Roger Waters of Pink Floyd was in the Middle East yesterday, and gave a text-book useful idiot performance. Described as “weary looking”, the old rocker made a spectacular fool of himself in front of a young audience at a Q&A session in Jerusalem.
Waters said that visiting Jenin earlier in the day “felt foreign in a good way,” a breathtaking insight on par with Welsh footballer Ian Rush’s remark that his time in Italy “was like living in a foreign country” or Judith Chalmers’ ubiquitous description of any metropolis she visits as “a city of contrasts”.
When discussion turned to the security fence – on which Waters spraypainted the words ‘No More Control’ during a previous visit – he said it was an “obscenity”. Not half as obscene as the suicide bombings it has spectacularly reduced, mate. Ever seen a school-bus and its inhabitants blown to pieces? That’s obscene.
The checkpoints have also helped prevent further atrocities, but according to Waters “all this checkpoint bullshit is a method of your government to control, not only the Palestinians but you as well”. Yeah, right: pass the wacky-baccy man!
Like most critics of Israel, Waters folded embarrassingly when confronted with basic facts about successive Palestinian leaderships’ rejection of generous offers from Israel. “I’m not aware of this,” he said. Quite.
(Thanks to Ashley Perry of MESI.)
once again, nice one, Chas. These idiots never get less ridiculous.
Thanks. Another one for Britain’s Got Bigots, methinks. Roger…..we’ve made our decision….it’s been a tough one because the standard is so high and somebody has to go home, butthat’s the nature of the competition. However, Roger….you’ll be pleased to know….you’re through to the next round.
Roger once wrote:
We don’t need no education
we don’t need no thought control
No sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Maybe he should be talking with Hamas leaders about what he wrote.. they sound so true about Hamas leaders or teachers….
what an idiot. he must have been in a coma or something during the intifada.
As if it’s not bad enough having to listen to the Hamastines’ latest soundtrack (ie, endless remixes of ‘Bang Bang’, released on Katushya Records), the Israelis now have to put up with this fatuous has-been posturing all over their backyard. Why can’t Waters do the usual faded-rocker thing of schtupping floozies/cheese-making/tawdry decline instead of spouting anti-Israel flatus? I don’t even like his bass-holding, either.
People like him just dont unpack history correctly. I mean when they read, eg that Jews were (forced) tax collectors, for over 1ooo years in the Holy Roman Empire of Austro-Czech, for example it means that Jews are evil, not as it was that the Church slyly made them tax collecters, blamed the taxes on them, and did not even allow them to petition for children to have schools. While planting ideas in the innocent poor Christian mind about how rich the Jews are, and words like Gentile over and over. And its hard now for the Jews to refer to this part of their history as persecution. So Kafka wrote novels about being a cockroach an bureaucracy instead.
He’s true and i like his opinions.
how conveniant. yesterday, Roger Waters was a star, an icon to most people on this earth, but today just because he writes ( very intelligently may i add) a quote from one of the most cult and appreciated song ever ” we don’t need no tought control” ( and not “we don’t need control” as the author claimed) he’s now an idiotic british biggot ? you don’t even know it “chaz” but the more you spread this kind of articles , the more you’re hurting your community. today the whole world is against israel , not just because of palestine, but also because of people like you who are genetically unable of self-criticism…It’s like a pathology with you, you just won’t get it , period. until it falls on you, then you feel scared and paranoid, pointing the finger at the world calling everyone an antisemitic. like the whole world suddenly started “turning” for no reason . you think it’s clever to insult ? well thanks to this article, countlless more people are m likely to hate jews. thinking that everyone is trying to kill you shows how you haven’t really evolved as a community. you spend your time being arrogant about how jews align successes after successes. sorry but if the whole world was made of small communities like yours helping each other no matter what , and at any cost ( i know you don’t see the perversity in that) ,over anyone’s body, treating the rest of the world as potential ennemies , you’d be surprised how many people on this word would be successful.so you can stop right there with the “hey’re jealous of us” argument. so do i hate jews ? maybe a little bit, but not because of who they are ( human beings lie everyone) but because of what they do ( to themselves and to the world ) . so here’s the message: enough with the supremacy, “we’re always right, and you’re all atisemites ” attitude.
here’s some quotes from a text called declaration od human rights and citizen :
Article 1:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
—> You hear? ALL people , not just israelis, jews in general, and the people licking their ass , but what the hell, they’re all chosen people so this nonsense means nothing to them, except for those who share their faith.
Article 2:
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
—> some israelis think it clever to post nice pictures of palestine on the net, obviously a propaganda to show how palestinians live happy and prosperous. Yeah right. don’t you people have a soul ? I don’t care even living in a country made of gold, if at my border i’m gonna see golden prison bars !!!! this argument is typical of an opressor trying to defend himself. so what, they have houses, and swimming pools, big deal. if you think only those material things are enough to make a human being happy, than maybe i understand now what’s OFF about israel . but coming from descendants of “no-landers” who spent eternity being rejected from EVERYONE IN THE FREAKIN WORLD , i would have expected a different attitude, or wait ! maybe it is logic after all ( the way you act): if i had no land for so long ,I think i would forget as well the deep need of the people to have a country of their own, full of memories.
Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions WITHOUT INTERFERENCE and to seek, receive and IMPART information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
—>seems to me like israel ( a very young country), not used to free unbiased speeches (at all) has not yet GRASPED the true meaning of these sacred words ( then again i’m not a “chosen” person, i’m a “rejected” person from the 6 000 000 other “rejected” people of planet earth)
for those of you here who obviously have forgotten those laws, here’s the link of the all thing, read it well, this is how the MAJORITY of the world is supposed to think !
mazel tov!
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a19