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Reality and duelling parodies: Israel caves to YouTube Hitler rant about Israel's botched raid on Turkish aid ship, calls off blockade

 Well of course the lifting of the blockade was only partial, but I still found the following Hitler parody video (I noted this interesting genre earlier) both rather prescient and notable because of its unusual slant, placing Hitler as a parody spokesman for Israel:

[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzUDLF7L22U:550:0]

This looks like just another parody that someone posted two weeks ago, and only has 900 viewers or so. 

In a similar vein, there was a Hitler parody up that complained about the unavailability of parking in Tel Aviv; due to complaints YouTube took the English sub-titled version down (and cited a copyright violation complaint), but the Hebrew version remains up. A brief discussion of the parodies – and a copy of one in which Hitler despairs at being mocked by the parodies – is here. Apparently videos that have been removed for copyright reasons are backed up at www.youtomb.com.

There is a duelling parody that gained much more prominence than the one above; an editor from the Jerusalem Post arranged “We Con the World” – a full-blown parody of “We Are the World” that mocks the flotilla and gained attention after it was sent by members of the Israeli government press office to journalists; the government has since apologized. It was removed by YouTube, but is available here.

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