Mocking the Left into Oblivion

(Israelnationalnews.com)

 

 

But if there was ever a doubt as to the greatness of Cohen, it is gone now that he has decided to make a public fool out of Yossi Alpher. The US-born Alpher was once an IDF intelligence officer and then a Mossad officer, and like so many Israeli intelligence officers he became a far-leftist of the sort so familiar in Israel. He used to be director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, then senior advisor to Ehud Barak, and has ties with far-leftist Peace Now.

 

These days he co-runs a far-leftist web site together with Palestinian terrorist Ghassan Khatib (ex-minister of labor in the Palestinian Authority and Vice President of Bir Zeit "University"), called Bitter Lemons. Khatib is a guy who thinks Hamas is moderate, although Alpher holds the same idea. Like all such collaborations between leftist Jews and Arabs, it is essentially pro-Arab and anti-Israel. It is also anti-American. Alpher's ideas about peace? "The United States should talk to Iran without preconditions and encourage Tehran to talk to Jerusalem and seek modes of coexistence before it is engulfed in war." The only good thing one can say about Bitter Lemons is that it is less extremist and anti-Semitic than most other leftist web sites. Alpher invented the "Alpher Plan" back in 1994 under which 89% of the West Bank would be turned over to the PLO to become a Palestinian terror state.

 

Sacha Cohen's new comedy character is a gay Austrian fashion freak named Bruno (see his photo above). Cohen set up Alpher and his Palestinian sidekick Khatib to be ridiculed by inviting them for an interview, signing them onto ironclad releases they could not wiggle out of (Cohen got sued a lot over his Borat interviews, which made people look stupid) and then filming them trying to answer really funny questions. Cohen asked them things like: "When will you Jews return the pyramids?" and asked why the militant group Hamas was named after the dip, hummus. Bruno complains to them that he had to throw his pita away cause it was dripping hummus, and adds, 'Your conflict is not so bad. Jennifer-Angelina is worse.'" The AP scooped the story, which was also carried in many other newspapers and magazines.

 

Alpher tried to prettify the situation and paint himself as a victim in his column at the leftist Jewish weekly Forward, where he is one of the newspaper's stable of leftist columnists. He reports how he sat there with a straight face and responded seriously to Bruno's questions, which included: “Vy don’t you Jews and Arabs settle the conflict with a time share on the land?” “Ven vill you Jews return the pyramids?” “Vy can’t Jews and Hindus get along?” Even Michael Handelzalts, the book editor at Israeli leftist daily Haaretz, has an Op-Ed in which he mocks the stupidity of Alpher and his sidekick.

 

Alpher disagrees about being shown to be stupid, cited in the Jerusalem Post as saying, "We ourselves were not being ridiculed - only the conflict that occupies and preoccupies us."

 

I have long believed that mocking leftists is far more effective than insulting them. They love it when they are accused of being traitors, unpatriotic, and supporting the enemy. But they can't stand being laughed at because they take themselves so seriously. There is a lesson in Cohen's antics for all of us in the Anti-Left trenches.