Golly. Even in Israel, stupid, narcissistic crap trumps drive-by shootings and mass-protests any day. (Pardon my slight exaggeration.)
It appears that our own Ricky Martin (he is considered an American, right?) taking up the cause of oppressed Arab children ("As a Latino, I understand your plight") got dressed up pretty like Arafat on international TV. Luckily, a quick meeting with Israel's Consul General in New York cooled the tenuous Israeli-Martin relations.
At which point the former IDF Navy Seal put Martin into a secret ShinBet choke hold and threatened to crush his wind pipe if he every "Got all smarmy and Latin-like" on his ass again.
...as a special gesture he planned to play a concert in Israel on his next world tour in spring. During their meeting [Consul General Arye] Mekel suggested that Martin collaborate with Israeli artists, and Martin replied that he would be happy to do so.
In an attempt to further patch up relations, Martin told Mekel that he learned several Hebrew words from his friends in Los Angeles. He then turned to Mekel and said "my dear" in Hebrew.
Mekel summed up the meeting by saying: "especially in these times when we are busy with issues like disengagement and the Shfaram murder, Martin's arrival in Israel is both a breath of fresh air for issues over and above the conflict, issues that we are interested the media cover."
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Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Post page on which I found this article has a "Google ads," box. So an advertiser pays Google for an ad, and then Google buys as space on various other (and probably more prominent) sites. The ads are supposed to be related to the site on which Google places them. So, for example, if you are selling wheat germ, Google ads might place your ad on a natural cooking site, but not on the Victoria's Secret site. On this particular Jerusalem Post page, the Google ad offered the chance to purchase an article called "Israeli Atrocities." Whoops! The internet is magic.
5 comments:
no comments for ricky martin. but crazy contrast to the current state of affairs in the middle east!! thank god for cheezy pop stars to distract us from the world's more pressing events...
has anyone commented on the fact that the proposed date of "disengagement" takes place the day after Tisha b'Av? And if you read last week's parshah, Masei, there is a very explicit reference to a) what the borders of Eretz Yisrael should be and b) what the children of israel must do to live in the land, that is, "expel" all the canaanites (some commentators explain that our inability to successfully expel all remnants of the canaanite civilization from Eretz Yisrael is in some ways responsible for our inability to live successfully in israel and led historically to the jews own expulsion from israel to babylon).
it also seems that the language used for disengagement by the settlers: "ligaresh" (to expel) is also the language used in parshah masei--actually it is "horashtem" (to inherit, but this doesn't make sense, rashi explains this is supposed to be g'rashtem (to expel) [see Bamidbar 33:52].
is all of this simply coincidence??
So finally every Blinderman has left you a comment. Your latest blog entry, where you describe the media using celebrities as aversions from the tragedies and horrors that surround us is like a reflection of my artwork that I have been working on recently. For example i have a piece where I juxtapose an image of a WWII soldier wearing a gas mask with an image of Mickey Mouse. We should rap about it sometime.
it weems ricky martin is going all over to help children he was on oprah asking for support for tsunami children he was asking for volunteers and not money he
i hope disengagement goes well
When will you resume your story in your blog.Miss it and you.
Hi,Esta.
Red neck aunt.
My blogger friend....Hope all is well and keep writing....A Ricki Martin....Who needs him....Love Burt....PS Saying hi to mommy ESTA
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