Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi's one-woman show tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for equality, c | dG1fdzRnS1N5NmlhSG8
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00:00when I tell people yeah I'm writing comedy they're like what and then I have
00:06to explain I was at the UN I was trying to make peace and I couldn't do it so
00:11now I'm doing it through a comedy
00:15my parents said let's not raise our kids to be normal Israelis
00:43let's move to the only place in the country where Jews and Palestinians live
00:49together by choice dreaming of peace dreaming my best friend Ranine she's a
00:54Palestinian she looks like Gigi Hadid I look like Ahmadinejab next to her
00:59Palestinians know the things that I'm saying Palestine comedy festival the
01:04oppressed doesn't come from an ignorant perspective never I'm only staying for
01:07seven minutes not 70 years the Jewish audience is where we have to work not a
01:19good time to be leftist in Israel not fun he's like nodding I just read the news
01:24you're you're fucked
01:27so if there's no peace here they'll already be
01:32because if there's no peace here it means that there's no way to the Arabs here
01:35in 24 hours a thousand people were killed in Gaza's trip
01:41My goal is not to get out of here.
01:44My goal is to show the voice of opposition
01:49to the powerful force that everyone will be like the Jews.
02:01My name is Noam, and this is my show, Coexistence My Ass.
02:08Let's begin with my ass.
02:11Let's begin with my ass.