Israeli–Palestinian Comedy Tour
Arab-American Palestinian comedian and award-winning journalist Ray Hanania and his companions from the Israeli–Palestinian Comedy Tour operate under the slogan: "If we can laugh together, we can live together".
The shows were internationally acclaimed[citation needed] and the duo organized a second tour of Israel and the Palestinian territories in June 2007.
Israeli–Palestinian Comedy Tour is the show of an American-Palestinian Ray Hanania and three Jewish comedians Charley Warady, Aaron Freeman and Yisrael Campbell, two of whom live in Israel.
[5] All their performances are filled with sparkling jokes, satire and humor about Middle East conflict that many believe is not a laughing matter.
Once at the beginning of the show given in one of the Chicago synagogues with mostly Jewish audience Hanania asked innocently: "How many Arabs are here tonight?"
He asks what 57-year-old menopausal grandmother who blew herself up not so long ago hoped to get in the Arab paradise: What would they possibly have told this woman — that she'll have 72 kids who'll call every day and visit once in a while?
"[9] Ray Hanania, Aaron Freeman Yisrael Campbell and Charley Warady revived the early comedy effort to bring everyone together with a new coalition of Palestinians and Muslims who are willing to work not just with Jews, but also Israelis, and Israelis who are willing to work not just with Muslims and Arabs but with Palestinians, the most difficult hurdle to overcome.
The new coalition includes many more comedians including Ray's Jewish son, Aaron Hanania, and Palestinian Muslim Mona Aburmishan, Muslim Pakistani Arif Choudhury, Israeli Benji Lovett, and Jewish comic Larry Bloom.
The Israeli Palestinian Comedy troupe is the most mixed Arab-Jewish, Palestinian-Israeli, Muslim, Christian and Jewish group performing.
"[10] The new website is [11] http://www.IsraeliPalestinianComedy.com Stand Up For Peace is the name of the show performed by two men: a Jew Scott Blakeman and an Arab Dean Obeidallah.
