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Tuesday
Jun092009

'Arabs did to Israel what Borat did to Kazakhstan' - Haaretz - Israel News

By AuthorIssandr El Amrani |
'Arabs did to Israel what Borat did to Kazakhstan' - Haaretz - Israel News
Arab public relations efforts in Europe and the United States have cast Israelis in an inaccurate light, a top Israeli public relations official said on Tuesday. "The Arabs, our adversaries, have succeeded in doing to us what 'Borat' did for Kazakhstan", Ido Aharoni told the Knesset Defense and Security Committee on Tuesday, referring to the 2006 Sacha Baron Cohen film in which Cohen portrayed a Kazakh filmmaker touring the United States.

Innacurate my tender bottom: your image sucks because you suck.

DateJune 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM Comment2 Comments

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Jun 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM | Unregistered CommenterHossam

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