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Roger Waters slams Israeli occupation
Merav Yudilovitch
Published: 03.06.09, 09:46
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1. Jenin - site of one of the biggest Palestinian Lies
Rebecca ,   Modiin   (06.03.09)
"Peace and reconciliation" in a place like that sounds more like threats and incitement. And that after deciding the place is doing much better than he expected - so where is the acknowledgment that this wall is not all bad.
2. You are treading in deep water Roger
Dede ,   jerusalem   (06.03.09)
We Jews bless the moon once a month. You're Dark Side of the Moon is the reflection of degrading society one which will surely fail before the Jewish people ever leave Israel.
3. Gosh, Waters, what about the Palestinian minority?
JPS ,   Efrat   (06.03.09)
What a naive dupe! Did he even ask if there is a Palestinian minority that is striving for peace? Whoops? Minority? That must mean the majority don't want peace?!?!? As the Oscar winning rabbit would say: "Wadda maroon!" Did he tell the Palestinians to stop praising suicide bombers (that the wall he hates successfully keeps out)? Did he ask the Palestinians where their equivalent groups to Peace Now and other Israeli groups are? Or does he already know that they don't exist and he's playing along with the Palestinian propaganda war against us? We don't need big name propaganda tools to insult us and threaten us that "the Jewish people deserve a state of their own. " With all their war crimes and abusive society (honor killings, suicide bombing idolatry, etc) why do the Pals deserve a state? History shows that many still don't believe that the Pals should have a state where they can continue to terrorize us and their own people.
4. Who really cares what this metal head thinks.
Chaim Naveh ,   Arad   (06.03.09)
Wow. It talks. Well, at least it tries. Just another Goy who knows nothing about God's Covenant.
5. Who the hell is Roger Waters?
Ambrosine Shitrit ,   uk   (06.03.09)
roger waters?? people actually listen to his person? the same way they listent to Annie lennox? Do us all a favour...stick to music
6. The essence of the Arab Israeli conflict:
Amihai ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (06.03.09)
"When the Arabs put down their weapons, there will be no more wars. When Israel puts down its weapons, there will be no more Israel". This short and wise observation says it all about the essence of the Arab Israel conflict. Is Waters in a position of appreciating this reality, one the commenced long before he was even born? I have my doubts!!!
7. wow what a hutzpha!!!
mira ,   israel   (06.03.09)
the world has so many conflicts but only the jewish people dont deserve a state of their own???!!! not sudan, iran, china ext ext ext in his antisemitic mind only the jews dont deserve a state bcos of their conflict. wow
8. Waters, just another preeeek in the wall
Zohan ,   Tel Aviv   (06.03.09)
9. nothing new
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (06.03.09)
Roger Waters is English, a nation that never supported Jewish independence. After the defeat of the Turks, the English were given rule over Israel to help establish a Jewish state. The English proceeded to set-up Arab rule and encouraged Arab immigration from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq while preventing Jewish immigration. This anti-Jewish behavior reached its peak when the British allowed the Axis to murder six million Jews, all who could have escaped to Israel. Waters says nothing new: he is just continuing his ancestors' anti-Jewish genocidal traditions.
10. the Devition Bell was a huge flop,
ghostq   (06.03.09)
he wants attention, weird all thos British have beens like Anny Lennox, who will seld their own mother for public attention.
11. He is "hostile" to Israel / Jews. Ban him.
Liliane ,   Brighton, UK   (06.03.09)
Israel is really dumb to let this bigot into the country. He is hostile and harms Israel.
12. This guy is responsible for so many bad acid trips....
Frankie Abulafia ,   Jerusalem   (06.03.09)
...he has the broken mental state of thousands on his shoulders. Pink Floyd sucks, and anybody who disagrees is fooling themselves. They had one good song - wish you were here, and everything else was garbage. Why does Israel let these people come her and tell us a single f-ing word? Why does Y-ney print their stories? And why in the f does Roger Waters think it;s up to him to tell the Jewish people if they deserve a state or not. What a complete joke.
