[BenW]

Hollywood style conflict resolution. :rolleyes:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/26/wbrad26.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/10/26/ixportal.html

[Preacherman]

Now, if we can just get Alec Baldwin, Barbara Streisand, Susan Sarandon and a few others to join this "crusade", and then persuade the Israeli security forces that they're really suicide bombers in training...

:evil: :p :D

[Brian Dale]

Says the Telegraph: "The logic behind their mission, planned to take place before the end of the year, is not especially sophisticated. " They explain:Pitt and Aniston believe that most people in the region want a negotiated settlement with an end to violence, and imagine that by appealing directly to "ordinary folk", they can bring the warring parties together. Gosh - why has no one ever thought of this before? :rolleyes:
The organisers admit that none of the actors has any experience of the Middle East or of conflict resolution, but argue that this may be a good thing as they will be considered non-partisan. That's one way to look at it. http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/happy/roflmao.gif

[Moparmike]

You know, there comes a point in one's readings about morons, idiots, and dumba$$es that you realize that you wouldnt shed a tear if they happened to encounter the truth. No matter how that truth arrives.

In other words, it is really funny to watch when Darwin and Murphy start working together, like I hope it does with these two. It seems horrible to say that, but "Stupid is as stupid does."

[Shweboner]

Great, send in a couple of rich, know-it-all actors to talk peace there? Good luck, I dont see a couple of hideously rich American infidels solving much at all.

~Brian

Absolutely Rediculous:neener:

[Deadman]

Useful (useless) idiots.

[semf]

You know what, WHATEVER. I hope Treadwell saves a spot for them.

[USAFA]

I have a feeling I'm going to be chortoling over this one for months. I can just hear the thought going through their collective heads "Well, if Arnold can go down in history as the Govenor of California..."
Now we just need to compile a list of "stars" we'd like to see over there and start a letter writing campaign to get them to go help. Hey, at least it would get them out of OUR hair, and I doubt they'll manage to bother the Palestinians too much.

HA!:p

[Tamara]

Sounds about as sensible as cavorting with grizzlies. :scrutiny:

[TarpleyG]

STICK TO WHAT YOU KNOW!!!

That said, there is nothing, NOTHING, that will bring peace to that region short of the total annhilation of either muslim extremists or all non-muslims. We should just accept that fact.

GT

[Sodbuster]

"The past few years of conflict mean that yet another generation of Israelis and Palestinians will grow up in hatred," reads a statement from Pitt and Aniston. "We cannot allow that to happen."
I'm impressed. They are going to will this to happen. I admire such power. When they say past few years, they must mean the past few thousand years. I bet Colin hires them after this.

[Mute]

More power to them. Maybe when they're done, they'll finally get a does of reality that is the middle east.

[rock jock]

I don't know what to say about this other than it is IMO a shining example of the unmitigated arrogance of the leftists. No wonder they protested the war in Iraq, or war in general for that matter. Ostensibly, all we really needed to do is sit down with our enemy and have a proper tea together.

By Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem
(Filed: 26/10/2003)


Bill Clinton failed, Tony Blair drew a blank and Kofi Annan made little progress. But now a team of Hollywood film stars is about to visit the Middle East on a private peace mission, in the belief that their charms will work magic on the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Brad Pitt, his wife, Jennifer Aniston, and Danny DeVito are among the stars who aim to succeed where world statesmen have stumbled.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt
"The past few years of conflict mean that yet another generation of Israelis and Palestinians will grow up in hatred," reads a statement from Pitt and Aniston. "We cannot allow that to happen."

Quite how they intend to stop it is not entirely clear. The logic behind their mission, planned to take place before the end of the year, is not especially sophisticated.

Pitt and Aniston believe that most people in the region want a negotiated settlement with an end to violence, and imagine that by appealing directly to "ordinary folk", they can bring the warring parties together.

In a region suffering from peace initiative fatigue, however, Israelis and Palestinians have greeted news of the Hollywood initiative with bemusement and incredulity.

For some, the prospect of DeVito sitting down to talk peace with Hamas militants over a cup of sweet tea, or Pitt breaking bread at a sabbath dinner with hardline Jewish settlers, is preposterous.

Oz Almog, an Israeli sociologist, said: "Following Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as governor in California, it seems we are now joining the Hollywood revolution.

"From time to time, some celebrities think that they might help, and the media amplifies their mission. But this is an incredibly complex situation and I am afraid they are naive.

