Watch and listen to this impassioned speech by Mandy Patinkin at the Peace Now Conference in Tel Aviv today. He tells a story of a journey to Hebron 30 years ago with his pregnant wife. They blessed their unborn child by rubbing her belly on the stone of Isaac’s tomb and he contrasts this with the pain he felt by what he witnessed returning on this trip.
That’s only the beginning of the story. Listen to him talk about his fears, facing his fears and finding strength. There are times his anger and frustration comes thru. After signing the petition of support for Israeli artists refusing to perform in the settlement of Ariel he got slammed:
I call myself an American Disneyland Jew… safe never attacked… we live in freedom, I was attacked in my own homeland, by my own people.
Patinkin hosted the conference.
(Hat tip Dena Shunra)
At :56 he says most people at Nor Samaia were discouraging his production. What is Nor Samaia?
” I was attacked in my own homeland, by my own people.”
Shocking! Imagine how Americans feel being attacked in their homeland by Jews, a foreign people from a foreign homeland.
Maybe Mandy should go back to his people and his homeland.
I am sure the American Disneyland can do without him, and he would have a wonderful chance to mend fences with his people in his homeland instead of living a luftmensch life in Galut with real Americans (aka goyim).
So rise up from the shmutz and dreck of Exile among the shgotzim and make Aliyah, Mandy!
That was a beautiful, thoughtful and moving speech by Mr. Patinkin. Nicely done!
Inigo Montoya joins Peace Now.
I liked his story about Hebron. Are there similar stories of celebrities going back to Israel proper after 1948, going to some Palestinian villages, and asking “Where is everybody”?