Israel Repeals iPad Ban

SillySilly writes "The ban has been lifted: The Communications Ministry announced Saturday evening that starting Sunday it will allow Apple's iPad tablet computer into the country, following two weeks of confiscations and confusion."

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And the White House comments on Isreal ...

[Anonymous Coward]

from: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/04/national-security-adviser-jones-jews.html

National Security Adviser Jones: Jews Are Greedy Merchants

As the National Security Adviser, General James Jones is not known as a friend of the Jewish State. It was Jones who put together the team of Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski to meet with the President and advise him to impose a solution on Israel.

Earlier this week we may have gotten some insight into why Jones is not a fan of the Jewish Homeland. He was giving the key note speech at a Washington Institute For Near East Policy and started it out with a "Joke" that borders on anti-Semitic, teaching the crown that Jews are just greedy merchants in the same vein as Shakespeare's Shylock:

A Taliban militant gets lost and is wandering around the desert looking for water. He finally arrives at a store run by a Jew and asks for water. The Jewish vendor tells him he doesn't have any water but can gladly sell him a tie. The Taliban, the jokes goes on, begins to curse and yell at the Jewish storeowner. The Jew, unmoved, offers the rude militant an idea: Beyond the hill, there is a restaurant; they can sell you water. The Taliban keeps cursing and finally leaves toward the hill. An hour later he's back at the tie store. He walks in and tells the merchant: "Your brother tells me I need a tie to get into the restaurant."

According to the Jewish Forward

After the speech, two participants suggested, in private conversations with the Forward, that Jones' joke might have been inappropriate. After all, making jokes about greedy Jewish merchants can be seen at times as insensitive.

A prominent think-tank source who attended the event said the joke was "wrong in so many levels" and that it "demonstrated a lack of sensitivity." The source also asked: "Can you imagine him telling a black joke at an event of African Americans?"

Was the Joke Anti-Semitic? Well, the White House must have thought so. The White House transcript sent to reporters after the event conveniently began a couple of minutes into the speech. The video of the event posted on the Washington Institute Web site started right after the Joke, you can even hear the end of the laughter.

Its interesting that the same President that see racism in the legitimate actions of the Cambridge Police and the State of Arizona, hides the anti-Semitic prose of its National Security Adviser.

Israel rethinks iPad policy

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Policy regarding Palestinians still in effect.

For chrissakes...

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Look, I understand that we all think Israel is some kind of paranoid entity that uses its spy network as a primary weapon against its perceived enemies. But that simply isn't at all relevant here.

Israel doesn't turn over confiscated property to Mossad. Mossad can acquire what it needs by itself.

What Israel does do with confiscated property is turn it over to right-wing zealot settlers.

I'm no fan of what Israel does (or perpetuates by not doing) to the Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza, but don't try to pin the innocuous confiscation of iPads on some weirdo paranoid delusion about Mossad.

Re:For chrissakes...

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Which delusion?

Mossad as weapon?

Mossad has big budget?

Israel encourages settlers by giving them confiscated land?

I don't think you'll find anything delusional about my post. Maybe you need to consider your own biases.

Re:Trolls are not attracted to bait

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right. Discussion of humanitarian issues has no place on a technology site. We should all put aside our humanity when discussing Israel.

I totally understand you, man.

That's what I like about German pistols.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll hold this here Luger up to my head with 15 jews lined up behind me, and that German bullet will go through my skull and pass through all there's as well. Adolph killed many jews this way, it was his sacrifice in knowing that he himself was a jew that hated what his people were doing to the peaceful Germans. He adopted the noble spirit and walked as a Son among fellow sacrificing Aryans to rid their land of the foreign foe that tried to pierce the heart of Europe using international jews In many ways, Adolf can be thanked by fellow self-hating jewess whose own husbands were too cowardly to recreate a place for jews by deploying United Nations intelligence and agencies to insurrect the State of Israel against the borders of Palestine domain. Instead of thanking Adolf for wielding the rod of correction against their cannibal tendency, the jews cursed his name like a bunch of whiny sons and daughters of whores and bitches. The jews even were so cowardly, it took a woman to lord her prowess in the early moments of their belittled existence competing to Palestine. I've only seen one more instance of a sympathy-fuck that the world ever tolerated, and it was back in the Korean War of Communists versus the United States of south Korea.

Yea, I would sacrifice myself too, knowing the the world will suck more if I don't to my job right or not at all. You realy should see it through the eyes of the Germans walking in the shadow of Adolf Hitler. What kind of former jew named Adolf Hitler would ever hate his own kind so much as to beat them back with fire and the most bitter hatred, is because he knew the truth that he himself had been blessed by God for what few sins and knows that a jew is a manipulative bastard of inaction that spreads disease among the world to reap the benefits of societal decay to progress while others die from what they caused. Germany went down-hill in sodomy and moral decay ever since the jews were allowed into the country. Jews spread into the peaks of every institution not by skill but by monopolized monetary functions to establish bankruptcy receiverships and recoveries, to hop onto another franchise with the same vampyrical precision to destroy more industry.