Jason Alexander Visits Israel To Promote Peace

JERUSALEM — Former Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander says he isn't kidding around when it comes to promoting Mideast peace.

Alexander, who played George Costanza in the legendary sitcom for a decade, was asked by Israeli President Shimon Peres in a meeting on Tuesday for advice on how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Alexander said, that through comedy and humor, he hopes to help advance the idea of two states for two people.

Peres playfully asked the actor if he could call him "George." Alexander laughed, and pointing to a crowd of reporters, said: "You can. Not them."

He met with Peres during a visit to the Holy Land with a delegation from OneVoice, an international grassroots group working with mainstream Israelis and Palestinians to encourage peace.

Comments

[Seawolf56]

09:50 AM on 10/26/2011

Go for it Jason! Albert Brooks already did a movie about this idea "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World". I wish comedy could fix whats happening, but saddly I fear even the talents of "Grorge" won't matter. Best of luck

[haganj3]

11:13 PM on 10/25/2011

"I was in the pool! I was in the pool!"

[Haroldpom]

06:07 PM on 10/25/2011

Jason Alexander could probably get Larry David to write a script about Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Jerry Seinfeld would play Netanyahu. Jason Alexander would play Foreign Minister Leiberman. Julia Louis-Dreyfus would play Livni and of course Michael Richards would play Abbas.
Of course it wouldn't lead to a peace agreement but it could be good for a laugh. Goodness knows we could all use a good laugh once is a while. We all get pretty serious talking about peace even though none of us can solve the conflict.

[Vic22]

05:27 PM on 10/25/2011

George Costanza is not who you want if you need a problem solved.

CAN"T STANDJA!

[lawdini]

04:08 PM on 10/25/2011

Why doesn't George suggest a "contest". Which country can go the longest without self-satisfying themselves. Winner take all.

[lawdini]

04:07 PM on 10/25/2011

"I agree with the president of Iran."

Ok, I can stop reading there.

[Gary Drechsel]

04:00 PM on 10/25/2011

They should do the opposite of anything he says.

[clownprince]

03:40 PM on 10/25/2011

I agree with the president of Iran who suggested a few years back that perhaps the Germans should have given up some of their own land, since the Germans were responsible for the atrocities during WWII. The Palestinians had nothing to do with that, so why was their land taken away from them.
The two-state solution is the only solution, and the Palestinians dont have a problem with that.

[claude b]

04:12 PM on 10/25/2011

I guess Jews would have loved to live in the land that tried to destoy them rather then the land of their ancestors.(where jews have lived for 3000 years)and I am for two states solution.

[UnknownSolider]

05:17 PM on 10/25/2011

Which jews? Jews come from the source of the Nile river (Burundi,Rwanda, Uganda area), they also lived in Egypt for a time........... Do they have a claim to those lands too?

[kitty127]

04:16 PM on 10/25/2011

The Jewish people have never totally left Israel. They have maintained a presence in this area for thousands of years, despite the large diasporas due to persecution. The first large diaspora after the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. was where most of the European Jews come from. They did not willingly leave the area, unless you consider the threat of death willingly. Germans didn't want the jews in their country or they wouldn't have killed them. Additionally, there were jews who were exiled by the German government before the holocaust, including my relatives. As far as getting along with each other, I'm sure both sides have things to work on. Neither should be marginalized or eliminated. Both are seeds of Abraham and should learn to live in harmony. Learn before you make such dogmatic statements about people you know nothing about and have no connection to.

[mo524]

03:32 PM on 10/25/2011

This kind of reminds me of a movie I forget the name but a comedain was in the middle east talked about a bomb meaning his show didn't go well then the local intell officers started to follow him around.

[Whiskeyman09]

03:28 PM on 10/25/2011

If nothing else he can let them know who bought the Big Salad and can definitely have a conversation on who took the raisins. Maybe you didn't take the raisins...but maybe you did. You can come into my office anytime and we can have a laugh about it...because my door is open! Just think it's kind of weird to take the raisins...

But George...don't attempt to spell everyone's last name. And no sex on the desk with the cleaning lady. Yes, that's wrong!

[Rosin the Bow]

03:25 PM on 10/25/2011

He'll be fine as long as he doesn't double dip the chip...

[rsticks18]

02:56 PM on 10/25/2011

we all know kramer is the right guy to talk peace

[radicalcentrist44]

02:52 PM on 10/25/2011

George is qualified: he worked on the Penske file, negotiated inter-league baseball with the Houston Astros, almost converted to Latvian Orthodox and sat on the board of Susan's charitable foundation after she passed.

[yaskeptik]

05:07 PM on 10/25/2011

I'm not so sure...
Although, while being George, he saved the whale (aka the big fish) despite "The sea was angry that day..." , he, while being Jason Alexander, refused to coordinate the tip with Georges Co-Creator.
Seriously, if he manages to resolve ME conflict, it'll be second only to engineering the Switch.
It's like discovering plutonium by accident

[blacksmithn]

02:46 PM on 10/25/2011

Serenity Now!!!

[greenj76]

02:27 PM on 10/25/2011

Moses wrote under inspiration in Deuteronomy 7:6-8 that God did choose the Jewish people to be a special people unto Himself and He did this because He loved them, not for any other reason. Down through history, God has preserved the Jewish people and used them as an illustration to the rest of humankind. The Lord does have an agenda for the Jews that He revealed in four covenants to them: the Abrahamic Covenant, Genesis 12, the Land Covenant, Deuteronomy 30, the Davidic Covenant, II Samuel 7, and the New Covenant, Jeremiah 31:31.

These promises from God reveal the Jews will be a nation with a piece of land and a Messiah ruling from a Temple in Jerusalem forever.

[clownprince]

02:53 PM on 10/25/2011

The Bible says a lot of things. So what?

[ussuri]

03:02 PM on 10/25/2011

Jesus said that the Old Testament is obsolete.