{"id":2161,"date":"2011-05-22T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T21:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2011-05-22T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T21:16:51","slug":"israeli-born-kiss-star-gene-simmons-on-1967-borders-obama-has-no-fucking-idea-what-world-is-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/israeli-born-kiss-star-gene-simmons-on-1967-borders-obama-has-no-fucking-idea-what-world-is-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Born Kiss Star Gene Simmons On 1967 Borders: &#8220;Obama Has No Fucking Idea What World Is Like&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/myths_genesimmons_170x170.6556216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/myths_genesimmons_170x170.6556216-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"myths_genesimmons_170x170.6556216\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/myths_genesimmons_170x170.6556216-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/myths_genesimmons_170x170.6556216.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NUd1s2-Nzqo\">this awesomeness<\/a>, Kiss star Gene Simmons &#8212; who was born and partially raised in Haifa, Israel, with the name Chaim Witz &#8212; recently contributed something equally excellent to the world:  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WjMrTiVJNdI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Video via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mulhollanddose\">mulhollanddose<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Partial transcript:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>JANE WELLS, CNBC:<\/b> What do you think of President Obama\u2019s suggestion that the borders be redrawn pre-67?<\/p>\n<p><b>GENE SIMMONS, KISS:<\/b> President Obama, I voted for an idea. What I didn\u2019t realize what I was getting was an idealist. If you\u2019ve never been to the moon, you can\u2019t issue policy about the moon. You have no f\u2014king idea what it\u2019s like on the moon. For a president to be sitting in Washington, D.C., and saying, \u201cGo back to your 67 borders in Israel,\u201d how about you live there and try to defend an indefensible border nine miles wide? On one side you\u2019ve got hundreds of millions of people who hate your guts, on the other side you\u2019ve got the Mediterranean. Unless you control, in Israel, unless you control those Golan Heights, it\u2019s an indefensible position&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most pathetic body on the face of the planet.&#8221; Simmons called the U.N. a &#8220;paper tiger&#8221; that allows dictators to spread propaganda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/noel-sheppard\/2011\/05\/21\/israeli-born-kiss-guitarist-gene-simmons-67-borders-obama-has-no-f-ki\">Noel Sheppard<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to this awesomeness, Kiss star Gene Simmons &#8212; who was born and partially raised in Haifa, Israel, with the name Chaim Witz &#8212; recently contributed something equally excellent to the world: (Video via mulhollanddose.) Partial transcript: JANE WELLS, CNBC: What do you think of President Obama\u2019s suggestion that the borders be redrawn pre-67? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/israeli-born-kiss-star-gene-simmons-on-1967-borders-obama-has-no-fucking-idea-what-world-is-like\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Israeli Born Kiss Star Gene Simmons On 1967 Borders: &#8220;Obama Has No Fucking Idea What World Is Like&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[273,771,796],"tags":[1648,1649,1646,814,1653,2625,2627,1652,1651,1650,634,1654,730,1647,1534],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}