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How do you say, ‘Let them eat cake’ in Arabic?

Michele Obama sans checkpoint
Michele Obama sans checkpoint

From the US  Consulate in Jerusalem’s facebook page. The item appears with the above photograph:


تقود ميشيل اوباما حملة لتشجيع الشباب الأمريكي على ترك الكسل مثل الجلوس على الكنبة لمشاهدة التلفاز واستعمال الحاسوب ولعب ألعاب الفيديو طوال الوقت، وتحثهم على الحركة. هل تعتقدون أن حملة كهذه يمكن تطبيقها مع الفلسطينيين؟

Michelle Obama is leading the charge to get young people off the couch, away from TV, computer, and video games, and “start moving.” Do you think such a campaign would work with Palestinians

Says my tipster: How far can they move before they’re stopped by a checkpoint? (And I see commenters have made this point.)

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How far can they move before they’re stopped by a checkpoint?

This would an interesting exercise. Could a Palestinian train for a marathon without running in circles in the WB without being stopped at a checkpoint or being shot by an Israeli sniper? Can anyone find an uninterupted 35 km track through the WB for a Palestinian? Who would have thought that Michelle could indirectly pose a question that brings up this topic.

There was this deal: we deliver the presidency, you succumb. Now, Obama, kneel for Netanyahu (we got your wife).

Only in Arabic?

Now the US Consulate in Jerusalem has been known for decades as America’s defacto embassy to the Arabs.

But you would never know from its website that Jerusalem is a Jewish-majority city.

That governmental people could state such racist slander is disgusting. But for these people racism is apparently not a bad thing when directed toward ‘palestinians’, if the word palestinians would be changed with ‘jews’ we know what the response would be. Always spin on being the victims while being the occupier..

Maybe if the paleatiniana started to use the n word to describe their status the obanas would get it. Every settler colonial state has its ns. And the women of gaza don’t tend to have too many surplus pounds either. But i guess ms o won’t be rolling out the weisglass diet in dc.