''It is 60 years of Israel's independence, which also means that it is 60 years of suffering of the people who were here,'' he said. You mean, the suffering of the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, '47-48, which was demolished and plundered by the Arab Legion in '48. You mean the suffering of the inhabitants of Gush Etzion in '48. You mean the suffering of Jewish Jerusalem, Ben Yehuda Street, of the Hadassah doctors and nurses. You mean the Jewish victims of the '36-'39 Arab terror campaign. You mean the Jewish victims of the 1929 Safed massacres, Hebron massacre, the 1921 Jaffa riots, the 1920 "Nebi Musa" Jerusalem riots, and so on, and so forth. You talk about 'suffering' of others, while you ride roughshod over the suffering of Holocaust survivors with your Valkyries? So, Mr. Barrenboim, you are more than welcome to make yourself scarce during Israel's 60 year celebrations, and we would not wish you back again.

A great man.

Baremboin, what a cheap way to make yourself recognised. is it only for the money?

I would have respect for this mans position IF he was there on scene to protest the Palestinian suicide bombers using rat-laced nails & ball bearings to increase the suffering of innocents or in Sdrot to protest the indiscriminate rocketing again of innocent civilians where children were killed. This man is a moral idiot.

and deport him to Gaza where he can live "peaceably" with his chosen people. The guy is proof positive that liberalism is a mental disorder.

What a filthy, vile, leftist bum!! The man would have NO RIGHTS in a nation controlled by muslimes. ' IF Israelis have any smarts, they will boycott this traitor. Expel him to Ramalla.

That's why he's so appreciated in foreign countries! Another self hated jew, What a retard, go take some history lessons, mister conductor! - "60 years of suffering for the palestinians" AHAHAHHA, stop kidding me! What palestinians,? Are you talking about these arabs who were living on the other side of the Jordan river? The same who declared war in 1948, 1973 and still after so many years express their joy upon every new murder of jews in Israel and in the world, or contest the Shoah?

Where is the problem ? he is Palestinian.....

How about protesting the German occupation of Lusatia (Lausitz) and the suffering of the Sorbians by refusing to hold concerts in Berlin? Mr. Barenboim, you are a hypocritical ignoramus!

Edward Said = intellectual? LOL Guys, you are killing me. *Cracking up*

I wish we had a place to send sick jews like baronoim

thank you.

It's positively appalling for this amoral, soulless excuse for a human being to pontificate about the bogus history of the "Palestinians" over the real history of suffering and survival of the Jewish people in the Eretz Israel.

He's a traitor and a self-hating Jewish enemy of Israel. Let this bastard look in the eyes of over relatives of the hudreds dead Jews since the Oslo Process and remember what really matters here - Jewish suffering.

in another place and time, he'd have his head handed to him by his beloved peace partners. He is what we call a very usefull idiot.... POS

And all that ego and arrogance gets into the way between himself and the art. It is most painful having to sit through anything he either plays or conducts or says as a result of his unbounded conceit. In other words... Barenboim is nowhere in the leagues of the truly great artists. He deserves the YMCA gym for his venue.

Israel should just bar his entry and shut the hell up.

He should be judged for inciting arabs to assassinate jews.

as an ex-musician, glad I never looked up at this conductor and hope nobody looks up to him now..... he's a guy with a little stick and a confused schtick ...

Daniel Barenboim has figured out that if your muical tours and your CDs are not selling anymore, anti-Israel nonsense will get you back in the game. Barenboim has not had a successful CD in decades but he must think that attacking Israel will make him a big hit in Europe. He should apologize now.

How to read correctely before starting your argument and insulte. He even didn't say anything bad about you. And as far as those people will have their state sided by you at some point, why don't guys help who want to help to make it happened. Maybe this comming 60 celebration will taste just more greater. to # 1, you are talking about holocust on 1929 and 36 and other, it didn't happened before 1942. and at the time under the british rulling you booth fighted them and the arab were not armed as you were, but that is history some time music can help fix what military and politic can't do. peace for all of you

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF YEHUDAH MENYUHIN,...THE THOUGHT IS FOR OTHER PEOPLE FIRST ,AND YOUR OWN PEOPLE OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE....HOW ABOUT A NICE CONCERT IN NABLUS FOR THE YOUNG BOY WHO LOST A LEG IN S'DEROT MR BARENBOIM?

Otávio Paz, a mexican poet and a very lucid man, write once that intelectuals of the twentieth century have courted abjection. Nothing new under the sun as the 21rst go on, so...

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! who needs him??????????????