13. Is he "Comfortably Numb" or is it pure "Brain Damage"
JG ,   Modiin   (06.03.09)
I think I speak for many when I say, Roger, we don't "Wish you were here".
14. Roger Waters
Nili ,   Jerusalem   (06.03.09)
Since when does Israel take orders from a drugged out member of an ancient rock-band?? I know--this is our weekly smile right?
15. ghostq. #10
jj   (06.03.09)
roger waters wasnt a member of pink floyd when the division bell was recorded. as per usual, you show your general lack of intelligence.
16. To NO. 13: I think it´s more...
Jack ,   Paris   (06.03.09)
... "obscured by clouds"
17. Wow!!
Israeli ,   Israel   (06.03.09)
Waters is now a world peace expert. Doesn't he have any opinions about all the terrorist attacks committed by his wonderful friends in Jenin??
18. Waters
Ram ,   London   (06.03.09)
Israel should tell Waters to take a swim. This ignoramus-has-been hasn't the faintest idea of how evil the Palestinians are not only to Jews but to their own people. The crap he has seen both in Jenin and Gaza, (and if he bothered to go elsewhere in the territories he would have seen more of the same) is their natural backward style of living that has not been imposed on them by anyone except themselves. Lefties in Israeli are self-hating Jews who entertain all the deficient latent anti-semites who choose to visit Israel for the sole purpose of criticising it.
19. to #15 either way he also use the palis
ghostq   (06.03.09)
for easy publisity.
20. Someone please explain to Waters the PA + Hamass Charter!
Freejay333 ,   Israel   (06.03.09)
This guy really has no idea whats going on here!
21. His not hostile
Gave ,   toronto   (06.03.09)
His just jealous.
22. "Occupation", Sir, came about when Israel was attacked from
Jehudah ,   Israel   (06.03.09)
from these territories by a coalition of the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armed forces who set out to accomplish that which they were not able to do 19 years earlier: to wipe Israel off the face of earth and with it the Jewish population of the country and Jewish civilization of which Israel is its cradle. Yes, I know, you didn't know that. But isn't it appropriate to learn the background, the context of the subject with which you deal before you open your mouth with pronouncements that simply are removed from reality? You see, we don't deal with another form of entertainment here, instead, this is a question of life and death, real life and death, of real people and not of actors.
23. Israel had to be delegitimized
Noa ,   Beer Sheva   (06.03.09)
as part of the (Iranian) war against it. And the usual suspects joined in, like Germany (except for A. Merkel and a few from her party) and now B. Obama. So dear Roger, try not to be fooled and be a little subversive!
24. Mr Waters:Stick to music. Your brilliance ends right there .
Scott ,   Australia   (06.03.09)
What an idiot. Its amazing these actors , musicians think just because they can 'do good music or films' somehow it qualifies them for anything else.
25. Walls fighter
Joo ,   Eurabia   (06.03.09)
Waters was very bad in solving conflicts in his private live when he abandoned his family and kids and in music life when he had long lasting conflicts with pink Floyd members and actually stole the song that belong to the group. The wall is symbolic thing for this obsessive musician. He has no audience in arab countries and waiting for the moment for another perfomance on another wall to promote his business for moslems. Unfortunately this guy that was singing about virtual wall in his own society became blind and refuse to face the new walls built in his home land - Londonistan
26. What Nerve
leo ,   nyc   (06.03.09)
To imply that Jews don't "deserve" a state of their own ...What did the "World" ever give to the Jews except a stone bar of soap and shower jets emitting gas...
27. WATER GO TO HELL. YOU STINK GUY
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28. Which begs the question...
Terry ,   Chicago, IL   (06.03.09)
Why DO Jews have the right to a state of their own? More importantly: assuming the consensus is somehow a resounding "yes"... what implications will that have on the Christian and Muslim Arab Israelis? Israel is- ultimately- a self-proclaimed "democracy". Or does that democracy only apply to God's chosen people?
29. To the has been Roger Water : IT IS NOT UR BUSINESS MORON !
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30. Nobody listens to his music. DULL.
Jake ,   Atlanta   (06.03.09)
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