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August 7th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Wow. I guess I either have to learn Hebrew or Arabic. It looks like it is funny though. I was considering having some of my coworkers translate, but frankly, I don’t think they’d have a sense of humor about it. If it is critical about Arabs at all, they probably wouldn’t like it.
August 7th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Melissa,
There is no humor in it not worth translating, are we suppose to laugh at this cheap humor?
*sticking my fingure in my mouth*
August 7th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
If Twosret doesn’t like it, it must be really good. SM, please translate.
August 7th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Yes SM translate so maybe only maybe louise will be ashamed of her comments.
August 7th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
It may be worth noting two things:
1)Yatzpan is known as “low humor central” in Israel.
1)This clip isn’t even near being actual- there is a reference to Mubarak talking on the phone with Arafat, and to the time being near Hanuka, both are anachronisms.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
it’s pretty old (he is being asked about arafat there), and still not very funny.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
SM you need to get some new readers, namely some new readers with a sense of humour! Yatzpan is a clown, nothing more, stop analyzing everything and giggle once in a while!
August 7th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
The problem is he didn’t make me laugh and I hate the guts of Mubarak so what do you say to that air head Moaz?
August 7th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Lol once again i say you should lighten up
August 7th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
It is very old, and I guess you haven’t heard at the time, but Mubarak watched this and was really offended. Caused a whole diplomatic scandal over this. Check this out: http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/june01/israel.html.
BTW Yatzpan does the same to all the Israeli politicians too.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
crap parody. I don’t know if it’s funnier for the jewish side because we don’t know the questions being posed as they;re in hebrew. I like Mubarak, personally think he’s in an awfully tight situation and he’s damned whatever he does.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Ok let us exchange some Jewish Vs. Egyptian jokes….would that prove to you that I am not upset lol
I recall this guy who came on T.V. and was telling stories about how Israeli soldiers and Egyptian soldiers were having fun before 1973 as they bored to hell and were doing nothing so they would throw jokes on each other and insult each other back and forth to pass time.
The jokes and insults he said from both sides cracked me up, so sad that we can’t remain friendly and give up our guns once and for all!
So do you have a joke you wanna tell Mr. lighten up my Ass?!
August 7th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Maoz, not everybody will laugh at every joke- I love to laugh, indeed, for me human is defined as “the mammal that laughs”, and I still don’t much like Yatzpan.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Clear,
Shut it !
or no Molokhia for you lol 
August 7th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
hey im paid to say this stuff….bel roh bel dam
August 7th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Crap parody indeed. Not much better in the Hebrew, either. Yatzpan is not the lowest of the low, not by a long shot, but he’s pretty low.
August 7th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Clear, you sound familiar do I know you ?
August 7th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
yatzpan is really, really talented. I remmember things he did 10 years ago, he was fantastic. even now he does great impressions, but he chooses a line of humor that’s not only low (I usally like low) but also blunt and stupid.
I think he just really enjoys cursing in arabic on prime time.
August 7th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
“Oh, you see how they condescend to us with their subtitles!”
Oh, wrong clip. NM.
August 7th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
RocketRay,
Now I rememeber that one. It was funny indeed.
August 7th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Sandmonkey,
You Arabs sound so god-awful stupid when you talk your Arabic. What a missed up language. Next time, don’t link to a video unless they are talking English. I thought that A-Rab was gonna hock a lugie.
August 7th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
Here is a sketch from other Israeli satiric show, called “Eretz nehederet” (wonderful country). Its in hebrew with english subtitles, not about Mubarak or politics, just so you know Yatspan is not the best we’ve got.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyKgkV-YIRk
August 7th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Louise: If Twosret doesn’t like it, it must be really good. SM, please translate.
Here here!! Comedy preference is a matter of personal taste…
August 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Leonid that was funny
Reminds me very much of Starbucks and other elitist coffee shops
August 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Hot Camaro
Whats up with the Arab insults, geez. I like arabic, specifically Egyptian Arabic, and there really arent that many KHAH sounds, I think there is more in German actually.
August 8th, 2006 at 1:51 am
and Hebrew Shobrawy
August 8th, 2006 at 2:33 am
Okay. I don’t know about Yatzpan and Mubarak, but here’s Joel Stein and anti-semitism. Definitely worth a read.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1223357,00.html
August 8th, 2006 at 2:46 am
“The first thing we have to do is drop the Chosen People™ marketing bit. It’s not working. Not only is it not scaring people off as it was designed to do, but it comes off as sort of arrogant. I’m suggesting we change our official slogan to Just One of the Guys™ or the People Who Believe in Most of Your Bible™ or even the People Who, If History Is a Guide, Are Not Among God’s Favorites.™ We’ll need to get Karl Rove involved.”
Good link lol
August 8th, 2006 at 3:05 am
Jon and Jason,
The war in Lebanon is making people so upset believe me, I think it is a grave mistake and will destroy a lot of relationships between Israelis and reasonable arabs. I know you might get upset at me but the trust me the longer Israel stays in Lebanon the more hate they will create which doesn’t help anyone.