"Many Palestinians do not even have television sets. What is more, for the past three years here no one has listened to anyone, so what makes these people think they will listen to Danny DeVito?"

The stars are among a group of actors, directors and writers who have signed up to the £4 million peace initiative called One Voice, launched by Daniel Lubetzky, an American-Jewish businessman.

They were persuaded to back the cause after Rhea Perlmann, who starred in Cheers and is married to DeVito, hosted a reception for Mr Lubetzky at their home in Los Angeles that was attended by more than 100 guests.

Other Hollywood figures backing the project include Pitt's co-star in Fight Club, Edward Norton, and Jason Alexander, a star of Seinfeld and Pretty Woman.

Mr Lubetzky plans to distribute computer terminals to community centres, schools and offices in both Israeli and Palestinian areas for use in an informal "referendum".

The actors will urge people to make their views known on the important sticking points that have thwarted peace negotiations, including the future of Jerusalem, national borders, the status of Palestinian refugees and access to disputed water supplies.

The organisers admit that none of the actors has any experience of the Middle East or of conflict resolution, but argue that this may be a good thing as they will be considered non-partisan.

Mohammed Darawse, the Palestinian regional co-ordinator of the project, is convinced that they can make a difference. "They asked intelligent questions when we met them and they clearly know the big picture," he said.

[2dogs]

This is a good thing.

Next, let's send them out to the Pakistan/Afghan border region to see if they can talk Osama into surrendering. After all, he is a victim too and, and .........gee, misunderstood. I'm sure all it will take is a glimpse at Jen in that low cut dress and woo woo- Osama will be melting. Or maybe Brad is his type................? :rolleyes:


Really, the extent to which we worship celebrity in this country makes me want to :barf: .

If I never hear another word about any of these self absorbed and deluded twits it will be too soon.

[4v50 Gary]

Perhaps they should go one step further and go to Pakistan where they can convince Bin Laden that we're not so bad after all. Besides, if they don't come back, would we miss them? Can we take up a collection for the other members of the Hollywood elite and charter a plane to Pakistan? :)

[sm]

I nominate Rosie O, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon to go...
Or is there a limit on nominations ?:)

[Bill Hook]

This goes to show how truly ignorant the Hollyweirdos are.

[OF]

Wow. I don't know whether to laugh or kill my TV.

Maybe both are in order...

- Gabe

[Keith]

You know what's even more infuriating? I just pulled up the site for this project (silentnolonger.com) to find that it's funded by "ordinary people from all walks of life". In other words, these insanely rich celebrities can't even pony up the half million bucks or so to fund their own project! No, they want ordinary people to fund it...
They will do their part by showing up when the camera's get rolling. I hope the parade of limo's from the five star hotel to the photo opportunity don't run down any "ordinary people" in the narrow streets of Jerusalem.

Keith

[bountyhunter]

When they had to cut loose the wacko killer on a technicality, Dirty Harry said they would get him when he did it again. His captain asked how he could possibly know he would do it again?

"Because he likes it." snarled Harry.

Same reasoning applies to the Middle east. If they didn't have somebody to fixate on and hate, they would all wake up one morning and realize they were a bunch of ignorant yahoos living like third world countries and had no excuse for their own misery. More fun to kill people.

[XLMiguel]

A freind e-mailed me this, attributed to Mr. Williams -
The Robin Williams' Plan for World Peace

I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan:

1. The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Noriega, Milosovich and the rest of those 'good ole boys.' We will never "interfere" again.

2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We will station troops at our borders. No one sneaking through holes in the fence.

3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France should welcome them.

4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. NO ONE! If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5. No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6. The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while. The Sierra Club, etc. will have to deal with it.

7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8. If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9. We will ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10. All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. Now, ain't that a winner of a plan?

The Statue of Liberty will no longer say, "Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, "You want a piece of me?"

[rock jock]

Sorry Mike, but that is an urban legend.

[Kinsman]

Well, on the one hand, "why not??"

But (and it's a big butt) on the other hand, what a bunch of narcissistic folks. "Well, they love me and adore me in the States, why not go over and let my charisma work its magic..."

Yeesh. Some people's children.

[toro]

I guess Hollywood stars just don't study history;)

As recent as June 7, 1981 President Reagan and his wife were on a helicopter ready to go to Camp David. His National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen was in a panic as he telephoned the president. He told his aid to get him off the helicopter.

Moments later the president took the phone. Allen explained that the Israelis had just taken out a nuclear reactor in Iraq. {Is this the place these Hollywood stars and the Democrats say they have no WMDs?}
"They used American F-16s, sir. We sold those seventy-five F-16s with stipulation that they be used only for defensive purposes."

