This Mime Laughing With Refugee Children On The Run From Isis Is Surreal, Beautiful, And Starkly Hum

[Sally]

This is surely something that the children need at this time to take their minds off the war.

This Mime Laughing With Refugee Children On The Run From ISIS Is Surreal, Beautiful, And Starkly Human
—By Jenna McLaughlin

| Mon Oct. 6, 2014 5:06 PM EDT

As ISIS raises its menacing black flags to the East of Kobane, a Syrian city on the northern border with Turkey where Kurds are battling ISIS and hordes of civilians are evacuating, a mime puts on a show for Syrian refugee children in a scene straight out of Life is Beautiful. The mime, like Robert Benigni as Guido with his son Joshua in a Nazi concentration camp, makes light of a war-torn zone and the ultra-violent killers practically right outside the door by making a few practical jokes.

Reporters on the ground, including Jenan Moussa, have tweeted about ISIS's "booby trapped cars" which exploded in Kobane, street fights, constant shelling and explosions, and the atmosphere of pure terror as night falls in Syria. But just outside the city, children watch and play along with a mime's hand gestures, enraptured. In a second video, the mime plays with a puppet of a small child, and a member of his audience takes the puppet's hand.

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[Book of Jeremiah]

Very sweet. What insanity for any child to have to live around such violence? Where is the UN? Where are the UN Peacekeepers? The same place they were in Rwanda. Nowhere to be found. They are busy holding an emergency session for Israel not dropping enough warning leaflets before they defend themselves from the same type of bloodthirsty war happy terrorists. Absolutely unbelievable. The UN is the most useless organization on the face of the earth! We should have cut ties with that useless bunch many years ago!