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Israel: Website mocks John Kerry with 'porcu-shine' video | Israel: Website mocks John Kerry with 'porcu-shine' video |
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Right-wing groups in Israel have set up a website portraying US Secretary of State John Kerry as an unwanted salesman, peddling inappropriate solutions to people's problems, it seems. | |
The parody site shows a lookalike promoting John Kerry Solutions Ltd and coming up with half-baked solutions which end in disaster, The Times of Israel reports. | |
A video shows a Hebrew-speaking "Kerry" suggesting a man stuck on the toilet without paper uses a porcupine instead. "Wipe, don't gripe," Kerry tells him. After the "porcu-shine" incident, the advice goes from bad to worse, and the man ends up unemployed and begging in the street. | |
The Jerusalem Post says the site - which dismisses American efforts to create a "two-state" solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict - is the work of several groups, including the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea and Samaria, MyIsrael and the Binyamin Regional Council. | The Jerusalem Post says the site - which dismisses American efforts to create a "two-state" solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict - is the work of several groups, including the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea and Samaria, MyIsrael and the Binyamin Regional Council. |
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has welcomed Washington's push towards a two-state solution, but Yigal Delmonti, of one of the groups behind the website, told The Jerusalem Post: "Our deep friendship with the US does not obligate us to cave under pressure and to accept solutions that would endanger the state of Israel." | |
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