At 4:40 p.m. Israeli time, a secret squadron had left underground bunkers at Israel's Etzion air base in the Sinai. The formation of flyers crossed the Gulf of 'Aqaba and flew over Jordan. Taking advantage of blind spots in the Arab radar system, the fourteen aircraft stayed close to the ground. To deceive any radio intervention, each pilot spoke flawless Arabic.

Menachem Begin had ordered six F-15 camouflaged interceptors into a protective formation, around the eight F-16s carrying 2,000-pound bombs. The timing had been carefully orchestrated to minimize the possibility of injuring Iraqi civilians at the reactor site. As the agreed-upon time, the Israeli jets dropped out of the sky, blasting the nuclear reeactor station at Osirak.

When the lead plane released the first salvo, video-guided "smart" bombs blew holes in the concrete barriers around the reactors. No one would find the remains of the homing device that ensured that the missiles went straight to their target. The device had been hidden in a briefcase planted earlier by an agent of the Israeli secret service, Mossad. After the first explosions, the roof of the reactor collapsed sending hundreds of tons of concrete and steel crashing to earth. Within moments, the Iraqi's $260 million nuclear research reactor and all of its technical equipment became a smoking rubble. Saddam Hussein's ability to build an atomic bomb was crushed for the moment.

If you think Iraq does not have WMDs you are sadly mistaken. If it had not been for Israel they would have an Atomic bomb by now.

Mrs. Toro


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1 Peter 5;6,7
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

[outdoorman63]

i guess these acors who were in the right place at the right time are more important then they actually are.....we already pay them too much..now they think they are better diplomats...it only gets funnier dont it...maybe we need a reality show bout liberals doing things to really help and change the world...hummmm damn that can't happen wouldnt be reality...........

[Futo Inu]

The palestinians that are Muslim (most if not all) don't want people in their society to have tvs and computers; lest they become enamored with the evil Western culture. Don't know what makes them think the Paletinians would even know who they heck they are. Israelis, yes, maybe.

[Keith]

Isn't anyone else enraged that these rich b@$&^&$ expect everyone else to pick up the tab for this airhead project?

Keith

[ojibweindian]

Keith

I expect things like this from our esteemed entertainment capitol of the world. What enrages me is that, aparently, quite a few brain-dead schmucks actually sent them money!

One can only hope that while over there, those twits will run into a fundamentalist Mullah. Maybe he will do us all a favor and "punish the infidels".

[Andrew Rothman]

You know what's even more infuriating? I just pulled up the site for this project (silentnolonger.com) to find that it's funded by "ordinary people from all walks of life". In other words, these insanely rich celebrities can't even pony up the half million bucks or so to fund their own project! No, they want ordinary people to fund it...

Well, you don't expect them to tell the truth, do you?

OneVoice is a pet project of a small number of rich, well-meaning, spoiled but well-intentioned people who never had to learn that wanting something doesn't always make it happen.


The stars are among a group of actors, directors and writers who have signed up to the £4 million peace initiative called One Voice, launched by Daniel Lubetzky, an American-Jewish businessman.

Spend some more time on the site. The organization has plenty of corporate and celebrity sponsors.

Hey, at least it's not taxpayer supported. I figure the worst that can happen is they waste their own time and money.

[Keith]

The organization has plenty of corporate and celebrity sponsors.

Well, I don't see any celebrity sponsors! I see the corporate sponsors and I see celebrities willing to shoot their mouth off for the publicity.

Any one of these people could foot the entire bill without even missing it!

Keith

[tyme]

In other news, Dorian Gray, Mina Harker, Henry Jekyll, Allan Quartermain, Tom Sawyer, Captain Nemo, and the Invisible Man are to steal North Korea's nuclear weapons and turn them over to the IAEA after disabling PRNK's reactor.

Even that headline is more believable than the one with the hollywood duo.

[LawDog]

Multiple threads merged.

LawDog

[Brian Dale]

Every dollar that empty-headed celebrities and their fans spend on this foolishness is a dollar they don't sent to the Brady Bunch. Let 'em take their smug, superior notions out of the country for a few days - no problem.

[Frohickey]

I wish these three all of the luck in the world. (there are two kinds of luck. :D )

[Nightfall]

I guess when you're a gorgeous, multi-millionaire who's life revolves around what ya see on TV, your perception of reality can become a wee bit warped.... :rolleyes: