Jane Fonda visits refugee camp, hospitals in Ramallah: TALKS OUT OF REAR END, AGAIN

HA'aretz ^ | Last update - 02:04 22/12/2002 | By Ha'aretz Staff and Agencies

[Cinnamon Girl]

Jane and a scary M-16 get too close for her comfort:

An Israeli soldier checks the passport of American actress Jane Fonda, right, at Hizma checkpoint near the Jewish settlement of Pizgat Ze'ev, near Jerusalem as she makes a tour of the area by bus Saturday Dec. 21, 2002. Fonda, is on a week-long trip to the region. Others are unidentified members of her entourage. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

Jane Fonda passing an IDF roadblock on her way to Ramallah on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

American actress and activist Jane Fonda visited a refugee camp and a hospital in the West Bank on Saturday, capping a three-day visit to the region aimed at promoting peace.

Fonda, who was celebrating her 65th birthday, passed through a West Bank crossing point at Qalqilyah, trudging through mud and clutching a bouquet of red roses given to her by a Palestinian women's group.

She toured West Bank villages and nearby Israeli settlements and was led through a Palestinian refugee camp near Ramallah in a daylong tour by the Jerusalem Center for Women. Fonda also paid a visit to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat at his Muqata headquarters in the city.

It was the final visit of a trip organized by a global movement to stop violence against women. The movement, called V-Day, was inspired by the off-Broadway hit "The Vagina Monologues" and its playwright, Eve Ensler. Ensler accompanied Fonda and led discussions with Palestinian women.

"This is the focal point of so many conflicts," Fonda said. "Both sides aren't hearing each other's narratives, and maybe that's our role as artists."

Fonda and Ensler met with Fatima al-Kasba, 37, who lost two sons in fighting. Kasba said her sons, Yasser, 12, and Samer, 15, were killed a little over a month apart by IDF troops.

Later, Fonda and Ensler toured the Abu Raya Rehabilitation Center, where victims of violence and spinal cord injuries are treated and provided with physiotherapy.

Fonda, a two-time Oscar winner and fitness guru, said she had been to Israel and the West Bank in 1980, but what she saw today was dramatically different. She said she was most surprised by the number and proximity of settlements to the Palestinian population.

On Thursday, the American actress met with MKs Yael Dayan and Naomi Chazan in Jerusalem. She also visited Israelis wounded in suicide bombings who are recovering at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem.

[Nitro]

You gotta flush.. at least twice...

it's a long way to Hollyweird!!

[Taiwan Bocks]

Maybe if Jane Fonda was aboard a bus when it was blown up by one of those terrorist, She might have a different opinion

Someone please say that to her face!

[anniegetyourgun]

"Narrative"???

This broad thinks this is all playacting? Understandable coming from another Hollywood type who will never understand reality.

[2sheep]

She said she converted to Christianity. It appears she converted to ***APOSTATE*** Christianity. To side with the leftists against Israel is stinking fruit.

[bird humming]

Jane Fonda Penn, Sean Penn Fonda, they're beginning to run together! I'm waiting to see what any upcoming fact-finding journey of Babs Streisand Fonda Penn or Alex Baldwin Penn Fonda brings. ;)

[wunderkind54]

Her father, Hank, is rolling in his grave. This woman is to be despised!!

[ventana]

This motley troupe was inspired by the Vagina Monologues? Can you imagine them offering to perform the show in Islam? It should be required that, when Hollywood leftists journey as "artistic" ambassadors , before opening their mouths, they must screen an important piece from the body of their work or perform a segment of the Vagina Monologues for their hosts, particularly the Islamic hosts. (Followed by a disclaimer from the US Gov).

[KSCITYBOY]

Maybe this time instead of manning a anti-aircraft gun for the VC she will strap on a vest full of C4. Watta bitch!

[JZoback]

Fonda makes me want to

[varon]

"This is the focal point of so many conflicts," Fonda said. "Both sides aren't hearing each other's narratives, and maybe that's our role as artists." (my emphasis)

Jane hasn't been an "artist" for decades, so what the he!! is she talking about? Her most recent claim to fame was being Ted Turner's bi!ch. Is that know as "artistry"? ;-)

[Brad C.]

It was the final visit of a trip organized by a global movement to stop violence against women. The movement, called V-Day, was inspired by the off-Broadway hit "The Vagina Monologues" and its playwright, Eve Ensler. Ensler accompanied Fonda and led discussions with Palestinian women.

Perhaps while she is on that side of the world her and her friends could stop in afghanistan to talk with some of the women there who are refusing to wear burkhas. If any of them still can talk, seems the locals are starting to chop heads off if they are not covered.

[SSN558]

I was keeping score for some young Marines this summer at the national matches. Judging from comments they are not too fond of Jane. These guys weren't even born yet when Hanoi Jane committed her treasonous acts.

[Thommas]

It was the final visit of a trip organized by a global movement to stop violence against women.

Since her ostensible reason for being in the middle east was to promote peace to women, what was she doing railing against the Israelis? Where are her comments on the deplorable conditions of the muslim women? Did she entreat Arafat to give up some of his wives, or relinquish his mistresses? Did she emplor her "palastinian" hosts to remove the burkas from "their" women, allow them to travel and hold jobs?

No. She asked none of these questions. Instead, she has to pontificate on the encroachment of those bellicose jews...

[Larry381]

Make no mistake about it-her tour of BOTH Israeli & Palestinian areas seeks create a kind of moral equivalence between the 2 sides-a tactic the left is so fond of conveying. For myself, the TV scenes of Palestinians dancing in the streets on 9/11 was the only "narrative" I need.

[battlegearboat]

Someone mentioned her father rolling in his grave.

Her father was a jerk.

Her brother is a stupid, insane, criminal jerk.

Her niece is a naseating jerk.

Her mother committed suicide...the only decent thing a Fonda ever did.

[Disgusted in Texas]

Thanks to old Jane ,her history just keeps repeating itself...

[Jimmy Valentine]

Jane talking out of her rear end AGAIN?

when did she ever talk from any other orifice?

Regards,

[marty60]

You are probably to young to remember, but Jane is very close friends with Vanessa Redgrave. She was the first terrorist fundraiser(publically. She made big news going to the terrorists training camps, shooting their commie made guns. Wearing the Pali scarf etc etc.

She even had the nerver to mention the ZIONIST conspiracy at the OSCARS. With Jane smiling in the audience. Commies never change their stripes, even when they get old. (her plastic surgeon must live in a mansion.

[LRRP 69]

idiot yes, but there is another,Sen. murray should go by the name jane fonda murray,maybe osamas mama, she spoke in a school in washington,and does't know why everyone hate osama,he built daycare,roads,and got food to the hungry as well as schools. people like jane and sen. murray either forgot or are to stupid to remember hitler,castro,Ho and the list can go on did it, hearts and minds, if either one of these idiots would have been on hill 937 in May of 69 I would'nt have to waste my time typing their names,,,just thought you should know of osamas mama

[zip]

She is still an idiot.

I agree with others on this tread - 65 isn't too old to hang.