Feb. 4, 2007 — What do you get when four American comedians — one Palestinian and three Jewish — travel all the way to Israel to tell jokes in a synagogue? A first for comedy.
As far as anyone at the synagogue can remember, there has never been a comedy show with Jewish and Palestinian comedians on stage together in Israel.
The four comedians turned the not-so funny Palestinian-Israeli conflict on its head. Military checkpoints were mistaken for toll booths, every Palestinian is a potential kidnapper and there were even a few jokes about suicide bombings.
When they promise suicide bombers 72 virgins, the lone Palestinian Hanania jokes, suicide bombers are mistaken.
"It's not like English. You read Arabic from right to left," he said. "So, it's not 72 virgins. It's one virgin and she is 72 years old."
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