Shakira warmly greeting Israeli President
A group of Egyptians have launched a campaign over the internet calling to prevent famous Lebanese/Columbian singer Shakira from entering Egypt, and cancel her scheduled concert in Cairo in the month of November, in response to her recent visit to Israel a week ago.Many people denounced Shakira's visit to the Israel, and visiting Israeli children in a school in Jerusalem rather than visiting Palestinian children who are suffering from the Israeli occupation.
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Leave her alone.
ReplyDeleteNO BLOODY WAY!!! She spat in the collective face of Palestinian solidarity! A scumbag!
ReplyDeleteReally offensive of you vza to take such a position on this issue of Shakira. This is not a game! Not for us anyway!
ReplyDelete<span>And no frigging business as usual with Israel, the occupation and war criminal scumbags such as Peres! No way Shakira will ever be allowed in Egypt and you will see!
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Who is Shakira? Oh I know she's an entertainer of some description, but where is she from. The name is Arabic, so what is her background?
ReplyDeleteWell, I am sorry if you find it offensive, but I do not buy into that . She is a really decent person who does not deserve to be caught between the two sides...especially when she is a UNICEF ambassador. UNICEF ambassadors go everywhere, so until the UN bans travel to israel, Leave her alone. Egypt has a hell of lot more serious issues to deal with than Shakira. Egypt still has a treaty with Israel, right? Don't Egyptians meet with Israelis? Well, Ban Egyptians from Egypt, too!
ReplyDelete<span><span>Shakira is a Colombian singer. Her ethnic descent INCLUDES Italian, Lebanese, Spanish. A really good person who has done a remarkable amount of good through her foundation and benefit concernts. She is also a UNICEF ambassador.</span></span>
ReplyDeleteIsn't "UNICEF ambassador" shorthand for "Hollywood airhead who wants the public to think she's more than an airhead". Or is it a polite way of saying "Look out African mothers there's a baby-snatcher about"?
ReplyDeleteVery funny. But she is NOT a Hollywood airhead.
ReplyDelete<span>"until the UN bans travel to israel, Leave her alone"</span>
ReplyDeleteDid the UN ban travel to Apartheid South Africa? An individual with a modicum of consciousness and awareness, (and she was made aware by activists who called on her not to visit Israel and provided her with everything she needed to know and she brushed them off!) would not wait for the UN to ban anything in order to act acording to his/her principles and convictions! It cannot be and should not be business as usual! There's an emergency as Israel has gone completely insane! Irrational! Mad! No one should be visiting Israel! It's the absolute pariah state!
She would have to resign as UNICEF ambassador if she did what you think she should. You can't represent the UN and then refuse to visit one of its countries. That's her call.
ReplyDeletePerhaps acting according to her principles and convictions is what Shakira is doing, just differently from the way you see it.
Well, I certainly do not plan to visit Israel until they end the occupation, and in my small world, it is a sacrifice for me, since archaeology is my passion and I really want to see the underground crusader city they are excavating in Acre... but who cares what I do?
She was not invited as a UNICEF representative! What would one be doing at a "presidential conference"?
ReplyDeletePerhaps she was not there as a UNICEF rep. I really do not know. Shakira's foundation focus is on the education of children. I believe the conference was about issues pertaining to the future. I guess education would certainly be on the agenda.
ReplyDeleteI understand your passion about this, Tgia, and I can see how it would be galling that wily, old Peres would be cynical enough to consider her appearance a coup of sorts, since she is partly of Lebanese descent, but I just do not like to go around threatening decent people to do what I want them to do...and she is definitely a very decent person who does an awful lot of good when she could just spend her life being a self-indulgent "airhead" ( Jemmy Hope's term!)
A "decent person" to whom facts about the occupation and the blatant abuse of human rights were presented and described in detail (I haven't posted about it here but I've been quite busy following this issue for quite a while on Facebook). She had the whole picture of the ugly reality about the theft of Palestinian lands and chose to ignore it all. Maybe a decent person, but certainly not intelligent enough thinking she could still go about her business as usual in countries that felt deeply humiliated and outrageds by her visit and her disgusting embrace of that slimebag Peres!
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ReplyDelete<span>The Grammy Award-winner, who has a Lebanese father and is rumored to have made anti-Israel statements in the past, is a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. She is slated to visit Jerusalem in her United Nations capacity on Tuesday to join in the third annual Israeli Presidential <span>Conference</span>. </span>
http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=225645
A campaign calling on her to revise her judgement was going on since the news about her visit broke out. There was a Facbook page/group created for that purpose. Thousands of letters were posted on her own, or fans' page on Fb too. It's not like she had no clues! Her attitude was collectively interpreted as a slap to the face!
ReplyDelete<span> but certainly not intelligent enough thinking she could still go about her business as usual in countries that felt deeply humiliated and outrageds by her visit and her disgusting embrace of that slimebag Peres!</span>
ReplyDeleteI get the outraged part, but for the life of me cannot figure out the deeply humiliated part! Why on earth should anyone in Egypt feel deeply humiliated by Shakira's decsion?That is just bizarre!
I hate it when a star (singer/actor/whatever) whom I liked turns out to be so... so... I don't know, small-minded, clueless, self-absorbed, reactionary?!
ReplyDeleteI have to agree, the situation is so dire, no one should get a pass.
They do it becausae they think they'll get away with it. Little do they know! Time will be a harsh judge!
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