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Burqa Rage!
There is a disurbing trend taking place. Israel bashers of all stripes have come out of the closet. This week, the Toronto Police have classified nazis as victims, Nazis now victim group in Canada and they added another victim group, Hate law goes to 'most absurd level': Jewish group. It is time for the entire Jewish Community to wake up and to work only with people and groups that are not involved in any level with the boycott Israel movement. Therefore, the JDL of Canada is proud to invite Bat Ye'or to Toronto on June 3 at Shaarie Tefillah Congregation. Bat Ye'or will speak the truth about demographic trends taking place.
With Love of Israel,
Meir Weinstein National Director Jewish Defence League of Canada
CANCELLED- ELVIS IS NOT IN THE HOUSE
Day Date Place With
http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Concert_Schedule
http://www.elviscostello.com/news/it-is-after-cosiderable-contemplation/44
It Is After Considerable Contemplation....
It is after considerable contemplation that I have lately arrived at the decision that I must withdraw from the two performances scheduled in Israel on the 30th of June and the 1st of July.
One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether intending to elate or lament.
Then there are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than anything that might be sung and it may be assumed that one has no mind for the suffering of the innocent.
I must believe that the audience for the coming concerts would have contained many people who question the policies of their government on settlement and deplore conditions that visit intimidation, humiliation or much worse on Palestinian civilians in the name of national security.
I am also keenly aware of the sensitivity of these themes in the wake of so many despicable acts of violence perpetrated in the name of liberation.
Some will regard all of this an unknowable without personal experience but if these subjects are actually too grave and complex to be addressed in a concert, then it is also quite impossible to simply look the other way.
I offer my sincere apologies for any disappointment to the advance ticket holders as well as to the organizers.
My thanks also go to the members of the Israeli media with whom I had most rewarding and illuminating conversations. They may regard these exchanges as a waste of their time but they were of great value and help to me in gaining an appreciation of the cultural scene.
I hope it is possible to understand that I am not taking this decision lightly or so I may stand beneath any banner, nor is it one in which I imagine myself to possess any unique or eternal truth.
It is a matter of instinct and conscience.
It has been necessary to dial out the falsehoods of propaganda, the double game and hysterical language of politics, the vanity and self-righteousness of public communiqués from cranks in order to eventually sift through my own conflicted thoughts.
I have come to the following conclusions.
One must at least consider any rational argument that comes before the appeal of more desperate means.
Sometimes a silence in music is better than adding to the static and so an end to it.
I cannot imagine receiving another invitation to perform in Israel, which is a matter of regret but I can imagine a better time when I would not be writing this.
With the hope for peace and understanding. Elvis Costello
Thanks for that Meir.
"so many despicable acts of violence perpetrated in the name of liberation."
- if the "Palestinian" cause were really one of national liberation, it would have been solved long ago. Why can't the left get its head out of the sixties and realize that what propels the anti-Israel movement is now a revolutionary Utopian Islamism that seeks to eliminate Israel as the first step in establishing a global caliphate? In other words, why can't the left recognize the power of a dream to destroy the present world order, any serious attempt at which will require sacrificing billions of lives?
ON the other story, I wonder if that is really the first incident of "Burka rage", even if we're only counting among French infidels.
They do not wish to learn that Tru. Dunno about the Burqa hmmm good question.
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