Posted on 12/25/2023 10:01:34 AM PST by af_vet_1981
“I thought it was important to physically show up, and take the risk of being here because I don’t take freedom for granted,” she said. “I fought very hard for my freedom. And when I see people here, they’re not fighting for land, or wealth, or power – they’re fighting for the right to exist – and that’s why I felt it was important for me to come here.
“When [the October 7 massacre] happened, I felt I had to come. These are my people: How could I not come?”Haart is one of the procession of celebrities who have visited Israel in recent weeks to show their support, among them comic Jerry Seinfeld and actors Michael Rapaport and Debra Messing.
Haart’s series, My Unorthodox Life, chronicled how she grew up ultra-Orthodox in the US, married young, had four children, and then left the fold. She remarried and subsequently divorced Silvio Scaglia, with whom she ran his fashion and modeling talent management company Elite World Group.
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I can’t generate any respect for her.
For showing up to support the IDF?
Good on her.
Is she visiting Gaza or Israel?
She is speaking truth to power.
Visiting Israel Defense Forces currently serving in Gaza, sort of like Leonard Cohen did in the Yom Kippur war.
Thanks, FRiend.
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