Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008

Nissan orders Israeli ally to pull commercial.
JERUSALEM (Kyodo) - Nissan Motor Co. has ordered its Israeli business ally to immediately stop airing a television commercial depicting Arab oil barons angered at the high fuel efficiency of a Nissan car, officials of the automaker said Thursday.

“The commercial was produced by a local automobile distributor based on its own judgment, and Nissan Motor has nothing to do with the commercial,” a Nissan spokesman in Japan said.

The commercial depicts wealthy Arab oil barons becoming so enraged at a fuel-efficient Nissan Tiida that one of them kicks the car, bangs on the hood and windshield and heaps abuse on the vehicle.

The major Israeli paper Haaretz, in its online edition, showed video footage of a news program on Saudi Arabia’s MBC TV that quoted a Saudi representative as saying that Persian Gulf states may boycott Nissan unless it apologizes.

Another major Israeli paper, the Jerusalem Post, quoted a public relations official working for Nissan in Israel as saying the commercial was a humorous one and should be enjoyed by both Israelis and Arabs.

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We, at www.SustainabiliTank.info are compelled to say - “This is elemental - Watson” - the UN runs its DPI exactly in this same fashion thanks to the Japanese USG, Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka, and an Egyptian caretaker of Arab interests, Mr. Ahmad Fawzi, Director of the News and Media Division, at the UN since the days of the Egyptian UNSG, as his right hand.

We Hope the Saudis will forgive now Nissan for the Israelis’ Transgressions. At the UN bringing up questions that illuminate some Saudi, Oil Producers, or Arab propaganda will be met by anulling the correspondent’s accreditation.

That is how you get a UN that speaks a lot about climate change but has yet to come up with any policy what-so-ever. The Saudi’s and their men and women at the UN will not allow tires to be kicked.

When a Japanese Spokesperson for the UNSG was not outspoken enough against Israel, at the time of the last war in Lebanon, Mr. Fawzi took over by himself the press conferences, even though he is not an official spokesperson. The argument was that as he is from the region, he knows the region better.

Aha, we think it is clear now - the Saudis produce the oil, so they know better what the cars need.