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...Hanania gets a big laugh, and relief lightens the nightclub air. To the Jerusalem crowd, he may be an Arab, but he's not dangerous - just subversively funny. A few jokes into his routine, Hanania, 53, a U.S. citizen raised in Chicago, is making his Jewish audience laugh at themselves and at the luckless, ordinary Arabs living in the U.S. after 9/11 who are often branded as terrorists by their countrymen...
...stand-up comedians to Tel Aviv and three Jerusalem venues, one of them a synagogue. They never made it into the Palestinian territories; two of the comics hold Israeli passports and are banned from travel there. The tour's aim, says Hanania, was to show that "If we can laugh together, we can live together...
...fears. "In Israel, laughter is a necessity, a survival thing," says Waraday. Shortly after a suicide bombing in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, Waraday got an email from a woman who wanted to see the comedy tour. "She said, 'I live in Eilat, and I really need a laugh.' And I thought: 'Wow! That's what it?s all about...
...clean and a nice-looking guy" and declared that this was a first for African-American presidential candidates. Generally, the first thing that happens when someone commits a boner like this is that everybody else--political rivals, journalists, news junkies, even his or her staff--has a good laugh. Then all the players declare how saddened they are or how angry they are and demand an apology...
...empting the appearance of his rivals, Interior Minister and presidential front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy provided a letter that defense attorneys read "lending my support to your paper, which is rooted in the old French tradition of satire" - one, he noted, that "allows us in the name of liberty to laugh at anything...