Right now all the talk is about the planned meeting between Bush, Sharon, and Abu Mazen. But somehow I don’t think that this meeting with Sharon will have any effect on the peace process whatsoever:
Whitney Houston on Tuesday visited Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who took time out from preparations for a summit with his Palestinian counterpart and President Bush to meet the pop diva.
“It’s home. It’s a friendship I’ve never had with any other country,” Houston, dressed in a long red robe with white embroidery, told Sharon.
Houston was in Israel with her husband, rhythm and blues singer Bobby Brown, to visit “friends and family” among the Black Hebrews, an African-American community that moved to Israel in 1969 and settled in the southern town of Dimona.
According to CNN, the “Black Hebrews” are a group of polygamous vegans who believe they are descendants of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Houston, apparently, is there looking for inspiration for her upcoming Christmas album.
I’m not sure what’s funnier: that, or the confused look on Ariel Sharon’s face when he took a photo with her.