Bill Clinton sings "Imagine" in Israel (Great Story!)

[Flying_Pig]

At a recent birthday celebration held in Israel for former Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Peres', Bill Clinton was a featured guest.

"Greeted like a rock star", Mr. Clinton performed John Lennon's song "Imagine", with a choir consisting of 40 Israeli children, and 40 Palestinian children...."most of the people in the audience were crying."

One of the attendees commented that, "People are so tired in Israel. They just want peace."

Lik to article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/08/DD162015.DTL

COMMENT: The people of Israel must realize, that the path to peace will not be found with war-mongers like Ariel Sharon, and his Likud party. Similarly, in the U.S., our path to peace will not be found with the Bush/PNAC cabal, who's hate and corruption has infected our nation, and both political parties.

Both nations must cast these these people out, if there is to be any hope at all for the children of Israel, the Middle East, and our own kids here in the U.S. Let's make it so.

F.P.

[bushclipper]

1. I hope he sounded better than Ashcrofft...

Let the eagle sooooooooooooar!

[nannygoat]

7. Here's the link for those who had the misFORTUNE to miss it the first time

John Ashcroft singing his song "Let the eagles soar"
http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html

[Flying_Pig]

8. Oh, spare us this joy please!

:puke:

[buff2]

9. EEEEEEEEEEK!

Hearing that sent a wave of nausea over me like I've never had before. Does that idiot really think he can SING???? :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Flying_Pig]

10. He doesn't sing, he squawks, snorts, and oinks.....

:evilgrin:

[Avalux]

15. Whoa

that was ummmm.....horrible. He wrote the thing too - complete with "God as the only king" or something to that effect. :puke:

[Drifter]

2. Why isn't Clinton ...

part of the US effort to bring peace in the ME?

Oh wait ... I forgot ... he got a blowjob in Oval Office. He ain't qualified.

Cheers
Drifter

[Flying_Pig]

5. He's not a part of it because Bush is too weak to stand in his

shadow. Also, Bush/PNAC/Sharon, don't want peace. They want war, real estate, and oil. War is the plan. Syria and Iran are next.

[Rashind]

6. You're damn right he's not qualified!!!

I mean, shameful, dispicable, ARRRRRG! Why can't he just satisfy his manly urges by killing Iraqi babies, like our current wonderful Pres? Heaven help us if anyone listens to this... FORNICATOR!!!

*wakes up* Oh god, what happened? I needs me medicine...

:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:
:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

[Bandit]

14. I think you need more than medicine ~ You need a brain

Sorry your only hobby is "racking up student loans" maybe you should try getting a life.

[republicansareevil]

19. er... I think that was sarcasm, Bandit

;-)

[Bandit]

21. I hope you're right ~ I sometimes over react to posts like this

I guess we need a sarcasm thingy. It just really struck me wrong and I guess I'm overly sensitive these days.

[philosophie_en_rose]

25. it was very clearly sarcasm.

although sometimes it is very hard to tell the difference.

[fla nocount]

3. Great story.

I wonder if we'll hear it from anywhere else.

[Flying_Pig]

4. Intrestingly, I found it on the far back page of the newspaper, in a

column usually devoted to celebrity events and gossip.

[mmm]

11. Great story

And I agree with your comments

[havocmom]

12. Memo to shrub:

This is what leadership looks like!

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Tee Hee. Pulling *'s chain some more. . .

n/t

:kick:

[qb]

16. Clinton did more for ME peace in 3 minutes

than Shrub has done in 3 years.

[Terwilliger]

17. I have a problem with Bill Clinton singing `Imagine`

much more problem with him singing it to Israelis.

Let's review, shall we?

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

This won't work in Israel...they believe their presence on certain land is mandated by religion. BZZZZZZT!

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

This doesn't work for Israelis...I'm sorry, they don't think this way and they don't want to. BZZZZZZZZZT!

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

Bill Clinton? Neoliberals? PUH-LEEEEZE! BZZZZZZZZZT!

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

Bill should have joined us. BZZZZZZZZZZT!!!!!

[Zuni]

18. mandated by religion

all israelis, secular and religious believed it was their homeland taken away from them--not just ones who believed that god ordained it. All Israelis believed they had a historical right to some parts of the middle east as they once ruled it.

[LeahMira]

20. BZZZZZZT!!!!!! Back at you.

... much more problem with him singing it to Israelis.

Sorry, but you apparently don't know many (any?) Israelis.

[LeahMira]

22. They do...

COMMENT: The people of Israel must realize, that the path to peace will not be found with war-mongers like Ariel Sharon, and his Likud party. Similarly, in the U.S., our path to peace will not be found with the Bush/PNAC cabal, who's hate and corruption has infected our nation, and both political parties.

They do realize that... or at least many do.

Many Jews in America also realize that fact. I have said for quite a while now that Sharon is as bad for Israel as Bush is for the U.S. I'm encouraged... just this past week the Jewish student organization on campus actually sponsored a meeting of students who are interested in organizing to oppose the occupation. That would have been unthinkable even a year ago.

In Israel, there are soldiers who are refusing to serve in the West Bank, and just recently about 50 airmen refused to fly missions over the West Bank. Their numbers are growing slowly, but they are growing. That also would have been unthinkable not so very long ago.

At the same time, you need to realize and understand how many young men and women died in 1967 to retake Jerusalem, which is truly a city that captures Jewish emotion. Each year, at Passover, for centuries and centuries Jewish people have prayed "Next year in Jerusalem!" Not in Tel Aviv or Haifa or anywhere else... in Jerusalem.

You also have to understand how Jewish people even today feel fearful because not only of the Holocaust but because of all our history of being persecuted and driven from nation to nation. Many among us are waiting for the same kind of thing to start happening in the U.S., especially with all the Christian religious right out there trying to get power in this nation.

I remember reading a letter from an Israeli woman that was sent to one of our friends several years ago. She recalled how, as a child, she had stayed in a room with the mattresses up against the walls with her parents trying to keep her calm and to make a game out of it all. Later she came to think that at least she would never have to go through that sort of experience with her own children, but indeed she had. For the sake of her grandchildren who shouldn't have to know that experience, and for the sake of the dream of freedom in their own homeland that had brought her ancestors to Israel, she said, "OK, Mr. Arafat. Let's talk."

No one came to Israel to live in a bunker and to fight Palestinians. That is not the Zionist dream. If you want to know what Zionism is all about, check here: http://www.azm.org/essays/szonyi.html

I join you in hoping that Israelis will remember the dreams that we all cherish and will look for a way to peace. I hope the same for the Palestinian people, and also for the people of the U.S.A.

[Flying_Pig]

24. I understand all of this Leah, but a wise person once said, that we

must sometimes stop embracing our past, to forge a future. I am heartened by some events in Israel, like the refusniks, but so much more needs to be done. In Israel, like here, much of the media is captive of the right-wingers, so it will be a tough fight, but Israel must remove Sharon. Thanks for your post.

[arcane1]

23. ...."most of the people in the audience were crying."

I'm tearing up just READING this...

"imagine" indeed, that we had a human being in the White House

[_Jumper_]

26. Bump

:kick: