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.

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[martian_22]

I just don't believe actors and singers on foriegn policy.
I get the real perspective from acrobats and fire-eaters.

[F.J. Mitchell]

"Maybe that's "our" role as Artists."

Artist is as artist does, Hanoi gal!

[F.J. Mitchell]

Just like a woman to be offended by how she is dressed. Us guys as is our way, all undressed her with our eyes-now that was offensive. Once the bandages are off our eyes, I doubt that any of us will do that again.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Plastic surgery failed Jane long ago-her present deuglyfier was previousely tha master of design for those horror flick masks.

[Happy2BMe]

The only thing I like about Jane is her looks.

Some things never change.

When is her trip toBaghdad planned?

Think she'll interview sadamn?

[Happy2BMe]

"I just don't believe actors and singers on foriegn policy. I get the real perspective from acrobats and fire-eaters."

You must be referring to the HollyRat party in California.

[JudyB1938]

One of my sons said I need to get rid of hate in myself before I die. I told him I didn't hate anybody. I forgot. I hate Jane Fonda with all of my being.

That is a sin I will go to my maker with, because I can't let go of my hatred for that traitor. I have tried, but I can't stop hating her.

She has nothing but contempt for our country and for our military. She deserves no slack. She is of her father, the devil! (If I am wrong, please forgive me, Jesus.)

[Howlin]

Now stop it! Leaving aside why you would want to even IMAGINE what that old bat looks like, are you typing in brail till your eyes heal?

[tazman3]

I was going to post a reply but you all have already said it. The fact that Hanoi Jane is back out there, up to the same tactics, isn't worth the news coverage. In fact, I'd suggest killing this whole thread.

Her escapades should be less newsworthy than the guy covering the news at an outhouse in Iceland. Unless, of course, she fell in.

[judicial meanz]

Everyone hears about Jane when they "go in". They also hear about her passing the note the POW handed her to get out to American authorities. She simply handed it from the POW to their North Vietnamese keepers, who tortured him later for it.

[kingcanuteus]

Does anyone know the actual details of her supposed conversion to Christianity?

[optimistically_conservative]

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

Then maybe we'd all have a different opinion of the terrorists !?!

[SouthernFreebird]

She's the reason the C*nt word is still a part of our language.

[Wolfstar]

It's not in my personality to be a hater, but Jane Fonda is one of the handful of people I genuinely hate. With her simpering, fawning love of American's enemies, that traitorous c--- has personally visited tremendous pain and suffering upon far too many people — most notably many of our Vietnam-era POW's. She needs to crawl back into the sewer from whence she came. My childhood infatuation with all-things Hollywood came to a screeching and irrevocable end when JF planted her stinking butt on a VietCong artilery piece. I don't know if there is a hell, but if there is, I hope there's a particularly vile corner of it all picked out for this rotten excuse for a human being. Only the decorum called for on an open forum like this prevents me from using the worst gutter language I can think of to describe her.

[Wolfstar]

Just look at the love in that simpering face in the photo of her with ass planted on Viet Cong artilery, and look at the earnest pleading in those blood-stained hands. When did she EVER demonstrate such fawning concern for her country and countrymen?! Rot in hell, Janey, girl, 'cause you ain't gettin' no props around here. Scum, scum, scum, scum, scum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL, The devil made me say that.

[2timothy3.16]

And the young armned man says "Wow, you're older than dirt."

[2timothy3.16]

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

Now that's stupid, really, really stupid! Think man, Why would the terrorist scum bags want to blow up a fellow terrorist slug?




























MJY1288, I'm kidding about the stupid part.

[2timothy3.16]

SI this for real?? Is she a convicted felon?