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Pearl Jam's lead singer blasts Israel on stage
Ami Friedman
Published: 14.07.14, 01:53
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1. And my collection of Pearl Jam CDs goes down the drain.
Moshe the Genuine   (07.14.14)
2. Bravo
Steve Grumman ,   Tucson, AZ, USA   (07.14.14)
It is time that people begin speaking out in public about these horrors.
3. Vedder
Eric Apoe ,   Seattle WA USA   (07.14.14)
too bad Eddie ….you have ZERO knowledge of the situation from all you speak and have just fallen victim to the brainwash of the world about Jews and Israel…..I live in Seattle if you ever want to talk over coffee
4. Falklands...how is occupation going...
Miron ,   USA   (07.14.14)
5. A real imbecile
ik ,   USA   (07.14.14)
Jam their records in the sewer, where vedder's brains are. For sure, there are many other records out there. Buy them.
6. On Dylan's 35th anniversary
Barney ,   USA   (07.14.14)
Concert he sang masters of war. The folks he support would have no Jews including dylan. He is young ignorant and has no idea what he real story is. Why should he care or know? Free publicity is the v best kind and the only kind he can get now. Listening to him ism like asking the clerk at a gas station about political and economic policy
7. Eddie, who?
James ,   UK   (07.14.14)
Who the hell is or was Eddie Vedder? Is he a big expert in something to be cited here?
8. Nothing like the moral compass...
frauss ,   Jerusalem   (07.14.14)
of these drug addled, self-styled prophet rock stars! Where would we be without them? A good deal better off... Put a sock in it Eddie!
9. Israeli paranoia
(07.14.14)
Vedder condemned someone for getting American taxes then looking for a reason to kill, take over land that doesn't belong to them, and drop bombs on children. It sounds to me like Vedder is attacking Hamas. I say invite him to appear Israel when everything is settled down.
10. typical brain diseased from too much sex with wrong women
ralph   (07.14.14)
11. So what the f***?
Hammer   (07.14.14)
Excited "so-peaceful" idiot without basic knowledge of HIS OWN country history is bashing Jewish people from stage? This f***ing racist incitement!
12. Moh'd Abu Ghazi from HRW
Hammer   (07.14.14)
when radical muslims run HRW it's time to change a name
13. ANOTHER OPINIONATED WANKER
tTEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED OBVIOUS   (07.14.14)
14. Primitive ignorant Antisemitic fool
Laila ,   Montreal, Canada   (07.14.14)
Primitive ignorant Antisemitic fool.
15. From Wikipedia
YMBMY ,   Modiin, Israel   (07.14.14)
"Vedder was a longtime and outspoken supporter for the Free the West Memphis 3 movement, a cause that advocated the release of three young men who were convicted in 1994 of the gruesome murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas" What a guy! He just seems to have an affinity for dangerous nutcases.
16. Israel was not reborn to submit to brain dead entertainers.
Chaim ,   Israel   (07.15.14)
Israel was birthed with a great victory over 6 invading Arab armies. Israel is not only built for good times. Israel is also built to triumph over evil in all its despicable forms. Israel was not reborn, after 2,000 years, to submit to brain dead entertainers.
17. Idiots, why drool over haters, cuz u like their music?Insane
shneercity ,   usa   (07.15.14)
18. Ynet's VIP policy for Facebook users
Jake   (07.15.14)
It's pretty frustrating that Ynet has a 2-tiered system for talkbackers. Facebook users, principally anti-Israel and antisemitic trolls, get to post at will without being censored, and those without Facebook can't reply. Meanwhile on the main talkback thread, it takes hours for my posts to appear and more than half of my posts never get posted.
19. why be negative, I understand him criticizing the Palis
Chaim Yankel   (07.16.14)
the Palis get US Tax money, they're sending bombs to kill children, they want to take over somebody else's land (Jewish land)...good for him coming out pro-Israel!!!
20. #18:Correct Jake-that's the face of our "FUTURE" :-(
tom ,   tel aviv   (07.16.14)
21. Stick to the music - stop drugs they're killing your brain
Scott ,   Haifa   (07.16.14)
22. Confused
Julia ,   Israel   (07.17.14)
Any chance he is talking about US ? Taking over land that does not belong to them sounds pretty much what US foreign policy in mideast has been in last 20 years
23. Middle East
Erick Kline ,   Miami, Arizona, USA   (07.17.14)
Well ok it's Britain's fault. They won WW1 and divided the land they won the way they wanted. If you're on the losing side ...well you lose. That was 1918 and It's now 2014, 96 years. Everyone involved in the decision is dead now. Almost everyone alive period in 1918 is dead now. For good or Ill Israel is a fact now. They've been a country for 66 years. Most, if not all, of the founders of Israel are gone now too. Besides England Germany has some responsibility here too. In WW1 they divided Europe into winners and losers. In WW2 they rounded up and killed over six million Jews, some related to me and my girlfriend. Turkey entered the war on Germany's side in 1914. Because they lost the war the Middle East got divided up. So Germany started the problem originally. Turkey thought that Germany would win so they allied themselves to Germany to profit and instead lost. Britain was left trying to figure out what to do and the US washed their hands of the whole deal. Then WW2 comes along and Germany sets up the post war creation of Israel. After the war the US and Britain create Israel out of whole cloth. The Arab countries in the region vow to push Israel into the ocean. There's a major conflict in 1948 and 63 since. Yes that's right 64 wars in 66 years and 23 more between 1902-1948. That's 87 conflicts in 112 years. When you start saying this country or that country is to blame you're talking up your sleeve. NO ONE IS RIGHT. Many are to blame and some of those with the most blood on their hands are standing on the sidelines now throwing stones into the works, and I mean Germany. Everyone in the conflict has responsibility. Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, British, Germans, Turks, Kurds, Arabs and everyone else involved including Russia. No one is the innocent victim here, except the individual civilians on both sides, men, women and children. ALL the governments involved, every single one of them, share the blame. Speaking out about the carnage is fine but pointing fingers is useless, mostly wrong and in some cases harms the possible future peace process. Entertainers who weren't even alive during the 1967 war should get their facts straight or keep their mouths shut.
24. education
frida bean ,   england   (08.01.14)
wouldnt it be nice if these pop stars would read the real news sometimes and not arab propagander. israel has no reason to to take over the gaza strip only to stop terror attacks against its citizens.gazans who oppose hamas are just executed .hamas has treatned to destroy isral and not the other way around/its basic history which ofcourse being pop stars dont actually care about/
25. never heard of them. So what....
(08.05.14)
26. Pearl Jam - Isreal
Rk ,   Manchester, England   (07.15.19)
I think he is talking about the Israeli Government and not the Israeli people... Governments cause resentment not the citizens!
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