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Creepy Ad Watch

By The Daily Dish
Jul 23 2009, 2:32 AM ET

by Chris Bodenner

A commercial for Cellcom, an Israeli cellphone carrier:

The Daily What writes:

The commercial’s tagline, “what, after all, do we all want? To have a little fun,” only serves to make this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea even worse. Back to the drawing board with you, Cellcom. And no more associating the word “fun” with the plight of millions.

Haaretz has more, including a retaliatory spoof:

A video recently posted on YouTube has tried to reenact the game in reality, and found that the result could not be further removed from the situation on the ground: when the Palestinians kick the ball to the other side of the fence, what they get in return is a salvo of tear gas grenades.

Video after the jump:



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