It is time they stood up and said that we will honor them and we will honor the greatest generation and we will also simply DO WHAT IS RIGHT and we will not let history repeat itself. Why in HADES would we have fought a dang world war and spent 50 years in self-flaggelation over the deaths of 8 million jews and now IGNORE the murder of jews...?
(Boy---this is beginning to sound more and more like Swift's "Modest Proposal" in its farce and facetiousness, because we know, of course, that these phony limosine liberals aren't going to speak out against their pals the Palis----they have supported the Palis and advocated the extermination of Israel since they and since I and since we, the boomers, were in school in the sixties, for crying out loud---it was a TENET of the radical left of which they and the CLINTONS, for example, were and are part-and-parcel.)
So. Back to the modest proposal.
The Boss, and John Cougar Melloncamp Whatever-Fashionable-Marketing-Name-Du-Jour and Rockers-For-Choice and We-Are-The-World and Farm-Aid and Feed-Africa.....how about you all get together and take a real stand against......ANTI SEMITISM??? Eh???? Now THAT is something you could sink your TEETH into? Seems to ME????
Imagine, say, if some white guy were walking into a crowded marketplace in, say, Sudan, every day, blowing himself up, and taking out two or three dozen other souls with him? Can you imagine the outcry?
Yet, somehow, it's ok if it's jews.....Hmmm.....(And to think....when I was growing up....a white suburban Southern Baptist in a mid-sized segregated southern city....I couldn't figure out how in hell the people of Germany, or the people of Europe or the world, sorta stood by in the thirties and let the anti-semitism build up to such a fever pitch. Uh, well, now I can see how...........BTW, I had met ONE jew before I went to college.)
So let's get behind this:
Maybe DFU can write an anthem for us. One that we can all sing, one that Bruce can lead, maybe Dylan can join in and help HIS OWN DAMN PEOPLE! And BARBRA...WHERE are you? Is Jackie Mason the only Jewish entertainer who will come out for his own people?
I wanna see Julia Roberts say, "I KISSED DON RICKLES" and giggle like an idiot.
Seriously.
Seriously: Can you imagine the impact if George Clooney and Denzel and Halle and Michael Jackson all got together and said, Look, Yassir, you MUST STOP this killing of innocent JEWS---YOU are the problem. We, the world, cannot abide with a new century of more Jewish genocide. We SEE what is going on. You may fool the media and the rest of the world but you don't fool us with your double-talk. Israel defends itself. The "cycle" of violence is permanently BRAKED after YOU end TERRORISM against the JEWS who are not agressing and who have not agressed ever against Arabs, despite every war started by ARABS against ISRAEL.
So, end the violence. We will sing, GIVE PEACE A CHANCE. We will sing of peace, to promote peace. The suicide bombing and the killing of jews must end.
Signed with love and lots of peace signs,
Bono
The Boss
Barbra
The Edge
Meathead
Etc, etc, etc.
I prefer bombs to symbolism.
--Boris
For those embroiled in this conflict, who feel unheard, these famous stars can get their word out to the world at large. They can write songs, plays, television comedies, whatever, pinpointing the real problems and humiliating those who's real gripe is racial hatred.
No one who is good in this world wishes for either side to suffer, for any child to be harmed. The problem is the racially, or religiously based intolerance. There is no better way to educate and change opinions than through the arts.
Genocide, slavery, bloody dictatorships, Muslim 'conversion' techniques, paying children to become suicide bombers... all too messy, can't be blamed the popular scapegoats, and aren't covered enough on CNN to get them the attention/adoration they want.