Roseanne Barr Compares Mideast Conflict to Los Angeles

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A 3:35 a.m. rant from Roseanne Barr earlier this week: "I said Israel will attack any boat carrying doctors and medical supplies--they have turned away the red cross already and all medical and food assistance. Israel is a NAZI state. The Jewish Soul is being tortured in Israel. The destruction of the jews in Israel has been assured with this inhuman attack on civilians in gaza. Hamas is the street gangs---this is equivilent to los angeles attacking and launching war on the people of watts to attempt to kill the bloods and the crips." Barr planned to travel with pro-Palestinian activists on a protest boat that was trying sail from Cyprus to Gaza, but it was forced to turn back by the Israeli Navy. (h/t Michael Freund)

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Geez, her ear for Middle Eastern geopolitics seems about as good as her one for music.

As Roseanne is Jewish, she will be probably be labeled a self-hater by supporters of the Gaza bombings.

If there's something Roseanne knows, it's the LA Streets. I'm sure she's read about them from her mansion behind the gates of Rolling Hills.

Her sentence structure literally pains me.

I love when celebrities get involved in situations like these.

It seems to make sense to me, but that may be because I'm against Israel's destruction of the Palestinian people. While Hamas is the problem, Israel has done nothing but stoke that fire for years and then they act all surprised when they close down all borders, destroy their economy, steal their land, and kill their civilians that someone out there would actually want to hurt them.

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