Celebrities have ‘other needs’ (Bar Refaeli)

The P J Tatler ^ | May 11, 2011 | The Manolo

[decimon]

“Celebrities have other needs,” so says the Israeli super-duper model Bar Refaeli, she of the Illustrated Sports sexy swimsuit edition, and the part-time girlfriend of the aging boy actor, Leonardo DiCaprio.

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...she used the fake marriage to avoid having to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, something required of all young Israelis, both male and female.

Here is the full quote from the Israeli website Ynet.com.

“I really wanted to serve in the IDF, but I don’t regret not enlisting, because it paid off big time,” she said. “That’s just the way it is, celebrities have other needs. I hope my case has influenced the army.

“Israel or Uganda, what difference does it make? It makes no difference to me. Why is it good to die for our country? What, isn’t it better to live in New York? Why should 18-year-old kids have to die? It’s dumb that people have to die so that I can live in Israel.”

The operative word here being “dumb.” Yes, the Bar Refaeli is immature and selfish and shallow, but more than that, she is just dumb.

Does she not know that the respectable peoples usually couch their objections to personal military service in more nuanced terms. The bien pensants do not say, “I did not serve because I wanted to party down in Ibiza, or New York, or Yale” but rather, “I did not serve because the military is taking advantage of the poor minorities, discriminating against the gays, and chopping down the rain forest with the depleted uranium chainsaws.”

This is how it is done by the smart peoples.

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[decimon]

Pretty in ping.

[dynachrome]

“Israel or Uganda, what difference does it make?”

Well, I hope the ignorant (insert bad word here) gets the opportunity to live permanently in Uganda.

[ConservativeStatement]

[Tamar1973]

I’m glad she didn’t serve in the IDF. She has the IQ of a rock. She probably doesn’t have enough intelligence to learn how to pull a pin out of a grenade.

[dfwgator]

So she got out of the IDF to serve as Leo DiCaprio’s beard.

[JimBianchi11]

Hot, but stupid.

[Talisker]

Yes, the Bar Refaeli is immature and selfish and shallow, but more than that, she is just dumb.

Let's be real - the last thing anyone cares about is her mind.

[ConservativeStatement]

Naive and self-centered.

[Snickering Hound]

Not Guilty.

[frithguild]

I'll drink to that with giant teeth ping!

[frithguild]

doesn’t have enough intelligence to learn how to pull a pin out of a grenade

Not so sure - seems similar to her likely skill set. She is probably trainable.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Beauty is only skin deep but stupid runs deep.

And knowing how self-absorbed she is makes her automatically less attractive. If I spent a party weekend in Vegas with her I’d sneak out early on Sunday morning and not even wait until the 11:00 check out time. So there. (heh heh)

[ßuddaßudd]

. . . . and twice on Sunday if she’s lucky . . .

[Tamar1973]

Not so sure - seems similar to her likely skill set. She is probably trainable.

Only as a suicide bomber.

[SJackson]

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[Jewbacca]

She’s a draft dodging bitch.

[Jewbacca]

Sorry, guilty. Zero respect for this draft-dodging bitch.

[Jewbacca]

A REAL Israeli Supermodel, Esti Ginzburg, in her IDF uniform.

""In order to contribute and help, in order to be part of the State," Ginzburg said, "enlisting is a duty, not a choice. There are a million of things I don't feel like doing, but I do them because I have to. Military service is part of the things I believe in, the values I was raised on.""

[decimon]

Is that a salute or is she shading her eyes? ;-)