds like the Israeli version of a Vern Fonk ad.

Posted by Joe M on March 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM

An ITN segment on the ad itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdR1uHNkx…

Posted by Q*bert H. Humphrey on March 11, 2010 at 9:40 AM

Look at all the effort and trouble it takes several Israeli agents to kill one person. They've planned this for years. And Israeli agents are THE BEST. And we're supposed to believe that 19 Saudi's some of the most inept community organizers there are master minded 9-11! Pahleeze

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on March 11, 2010 at 10:00 AM

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Israel = Nazi Germany for the 21st century. Israel, the only country in the world the US will support for committing genocide. What next? An ad for McDonald's "satirizing" the lynching of Matthew Shephard?

Posted by Facts are terrible things on March 11, 2010 at 12:56 PM