Jane Fonda visits refugee camp, hospitals in Ramallah: TALKS OUT OF REAR END, AGAIN

HA'aretz ^ | Last update - 02:04 22/12/2002 | By Ha'aretz Staff and Agencies

[Cinnamon Girl]

Jane and a scary M-16 get too close for her comfort:

An Israeli soldier checks the passport of American actress Jane Fonda, right, at Hizma checkpoint near the Jewish settlement of Pizgat Ze'ev, near Jerusalem as she makes a tour of the area by bus Saturday Dec. 21, 2002. Fonda, is on a week-long trip to the region. Others are unidentified members of her entourage. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

Jane Fonda passing an IDF roadblock on her way to Ramallah on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

American actress and activist Jane Fonda visited a refugee camp and a hospital in the West Bank on Saturday, capping a three-day visit to the region aimed at promoting peace.

Fonda, who was celebrating her 65th birthday, passed through a West Bank crossing point at Qalqilyah, trudging through mud and clutching a bouquet of red roses given to her by a Palestinian women's group.

She toured West Bank villages and nearby Israeli settlements and was led through a Palestinian refugee camp near Ramallah in a daylong tour by the Jerusalem Center for Women. Fonda also paid a visit to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat at his Muqata headquarters in the city.

It was the final visit of a trip organized by a global movement to stop violence against women. The movement, called V-Day, was inspired by the off-Broadway hit "The Vagina Monologues" and its playwright, Eve Ensler. Ensler accompanied Fonda and led discussions with Palestinian women.

"This is the focal point of so many conflicts," Fonda said. "Both sides aren't hearing each other's narratives, and maybe that's our role as artists."

Fonda and Ensler met with Fatima al-Kasba, 37, who lost two sons in fighting. Kasba said her sons, Yasser, 12, and Samer, 15, were killed a little over a month apart by IDF troops.

Later, Fonda and Ensler toured the Abu Raya Rehabilitation Center, where victims of violence and spinal cord injuries are treated and provided with physiotherapy.

Fonda, a two-time Oscar winner and fitness guru, said she had been to Israel and the West Bank in 1980, but what she saw today was dramatically different. She said she was most surprised by the number and proximity of settlements to the Palestinian population.

On Thursday, the American actress met with MKs Yael Dayan and Naomi Chazan in Jerusalem. She also visited Israelis wounded in suicide bombings who are recovering at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem.

[Cinnamon Girl]

1. Pizgat Ze'ev is a well established neighborhood that has been annexed.

2. Jane Fonda is still an idiot.

[judicial meanz]

It used to be, long ago, before the political correct heresy we have been subjected to, that each military club had "Hanoi Jane" urinal cakes in each urinal. They were manufactured by some company in the east, and sent world wide to the military clubs, barracks, and what not as a reminder of her treasonous b***s***.

Maybe I can find the company and see if the IDF would like a few for their military clubs and barracks, since they have something in common with US veterans now.

She is still a world class idiot...you are absolutely right.

[Sungirl]

Why is anyone listening to this stupid witch who should of been hung for treason YEARS AGO!!

[MJY1288]

Maybe if Jane Fonda was aboard a bus when it was blown up by one of those terrorist, She might have a different opinion

[Lent]

"This is the focal point of so many conflicts," Fonda said. "Both sides aren't hearing each other's narratives, and maybe that's our role as artists."

Huh? Yeah, paint a picture for us artiste Fonda. I'm sure it's bound to come out looking like a paint-by-numbers job.

[evad]

alert...alert!!!
Target rich environment.

[AF68]

I guess Hanoi Jane didn't have enough time to visit Isreali families whose loved-ones were murdered by Palestinian suicide bombers or shot dead as they were innocently going about their business. Hanoi Jane didn't care to visit wounded children in Israeli hospitals whose bodies are peppered with nails dipped in rat poison and human feces, courtesy of a Palestinian suicide killer.

[oyez]

maybe that's our role as artists

Maybe my role as a lab manager will allow me do do brain surgery. Jane and Sean, stay home, count your blessings and shut up.

[vikingchick]

Fonda, who was celebrating her 65th birthday, passed through a West Bank crossing point at Qalqilyah, trudging through mud and clutching a bouquet of red roses given to her by a Palestinian women's group.

Where's some quicksand when you really need it?

[txzman]

You would've thought she would have learned her lesson over Viet Nam.

I am not amazed at her stupidity and self-focus, but gave her a wee more credit to recognize that a large share of the American public still thinks of her as a traitor.

[EaglesUpForever]

Where was Ramallah Jane when the World Trade Center was destroyed? What did she do for the victims of that? What is she doing to fight the root cause of that, gutter cults like Al Queda? And what statement has she made condemning suicide bombings?

"Ramallah Jane" urinal cakes, an inevitability.

[vikingchick]

Your 'rear end' comment was apparently quite accurate. This is what the surname "Fonda" means:

FONDA Spanish, Fonda, bottom, foundation, the source or beginning. Fondi, a town of Naples, in Italy, so called from the Latin fundus, the bottom.

LOL.

[tet68]

1. Jane Fonda is still an idiot.

2. At 65 she's still not too old to hang.

3. She does look bad though, maybe Yassir can give her some of his drugs, dilate those pupils a lot like his.

4. At 65 she's still not too old to hang.

[geedee]

Until the vet in the wheelchair forgives her, I won't either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[martin_fierro]

Jane Fonda visits refugee camp, hospitals in Ramallah: TALKS OUT OF REAR END, AGAIN

Strangely fitting, as she hails from Uranus. <|:)~

[doug from upland]

Actually, the article said she did visit Israeli victims. Yes, I still loathe her as much as you do.

[Bogie]

#3

Yeah, I thought she "dried up" a long time ago!

[Cinnamon Girl]

"Both sides aren't hearing each other's narratives, and maybe that's our role as artists."

I think Israel knows what the palestinian "narrative" sounds like, all too well.