Posted on 04/05/2005 1:43:24 PM PDT by wagglebee
Actor Richard Gere has embarked on another Mideast peace mission, touring the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday and endorsing an end to violence.
In his third visit to the region in recent months, Gere has met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, a day after seeing Israeli leaders.
On Tuesday, Gere visited a cultural center in Ramallah, the Palestinian administrative capital in the West Bank. He said Abbas' call for a halt to attacks against Israelis is important.
"It is time to encourage the true face of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian movement," Gere said.
Inside the center Gere, 55, who won a best actor Golden Globe in 2003 for his role in the musical Chicago, exchanged ideas with Mahmoud Darwish, known as the Palestinian national poet.
On Monday Gere met in Tel Aviv Israel's two vice premiers, Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert, as well as the head of the dovish Israeli opposition Yahad party, Yossi Beilin. "It is a time of change," the actor said. "Both Israelis and Palestinians need to make sacrifices for this peace to come."
In March and June of last year, Gere toured Israel and the West Bank to promote social justice.
While this week's visit wasn't announced in advance, dozens of fans showed up before his meetings in Tel Aviv to catch a glimpse of the actor.
If you believe snopes.com, his rodent fetish is an urban legend.
Later in the day he went on to endorse pie and coffee.
I suspect Gere thinks he is Ghandi
I read something on another thread here earlier where Snopes said that the feminists burning their bras was an urban legend as well, and I've seen pictures of that.
Its not an urban legend that he stood up after 9/11 and urged men who run into burning buildings to learn "compassion".
He will never be taken seriously again.
...obviously not had Hollywood ringing his phone off the hook.
they gots gerbils in Iraq?
Who do these morons think they are? Come on. A gerbil stuffed actor in flowing robes suffering from some identity crisis has said "stop the war", so all the Arabs immediately drop their guns? Do people really believe that? And the "stars" will probably give him some special oscar this year.... sheeze.
Oh, bigger than that. Remember...
"Hi, I'm Richard Gere and I'm speaking for the entire world."
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He's rather naive, I think.
What a waste of a beautiful face. Almost as bad as Tom Cruise. But at least Cruise is into Scientology, not Gerbilology, although it's not much of a difference.
think "camel spiders".
"Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert, as well as the head of the dovish Israeli opposition Yahad party, Yossi Beilin. "It is a time of change," the actor said."
He met with the 3 biggest traitors in Israel.
I bet the Arabs welcome the star of American Gigolo with open arms. HA!
Wow, this is good news. I expect the Mid-East problems to come to an end by the end of the month.
It's very likely an urban legend, but that just kind of adds to the fun of repeating it all the time.
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