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May 18, 2008
Clueless-In-Chief
By: Bernard Chazelle
Bush's astonishing ignorance about Israel would be funny if it were not so tragic.
Mr. Bush asked if Arabs and Jews dated one another, or went to dances.Posted at May 18, 2008 11:14 AM“No dances?” he asked, sounding surprised.
None but their generational 'dans macabre', sadly.
There are programs--music camps and stuff like that--in the US and elsewhere outside Palest-Israel which gather small numbers of Palest-Israelian kids for mutual understanding training around a common love. But those are 1) rare, 2) elitist, and 3) unlikely to foster larger understandings in any case.
Posted by: woody, tokin librul at May 18, 2008 12:34 PMThere's also something nicely condescending about the article itself.
It's not like there's an abundance of interracial dating and dancing in this country...
What!!! Ya thought George would find a cure for his ignorance by now???---Nan@1-202-225-0100---DEMAND IMPEACHMENT.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at May 18, 2008 10:11 PMBaylor University in Waco, which of course is run by the baptists, did not allow dancing in on-campus functions until the 1980s. But that's Texas.
Posted by: Jonathan Versen at May 20, 2008 11:05 PMI knew an Israeli guy who used to date an Arab guy, but that's different somehow, because hey, dudes.
Posted by: Doctorb at May 22, 2008 07:09 PM
