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      ‘We Con the World’ Big Hit on YouTube with 1.3 Million Clicks

      The “We Con the World” spoof of the Flotilla attackers has passed the 1.3 million mark on YouTube. The government sent it to media by mistake.
      By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
      First Publish: 6/7/2010, 12:17 PM / Last Update: 6/7/2010, 2:19 PM

      The “We Con the World” spoof of the Flotilla attackers has passed the 1.3 million mark on YouTube after making the rounds on dozens of web sites and blogs. The Government Press Office apologized to foreign media for accidentally sending it on its email list as if it were an official PR piece. Complaints were heard about the line "There are no dead bodies" in the song from viewers that did not realize that it does not refer to the fatalities on the flotilla, but  is a spoof on the reasons the flotilla was sent, one of which is that it is a long time since Israel invaded Gaza and they could claim civilian deaths. Click here to see the video on YouTube.

      GPO director Donald Seaman explained that it was sent out along with hundreds of emails it distributes daily and that the spoof “in no way represent the official policy of either the Government Press Office or of the State of Israel. This was a private video so it was not something that we could send out. We have corrected the mistake.”

      “We Con the World” is five-minute satirical song performed by people dressed up as flotilla terror activists and “peace activists,” some of them appearing as Arabs and imitating an Arab accent.

      IDF clips of the flotilla attackers assaulting unarmed Navy commandos occasionally appear between views of the performance.

      The video was produced by the Latma satirical news web site. Using the tune for “We are the World," the performers wave knives and sing the following lyrics:

      Stanza I

      When we need to make a show

      For the world, the Web and CNN

      There’s no people dying,

      so the best that we can do

      Is create the greatest bluff of all

      We must go on pretending day by day

      That in Gaza, there’s crisis, hunger and plague

      Coz the billion bucks in aid won’t buy their basic needs

      Like some cheese and missiles for the kids.

      Refrain:

      We’ll make the world

      Abandon reason

      We’ll make them all believe that the Hamas

      Is Momma Theresa

      We are peaceful travelers

      With guns and our own knives

      The truth will never find its way to your TV

      Stanza II

      Ooooh, we’ll stab them at heart

      They are soldiers, no one cares

      We are small, and we took some pictures with doves

      As Allah showed us, for facts there’s no demand

      So we will always gain the upper hand

      Refrain:

      We’ll make the world

      Abandon reason

      We’ll make them all believe that the Hamas

      Is Momma Theresa

      We are peaceful travelers

      We’re waving our own knives

      The truth will never find its way to your TV

      Stanza III

      If Islam and terror brighten up your mood

      But you worry that it may not look so good

      Well well well well don’t you realize

      You just gotta call yourself

      An activist for peace and human aid

      Refrain:

      We’ll make the world

      Abandon reason

      We’ll make them all believe that the Hamas

      Is Momma Theresa

      We are peaceful travelers

      We’re waving our own knives

      The truth will never find its way to your TV

      We con the world

      We con the people

      We’ll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper

      We are peaceful travelers

      We’re waving our own knives

      The truth will never find its way to your TV