frgdr.com » ehud ulmert http://frgdr.com/blog Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:07:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 One Line Post About Israeli Politicshttp://frgdr.com/blog/2008/01/12/line-post-israeli-politics/ http://frgdr.com/blog/2008/01/12/line-post-israeli-politics/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:38:55 +0000 Shahar Golan http://frgdr.com/blog/2008/01/12/line-post-israeli-politics/ The Three Musketeers of Contemporary Israeli Politics
When did our leaders change from modest people who rode the bus to work, to millionaires who live in towers?

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Many shows on Israeli TV feature a sign-language interpreter in the corner of the screen for the benefit of the Israeli hearing impaired. While there is nothing wrong with my hearing, from time to time I find myself watching the interpreter rather than the show. I know very little about sign language: I know it is different in each country -- and I know how to sign ‘I love you’. That’s pretty much it, except I have noticed the interpreters spell the letters of certain names, but have specific signs for popular ones – so when I first noticed the sign-language lady on the nightly news making a comb-over gesture when the anchorman said ‘Ehud Olmert’, I was certain I was mistaken. Only after finding the following video on the Israeli sign language website SignPedia, did I begin to believe my own eyes:

Ehud Olmert, who has been in the public eye for years, has always had a comb-over in a futile effort to disguise his receding hairline. It has only been a couple of years since he stopped fooling himself and accepted his baldness, so I guess the gesture for his name was invented a long time ago, which is rather funny to watch now, because it seems like deaf people all over Israel are making fun of him.

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