Palestinian, 3 Jews Walk Into a Synagogue...

[oberliner]

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."

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/International/story?id=2848451&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[nofurylike]

1. made me cry. thank you for posting this, oberliner. peace. eom

[msmcghee]

2. For anyone who might have missed the PHC joke show today . .

. . on NPR, a priest, an evangelical preacher and a rabbi were talking in a bar over drinks about how good they each were at converting the wayward to religion and so they decided to have a contest. They'd each go into the woods and try to convert a bear.

They met again the following week to compare their stories. The priest said he heard the bear's confession, told the bear his sins were forgiven and soon had the bear praying the rosary. The Evangelist told how he was so infused with the power and glory of Gawd Almighty that he wrestled the bear to the ground. The bear was so impressed that he was born again on the spot.

They both looked over at the rabbi who was covered in bandages and had one arm and both legs in a cast. "What happened to you?" asked the priest.

"Well", said the rabbi, "I probably shouldn't have started with the circumcision".

[nofurylike]

3. well, being pretty heartbroken for bears, too, i have to say it's

moving to hear of such peaceful interacting between cultures - while seeing fair assertion of limits, too.

thank you for the laugh :)


peace