The single biggest lie of the Israel Lobby crowd is how being anti-Israel harms a person’s career. You can’t speak out against Israel, the narrative goes, without suffering for it. Never mind that Jimmy Carter, Walt & Mearsheimer, Pat Buchanan, and many others have managed to get richer and richer as they hammer Israel more and more. It’s a given.
And this despicable show in San Francisco exemplifies how easy it is to make money while being anti-Israel and pro-terrorist, apparently. Even the title is offensive: I Heart Hamas.
With the current ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, the threat of global terrorism, and the never-ending negotiations and hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians, its hard not to feel overwhelmed by all of the bad international news. That’s exactly how Jennifer Jajeh feels. And to make matters worse, Jennifer is Palestinian. Well, Palestinian American. Or more precisely: a single, Christian, first generation, Palestinian American woman who chooses to return to her parents’ hometown of Ramallah at the start of the Second Intifada.
Join her on American and Palestinian soil on auditions, bad dates, and across military checkpoints as she navigates the thorny terrain around Palestinian identity. Weaving together humor, slides, pop culture references and live theatre, Jajeh explores how she becomes Palestinian-ized, then politicized and eventually radicalized in a fresh, often funny, searingly honest way.
“I Heart Hamas: And Other Things Im Afraid To Tell You”, recognized by NYTheatre.com as “a fascinating look into a world we don’t often see or hear about”, made its world premiere in 2008 as a part of New York International Fringe Festival. Following strong media praise and audience reception, the play ran for 3 months in San Francisco in Fall 2009 as a co-production with Off-Market Theaters.
A “fresh, often funny” look at the radicalization of a Christian Palestinian. Wow. Can’t wait for it to hit Broadway. And lest you forget, here’s a link to the Hamas charter, which spells out how it will destroy the Jewish state and replace it with an Islamic caliphate—while also blaming Jews for the ills of the world. Yeah, you go heart Hamas, Jennifer. It’s very Christian of you.
Obviously she has decided to be a janissary rather than a dhimmi.
The Janissaries (from Ottoman Turkish يكيچرى Yeniçeri meaning “new soldier”) comprised infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan’s household troops and bodyguards. The force was created by the Sultan Murad I from male Christian children levied through the devÅŸirme system from conquered Christian countries in the 14th century[1]
kapıkulu actually means “door subjects/servants” which stands for “personal elite forces” of the sultan and the “protectors” of the throne independant of the regular army
I’m sure if you asked her she’d say she likes Hamas’s anti-corruption stand, day care centers, and free meals for the elderly rather than the political side. However, she has openly embraced a movement that overtly calls for the extermination of Jews everywhere. Yet I’d guess that New York audiences, which undoubtedly have a substantial Jewish component, ate it up.
Perhaps they think that Hamas tacitly exempts them because they aren’t Zionists.
The anti-Israel opposition is in full panic mode.
Any objective analysis shows that Israels strategic position is improving daily.
The Israeli economy is very strong. So strong, in fact, that over the last 18 months the Central Bank of Israel has been buying BILLIONS of US Dollars. The growth rate for Israel in 2010 is expected to be between 3 and 4%. And that is before the major natural gas find off of Haifa comes on line late in 2010 or early in 2011.
As the previous blog entry points out Israeli military technology is fast becoming a world leader. Supplying ones forces – logistics – is the key to winning battles and war. Napoleon’s military dicta that ‘an army marches on it stomach’ is even more true today. Using robots to ferry supplies frees up large amounts of man power to be the ‘sharp end of the stick’. Israels decisive victory in Gaza last year is precisely what caused the left to shout ‘UNFAIR’.
Time favors Israel. So those who hate freedom, the same people who hate Israel; from either side of the political spectrum, have to become ever more strident in a vain attempt to ‘Stop Israel’.
Thank G-d that will not work.
Perhaps they are like the “Global Warming” fanatics who advocate that the world population be cut by 90%. They block out the fact that they will be the first ones to be wiped out if they “win”.
“They block out the fact that they will be the first ones to be wiped out if they “winâ€.”
No, they actually believe that if they advocate genocide strongly enough, they will be blessed by those who carry out the whole messy business with an exemption from being killed themselves. Sort of how Democratic politicians think they have a permenant free pass to be as racist, sexist, and anti-semitic as they want, but still be considered perfectly liberal and open-minded anyhow because they’re on The Moral High Ground, or how environmentalists believe they’ve earned the right to do all the things they attack other people for doing, because those very attacks have earned themselves the right to poison Gaia all they want.
Last July an approving documentary about Rachel Corrie was hosted by–the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Given the morally corrosive influence of the Left over the last few decades one dast not blame Mark Levin for calling it “San Fransicko.”
Notice where she lives and how she dresses. Let her go live with the Hamasnakim and see how she likes that.