Honest Reporting Invokes Their Inner Monty Python

Starring my friend Joe Hyams, other members of Honest Reporting, and some guy who looks like a mix between Doc from Back to The Future and Larry David.

Winning!

11 thoughts on “Honest Reporting Invokes Their Inner Monty Python”

  1. I love "Life of Brian" but why would you liken Israelis to the oppressive Romans? Not particularly a good fit if you ask me. More like the members of the People's Front of Judea and the fierce pride expressed by Brian himself when confronted by his mum on his questionable ancestory.

  2. Something about this clip did not work for me. I don't think it will influence minds or win the hearts of the general population who know little about Israel. The focus of the video would have been much better if it had brought in all the science and technology that Israel has created for the world. That is a far more positive contribution to sell than dragging out all those political gestures which had the effective impact of reinforcing their failure.

  3. The British could say the same kind of stuff about India before 1948, and the Americans about the West. Israel is being libelously characterized in the press, and the fact that they are responding to attacks against their civillian population by enemies that are determined to eliminate them should be stressed. But I don't think it's all that persuasive to point out the benefits of colonialism, which Israel doesn't really want to do anyway and got trapped into as security necessity.

    1. I don't think anyone could honestly describe Israel's situation with the Palestinians as 'colonialism'.

      On another point colonialism gets too much of a bad rap because people focus on the negatives, sometimes to the extent that they wilfully misinterpret historical events out of context and against differing standards (which is something we should be familiar with).

      The truth is that to analyse the past correctly we have to stop burying our heads in the sand and say that there were huge benefits to former colonies under colonialism that many countries still feel the effects of today.

  4. I liked it, despite not being a Monty Python fan (I think Monty Python leaves nothing sacred, and is a window into Britain’s present downward spiral).

    It makes for a fun watching for anyone who’s seen The Life of Brian. However, it won’t make the case for the rightness of Jewish nationalism. As others have said, there’s a suggestion made that we are colonial occupiers here, like the Romans and the Brits. But in truth we Jews are the indigenous Palestinians, whereas the Arabs are the colonial occupiers here.

    Another thing is I don’t think it’s in Israel’s interest to portray eagerness for peace. The Arab imperialists see it as weakness (as they do for appeasement everywhere, just like the German imperialists of the previous century), and the Marxists demand “proof” of our willingness to make peace by conceding everything—lands, demographic safety, exclusive national political rights, you name it—we have gained and built here.

    I recognize this clip as satire, but far too many Israeli Jewish policymakers follow its line for real in their thinking. That’s how we get the situation that Turkey can send a flotilla of Islamic terrorists to our shores and, when Erdoggydroppings dares to demand an apology to our soldiers for giving the terrorists far less than what was coming to them, craven appeasers like Barak say we ought to apologize—for “pragmatic reasons,” of course.

    As a double hat-tip to our host, I’ll say this current course of apologizing and appeasing is a fruit of the “Let the Wookie win” philosophy. But C-3PO had good reason to worry about Chewie tearing his arms out, while we’re more in the situation of George McFly, to whom future mayor Goldie Wilson said, “If you let them walk over you now, they’ll be walking over you all your life” after Biff and his gang bullied him in the cafe. George McFly gave a pragmatic answer: “They’re bigger than me.” Which, at least for Biff, was right. But when he knocked Biff out with a single punch in the end, all his future turned for the better.

    1. What kind of world do we live in when a perfectly reasonable gentleman, such as yourself, would actually prefer to employ "Star Wars" or, even worse, "Back To The Future" imagery to comment on Israel's current political predicament over Monty Python sketch comedy rich in satiric gold nuggets such as this? This is as inexplicable as Mr. Neutron, upon winning a Kellogg's Corn Flakes jingle competition, contemplating accepting as his prize "all the ice cream he could eat" over the money because, in his words, "I can eat enormous quantities of ice cream."

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