I don’t think the God of Jews will approve of occupation, killing innocents, war and destruction, I don’t think any God will be part of this insanity. So whether you were chosen or not
I think the war is a bad choice.
August 8th, 2006 at 3:06 am
How is Yatzpan’s Arabic? I really don’t know the language but his accent sounds OK. (Yatzpan’s parents are from Iraq.)
August 8th, 2006 at 3:38 am
I doubt G-d really wants anyone to kill anyone.
Here’s my peace proposal:
Everybody go back to whichever side of the line they belong on.
Everybody stop threatening other people.
Everybody stop inciting their young’uns to hate.
Everybody has to control their own territory, or get someone to help them, if they need help.
Political prisoners get returned. People in prison because of an actual crime they committed serve out their sentence, then get returned. The dude in prison for crushing the skull of a 4-year-old girl with his rifle butt does not get released. Not now, not ever.
No sneaky paying someone else to do the dirty work that you agreed not to do.
No forcing anyone to believe or practice a particular religion.
No threatening any journalists for publishing something you don’t like (but journalists aren’t allowed to make stuff up and pass it off as truth).
Everybody agrees to allow one another into international organizations (e.g. the International Red Cross, the Asian Football Confederation, the UN Security Council, etc.), and will stop acting like spoiled children when their respective football teams play, or whatever.
There it is. The BrooklynJon Peace Proposal. Feel free to add to it.
Twosret, I’m sure the god of the Jews is not into all this killing and stuff. Quite a few Muslims seem to think the god of the Muslims is. But then, it’s supposed to be the same god, so I wonder who has it wrong? Or did he just say different things to different people?
August 8th, 2006 at 3:46 am
Oh, and what to do with Sheba? It might have justly belonged to Lebanon in a perfect world, but to give it back now would just promote the sort of hijinks that got Israel and Lebanon into this trouble to begin with. So here are a couple of ideas.
Turn it into a nature preserve in which no people are allowed, ever. Not even Birkenstock-wearing peace-loving kumbaya-singing hippies. Just plants and animals. Forever.
Give it to Disney, and let them turn it into a theme park, a la Disneyworld. Profit would be split three ways: Israel, Lebanon, and Disney. Yes, they would give up two-thirds of their profit, but they would pay no rent.
Give it to the Druze. Let ‘em have their own state. It would be bigger than Liechtenstein, I think.
August 8th, 2006 at 3:53 am
Twosret those are the same people that were protesting a bunch of editorial cartoons too.. I really don’t think that Israel is too worried about a few more Arabs hating them.. they just want the threat on their border gone.
They can live with a hostile nation like Syria because Syria at least isn’t causing threat of immediate harm to Israelis on Israels soil.
It would be nice if this never happened but it did happen and still is happening.
Now are those people gonna stop hatin Israel if it ends tomorrow rather than next week. That’s the relevant question now.
What if at the end of this all, Lebanon is made stronger. And Israel is made more secure. Are those people still going to hate Israel because of all this or will their opinion go back to where it was before this started.
August 8th, 2006 at 3:56 am
Everybody stop inciting their young’uns to hate.
That was a key part of the Oslo Accords. Did the PLO aka PA implement this?
What are you prepared to do if one side, like the PA/PLO, doesn’t?
It’s easy to say these things for peace. Not so easy to implement them.
Just as you can’t force someone to say quit smoking, you can’t force someone to change their beliefs and attitudes. (Well not without drastic measures that most would call crimes against humanity etc)
August 8th, 2006 at 4:05 am
Twosret, Hebrew isn’t as guttural as Arabic, although I hear that it used to be.
August 8th, 2006 at 4:26 am
oops! pushed the wrong button……ok back to Molokhia
August 8th, 2006 at 4:32 am
Jason,
I’m well aware. It’s just a proposal for Twosret. We’d need a deus ex machina to force it to work. Maybe the French.
But that no incitin’ clause becomes a big bugaboo. Cuz some people just love to hate. Or, more to the point, without hate, Nasrallah would be flipping burgers for a living.
August 8th, 2006 at 4:50 am
SM,
What exactly have you done to (with) Twosret? She seems to have calmed down a bit since she met you…
August 8th, 2006 at 7:08 am
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August 8th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
hot camaro, which one’s your flag so i can fish it out of my flag cabinet and proceed to burn it…joke…it’s our national sport, what can i say
Hot camaro, the arabic on there was not clear but Egyptian arabic is the most beautiful language to listen to after french. It’s so lovely and musical….
Jewish people, i think we’d win hands down based on the link posted above. You keep saying yatpak or whatever he is is not funny, well show us what is!
(did someone say molokhia
twosret… yeah sure you know me, well you don’t invite complete strangers round for dinners do you?)
August 10th, 2006 at 1:14 am
Clear,
So many single people on this site that wants home made food
Maybe I should open a Molokhia store online 
August 31st, 2006 at 5:07 pm
it is so lame. Mubarak is much better than that!!!