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| Peace in Middle East! Gerbils mysteriously disappear! |
| 2003-12-09 |
| Actor Richard Gere hugged a Palestinian legislator and met with Israeli settlers Tuesday during a tour of Israel and the West Bank. Gere’s three-day visit was coordinated by Peacemakers Circle International, a network of organizations working for social justice. The group toured Jordan over the weekend. Encouraging good relations between Israelis and Palestinians and "spreading the culture of peace" are ways Hollywood stars can improve peoples lives, said Daoud Kuttab, a Palestinian adviser for the network. Gere, who made a similar trip in June, refused to speak to reporters. In Israel, the movie star met with settlers from the West Bank and walked on the walls around Jerusalem’s Old City. Later, he toured the West Bank town of Ramallah, where he embraced legislator Hanan Ashrawi, a well-known Palestinian spokeswoman and human rights activist. Gere was "very human, very intense, very caring, very kind," Ashrawi said. Outside an office where he was to meet with Palestinian community leaders, a group of his fans clapped and shouted when they saw him stepping out of his vehicle. Gere also visited Bethlehem in the West Bank and the Arab-Jewish Israeli city of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv. His previous political activism has included the issue of human rights in Tibet. |
| Posted by:Dar |
| #5 As I may of said before, this guy is an actor. He is only coherent when someone lifts a script to his face. Course the logical conclusion is that Ronald and Ahrnuld are not real actors. |
| Posted by: john 2003-12-10 10:25:40 PM |
| #4 Tibet will not be free until fundamental changes are made in ChiCom China. The Paleos and Israelis will not be really free until there are fundamental changes in the middle east. All this Kumbayah crap means nothing when you are dealing with psychopaths who have no compunction about slitting your throat and then getting a good nights sleep. With the Hollywood idiots, it's all about feelings™. Nothing else. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-12-9 8:13:56 PM |
| #3 I love most of the roles he plays in movies, but God, is he stupid otherwise. His kum-bah-ya behavior is bound to get other people killed (but not the "Palestinians" unfortunately), while he escapes to inflict his stupidity on the next bunch. He's the epitome of cute, but totally clueless about the real world. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2003-12-9 5:57:10 PM |
| #2 Go ride some buses you jackass. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2003-12-9 5:17:53 PM |
| #1 Did he go to the Temple Mount? |
| Posted by: seafarious 2003-12-9 5:10:04 PM |