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Open letter to Costello
Assaf Wohl
Published: 25.05.10, 00:01
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61. ghostq - You're being ironic right?
Ari Brown ,   London   (05.25.10)
You said - "south afrika is purely British tradegy, you exectued many afrikans in south afrika without trile and stole their lands, it's easy blaming jews, you did that before. and that is the incovienient truth, you r also responsible to the situation in Iraq, no I am not talking on sadam you created there civil war and india pakistan war is yours as well considering it's the same situation with Israel and palis, you created nation out of thin air, the pakistan is much worse cause india and pakistan r the same race. the list goes on y don't you take responsibility for it, no you won't cause blaming the jews in order not to pay debts is brits way of life. " 1) Executions and imprisonment without trial. 2)Stealing land. 3)Diving a nation along lines of religon for "security" reasons 4)creating a nation out of thin air? Sounds like repressed guilt to me. :0)
62. YNET: Your Aim Is True!
Emanon ,   USA   (05.25.10)
63. No. 51 George
NYC Girl   (05.25.10)
Talk about selective morality. You accuse Israel of de-humanizing its neighbors, yet you completely ignore all those Palestinian suicide bombers who caused the ultimate de-humanization of innocent Israelis...by blowing them to kingdom come. Next time you can spare us your one-sided hypocritical hand-wringing.
64. One more Brit brainwashed
Michel ,   Jerusalem   (05.25.10)
by the BBC or the Guardian ..
65. to #61 no not ironic, you weren't even smart enough you
ghostq   (05.25.10)
used other people to make small tiny achivment in ww2 the USA did the job for you, even the enigma machine you didn't decode and your monarchy isn't even british, I don't have no guilt cause during the middle ages my country didn't executed jews couple of times, you r doing it for hundreds of years, the last one was 1948 in the battle of latrun. no wait the was the holocaust survivor ship you drownd in 1948 you killed holocaust survivors. that's not reflecting guilt those r fact. oh and argentina whants fokland island back. conqurers and destroyers the shadow of a kingdom brits not empire just left over of human kind.
66. Ghosthq: What Are You Rambling About?
emanon ,   USA   (05.25.10)
67. Elvis make the right call
sami ,   chicago il   (05.25.10)
Elvis is boycotting the Israel apartheid government, not the Israeli people.
68. Awesome article - tells it like it is
Russel ,   Tlv   (05.25.10)
69. #64
mark ,   ca   (05.25.10)
Not brainwashed but brainless...
70. COSTELLO CAN GO TO HELL . HAS BEEN !
(05.25.10)
71. Excellent article.
Peter ,   UK   (05.25.10)
So true!
72. Another Genius Entertainer.
Jay ,   USA   (05.25.10)
Has anyone ever heard this guy's music? He's an untalented putz. I'd rather listen to Turkish Hip Hop than his drivel. He probably had to cancel because he couldn't sell any tickets and needed a publicity stunt to get out of it. On the other hand it wouldn't surprise me if he was as stupid as most of his acting & singing colleagues. Hating Israel & Jews is very vogue these days amongst those circles.
73. DEAR ELVIS COSTELLO
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   ISRAEL   (05.25.10)
Sir , remember to be nice to people on your way up 'cause you'll meet the same people on the way down.An old adage but oh so true..
74. Replace Costello with Parker
Bruno ,   Dublin, Ireland   (05.25.10)
How about asking Graham Parker and the Figgs perform instead of Costello. Graham's a better songwriter and he and the Figgs would rock Caesarea
75. Well said. stay away Costtelo, ISRAEL will do better
(05.25.10)
without you, believe me. Go to Gaza! they are "lovely" people. enjoy. bye bye.
76. #46
Marty ,   USA   (05.26.10)
The nuclear arms to South Africa story was a blood libel like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion cooked up by the far-left loons at that bastion of journalistic integrity (vomit) the Guardian. Your shame is that you fell for it hook, line and sinker. The real story is that the South Africans tried to get the Israelis to sell them the technology and the Israelis NEVER did. It takes a newspaper of non-existent integrity like the Guardian to turn that into an anti-Israel slander and uninformed idiots like you to believe it. Ari, I have bridge in Brooklyn for sale, cheap. Interested?
