Posted on 09/24/2004 3:32:47 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Egypt has issued an order barring pop star Madonna from entering the country because she visited Israel.
Members of Egypt's parliament have demanded Madonna, who has not requested entry into Egypt or announced any plans to visit the country, be barred from entering Egyptian soil. The parliament directed Egyptian embassies abroad to deny any visa requests from Madonna.
The demand comes after Madonna, aka Esther, visited the Jewish state last week making daily headline news with midnight trips to a Jewish cemetery, a quick drive by past the Wailing Wall, and even the arrest of her security detail.
The Material Girl praised Israel during her trip and urged people to visit the country.
Madonna said she was hesitant at first to tour the Holy Land, but upon her arrival, she said she realized "that it is no more dangerous to be here than it is to be in New York, and I would like to emphasize the fact that I feel very safe and very welcome. ... I'd like to say how happy I am to be back in Israel. I promise not to stay away for another ten years." The singer was last in Israel for a 1993 concert.
Mort Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, was not surprised by Egypt's decision, and called on the U.S. to speak out against Egypt's anti-Israel actions. "America has plenty of leverage with Egypt," Klein told WorldNetDaily.
Egypt has received more than $50 billion in U.S. aid since singing a peace agreement with Israel in 1978, but the country routinely vilifies Israel in its media, has not stopped terrorists from building weapons smuggling tunnels into Palestinian territory, and has suspended formal relations with Israel.
WorldNetDaily recently exposed the publication of a two-part series in Egypt's newspaper that denied the Holocaust and claimed Jews invented "lies of genocide" to extort the West and make possible the establishment of the Jewish state.
Any excuse will do, I suppose.
Regards, Ivan
but, as with all things Madonna(Esther) it's always about ME ME ME.
And we send these yokels billions of dollars in hard-earned American taxpayer money -- and defense technology to boot.
Too bad they don't include the radical nitwit America haters, pro terrorists.
This must be a result of that vaunted "peace" treaty between Egypt and Israel. I've heard how wonderful it is. Didn't Jimmy Carter get some sort of Nobel for it?
We send Egypt money as the bride for having signed the Camp David accords, and so as not to attack Israel in future. We should end aid to both nations (and all others).
Proof that Madonna's doing something right with her Kaballah study and publicity.
They're still mad about Moses and that little "Red-Sea-Pharoh's-Armies-drowning" incident.
Note to Madonna...I lived in Cairo for 3 yrs...ya aint missing anything
Should we end support for Taiwan and South Korea? There's a difference between Egypt and Israel. One is a western country with a classically liberal, democratic form of government. It's one of the most advanced nations on the planet. The other is a hotbed of backward Islamism, squalor everywhere, with no real direction for the future other than hatred for Israel.
America either stands for freedom and encourages its friends to stay free, or else will eventually be surrounded by enemies and hated and held in contempt by all. The real reason we are seeing so much anti-Americanism is that we abandoned so many friends under stealth isolationists Carter and Clinton.
We'll be paying for their foolishness for 150 years.
Why do we give Egypt 2 billion a year in aid?
Is Cairo full of flies?
"Why do we give Egypt 2 billion a year in aid?"
To keep them from bombing the bezeepers out of Israel.
LOL yep!!!!!
CAIRO: Dust, flies and heat. Maybe the aroma of animal dung from horse drawn carts.Thanks
My favorite Cairo story was a few years ago, a sheep butted his master off the roof and killed him. The sheep was tethered up on the roof, being fattened up for sacrifice on Eid Al Fitr Muslim holy days.
take off on an old joke..."a good sheep will do that"
I would think she'd be banned just for being Madonna, or Esther, or whatever her name is now.
CAIRO: Where the sheep are sheep and the men are worried.
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