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Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg observed last week that Guantánamo has become a recurrent pop-cultural trope throughout the world – in memoirs and novels, visual arts and theater, and even song. Rosenberg, who has visited the prison many dozens of times, believes that Gitmo has long since left the island of Cuba and taken on a symbolic life of its own.
"The guy works for U.S. Immigration, and he's just seen a single male Palestinian traveling alone with suspiciously little hand luggage."
Jesus is transformed from a Jew to a Palestinian. The Irish comdedian was actally continuing a very old prejudice in a new form. It could have come from pre-Vatican II Ireland. Christinity has for centuries ignored the fact that Jesus was a Jew.
Turning Jesus into a Palestinian is no different than thinking he was blond, blue eyed, red-necked, and spoke with a Texan accent. Christian need to make up their minds as to the extent they remain a Christian if after talking about Fatherhood on Sunday, should they be perpetrating genocide rest of the week.
I do find it typical of Left-Rad theater types to re-invent Jesus as a "Palestinian male" to suit thier political message. Never mind that Jesus was born in a land called Judea, or that "Palestine" was an appellation bestowed by Rome after the Jews were expelled.
#2. You are correct. Both are wrong and self-serving. that one is done does not make the other right.
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I am as horrified and offended as your 'interviewee' by the injustices perpetrated by this administration, especially in the case of Gitmo. However fervid and skilled a reporter she may be on these issues she shows a dismally obtuse understanding of the subversive power of humor in stimulating social change. All through our history humor has been used, mercilessly and without regard for offending the thought police among us. This was a classic example of someone just NOT getting it and failing to credit the arts with their greatest gift to us--squirming discomfort.
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