Ronald McDonald Brings Peace

June 6, 2007 - 7:30 AM by Stephanie

…well not really. But wouldn’t it be great if it were that easy? Put on a red nose, some white face paint and a pair of floppy clown shoes, speak Hebrew & Arabic to the kids, pull a few magic tricks and voila, problems solved. Yeah okay. Too much sun for me today.

But East Med Sea Peace’s Lirun saw a glimpse of how he thinks things could be when he stopped off at the Jaffa branch of McDonald’s for two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onion on a sesame seed bun this week.

...a birthday was well underway.. a beautiful bunch of local kids was celebrating hysterically…a closer look and listen clarified to me that these were arab and jewish kids although it was hard to tell who was who without listening to each kid’s default language setting.. there were fair kids i expected to be jewish that were arabs including a very animated little blond girl and a very elegant and well mannered brunette.. and darker kids that surprised me with their jewish accented hebrew.

…an elderly lady with head covering walked in and saw the gathering and administered one hell of a tongue flick – middle eastern cry of joy.. sounds a bit like indians in the wild west flics.. the kids were ecstatic.. they went wild imitating her gesture..

we know how to laugh together.. surely we can do more..

You’d think, no?

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