Israeli Café Offers Half Price Hummus For Arabs And Jews Who Eat Together

[Turborama]

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Source: Huffington Post

A new effort to bring peace to the Middle East has been launched - from an Israeli hummus bar. The restaurant – named the Hummus Bar – is offering a 50% discount to Arabs and Jews who dine on the chickpea dish together.

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Kobi Tzafrir, owner of the café, which is in Kfar Vitkin, told Al Jazeera he wanted to show there were Arabs and Jews who were not part of the violent events reported in the media.

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He said: “We want to show that we're all human beings, just like each other, not so different."

He added the initiative has been a success, with some groups turning down the discount and paying the full price as a mark of support.

Speaking to the Times of Israel, Tzafrir said: “If there’s anything that can bring together these peoples, it’s hummus.”

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There's actually a documentary about how hummus can be a recipe for peace in the Middle East....

[iandhr]

1. There is a scene in a Sasha Baron Cohen movie.

Cohen plays a gay Austrian fashion designer. He interviews a Israeli and a PLO official. He gets them both to agree to the statement hummus is healthy and then says. "So we are making progress."

[KamaAina]

2. As a Gentile, I demand half-price hummus for eating with either!

[jberryhill]

3. As a Gentile, you are not getting a discount from either of them.

Dear Jury,

Yes, yes, I know. Still, Kamaaina set me up.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. I'd eat it with just about anyone

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I love me some hummus . Of course, to tolerate some people I might need some alcohol.

[Turborama]

5. According to their FB page, they cater for that need...

https://www.facebook.com/Mhumusbar/posts/1690316271200214

[840high]

6. I'd pay full price and eat with them. Yummy.

[merrily]

7. It's easy to make, esp. if you use canned chick peas instead of dried (purists insisting on dried).

Using canned chick peas and a blender or food processor, you can make a ship of the desert load of it in well under ten minutes. I don't use a recipe, but that's an easy google.

[merrily]

11. Some of the "jokes" on this thread would not be tolerated about other groups that comprise a

minority in this country. But, why drone on about it? They're only Middle Easterners.

[GoneFishin]

12. Very cool.

[YOHABLO]

13. Let's make it a threesome and I'll take the Israeli and the Arab home with me. Hot looking men!