77. #59
Marty ,   USA   (05.26.10)
Anyone can cut and paste from the Guardian article. That doesn't make it true. All anyone has to ask themselves is: If SA was a willing buyer and Israel was, in fact, a willing seller, how come no sale of nuclear technology ever took place? All one can conclude from "Ari Brown" is that he is just another far-left loon who would prefer to lie in bed with pedophile-worshiping misogynistic throwbacks to the 7th century who are out to kill Jews and destroy Western civilization rather than with a modern democracy fighting for its life.
78. Good onya Elvis
Steve ,   Sydney   (05.26.10)
If only the world had boycotted Hitler before the second world war ... well, it might just have saved a few million lived. After all, a cultural boycott of South Africa helped to end apartheid - which was on a par with the state-sponsored genocide being carried out by Israel on the Palestinians. Culture is the high-mark of civilisation - and it right that it should be used as a sanction by the civilised world.
79. Steve , 78 . Genocide ?
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (05.26.10)
You don't know about what you talk . tell me where , when and how much , innocent palestinians were murdered by Israel . And comparing this costello to culture .....
80. to #66 the british caused many wars
ghostq   (05.26.10)
by their dual policy, as result we see even today, costello is hypocrite cause as british his country destroyed half of this plannet, y do you think communism gained power in china, have you ever heard on the boxers war, and what the british did there, the opium trad they started. they destroyed half of this plannet, the policy in the Israeli arab conflict is also a direct results of british policy, the refugee camps were built by the british, also the arrest govern houses still exist, also the part they took in the 1948, jordenian troopers that were under the british army juristiction at the time battle the Israeli troopers in the fort in latroon, go ahead cheack it, Idare you, at that time they also forbad from the Israelis to own any weapons, meaning Israelis were meat fodder, luckily the Israelis hired(payed sum) to the lord Tigert to help them, he was the British but was getting money to help. again British never like anything jewish, or Israeli. I got alot of other examples for British bad policy. even the amerikans could deal with Brits that is y you had tea party, no milk.
81. #24 its time you change your mantra
Ben ,   Australia   (05.26.10)
82. #42 pommy look into your own backyard before you even dare
Ben ,   Australia   (05.26.10)
to criticise Israel. Look at the bloody mess you brits left all over the world! Pakistan-India for one and many more. Wherever you ruled you left a mess. But isnt it your motto "rule and devide"
83. #46 Ari do you feel so safe in the UK?
Ben ,   Australia   (05.26.10)
you also change your mantra. Occupation - what occopation? Look reality into the eye and learn fact, but fast before its too late for you and all the jews in the UK
84. thank you for this letter
Ben ,   Australia   (05.26.10)
85. Well said. . . .
Dan ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (05.26.10)
. . . . . But why bother with the insignificent little pimple?
86. Applause to you, Assaf!
Marlon ,   Rosh Haayin, Israel   (05.26.10)
What a wonderful letter, someone should forward it to Mr. Costello!
87. to #83 the UK got double worry ti hi
ghostq   (05.26.10)
from extreme Muslims, and from the Irish. they better start counting sheeps and not MR. bean style :)
88. Boycott Costello!
Dbo ,   CA US   (05.26.10)
All FB users, please join the group "Boycott Elvis Costello" http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=108769255834717
89.  He IS an anti-semite, like most brits.
MairiT ,   Glasgow   (05.26.10)
Get this into your stupid head >MOST BRITS ARE NOT ANTI-SEMITE. And as to visiting the UK , as one of those old British women, do us all a favour , don't bother and learn to spell while you are at it.... HOOLIGAN. You are just as bad as Costello and it is you who is the ARROGANT hooligan. It appears that you have a very large chip on shoulder so much so that you cannot see beyond your paltry scribling
90. Anybody who pays money to hear Costello is tone deaf,
MairiT ,   Glasgow   (05.26.10)
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