Who doesn’t love a little laugh?

It’s always good to laugh about the conflict–especially if it doesn’t involve the usual slew of racist jokes that both Israelis, Palestinians and all in between have come up with to make light of an often dark situation.

And that’s where Sascha Baron Cohen comes in. In his much anticipated film, Bruno, he travels to Israel as a gay Austrian journalist and interviews unknowing political officials and passers by. As usual, he has a way of asking just the right questions and poking fun in just the right places.

In my favorite clip so far, Bruno interviews Yossi Alpher, former Mossad Cheif, and Ghassan Khatib, a former Palestinian Minister. He asks the former Mossad Chief, “Vy are you so anti-Hamas? Isn’t pita bread the real enemy?”.

And if you really get going, and want to enjoy more Bruno, you should check out the Digg interview below. Here Bruno tackles tough questions like, “What’s a better accessory for a lady in today’s modern world? A gay best friend or an African baby?” and my favorite “What do you think was Hitler’s impact on military fashion?Take a look, you must–it’s priceless.

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About Alis

Alis is a human rights activist, writer and part-time hermit. She was born in New York City, raised in Seattle, studied in Cambridge and the Pioneer Valley, and for the past five years has lived in Palestine. To make money, she works in what they called “international relations” in college, but what she thinks more effectively should be described as abusing the written word and acting as the unnecessary cultural buffer between the east and the west. She is currently a refugee of all things Israeli and is surviving in the last liberal enclave in Palestine, Ramallah, where she is resisting exodus with the few friends she has left and books she’s managed to steal from the net.

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