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Lisa Goldman, a freelance writer in Israel, has posted some great Israeli campaign commercials.

Here's one from the rightist Likud Party's Bibi Netanyahu, arguably the frontrunner:

And here's one from Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister and a member of the centrist Kadima Party:

But the most interesting pitch comes from the Holocaust Survivors and Green Leaf Party, whose platform is avowedly pro-cannabis:

According to Goldman, the first caption reads, bizarrely, "this number [i.e., a concentration camp tattoo number] is not good for credit."

 

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