We're posting this for two reasons. The first is to show that MR is not a blog where Israel can do no wrong. Quite the opposite, we'd be among the first to admit that the Jewish State's insulting treatment of the Fab Four represents nothing short of a crime against humanity. Quite possibly it's a crime against the fabric of the universe itself. The second is because the lede of this YNet story is spectacular in its understatement of how much Israel's Foreign Ministry totally sucks:

After accomplishing the mission of rehabilitating Israel's problematic image in the world, the Foreign Ministry has now found the time to deal with the real important issue: Extending an official apology to The Beatles, 43 years after the British band was banned from performing in the Jewish state. Israeli Ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor was expected to meet Monday morning with John Lennon's sister, Julia Baird, at The Beatles museum in Liverpool and to present her with an official letter of apology from the State of Israel for banning the band's members from performing in the country in 1965... "Unfortunately, the State of Israel cancelled your performance in the country due to lack of budget and because several politicians... believed at the time that your performance might corrupt the minds of the Israeli youth."

Moral dilemma: if it turns out that Israel's contemporary crises are karmic payback for its outrages against the Fab Four, are we even allowed to side with the Jewish State? And if not, are we further obligated to embrace the anti-Israel cause? We think we're pretty good on the latter question since there's no way that the Beatles would want us to embrace genocidal lunacy - cf. Timothy Leary's demonstrably true observation that "the Beatles are mutants... prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen." The first part's a little murkier.

References:
* Israel apologizes to The Beatles [YNet]
* Do They Just Get To Make Things Up Now? [MR]

Previously:
* Fire And Brimstone Watch: Yoko Ono Still Refusing To Apologize For Breaking Up the Beatles
* Confirmed: Israeli Women Love Sex [Video, Mildly NSFW]
* Israeli Hottie Alexandra Loxsin Is Sad Because MR Is Getting Killed In The JIBs