Elvis Costello Cancels Israel Gigs

I am American, born and raised here, and I am a Muslim. I was raised with my religion and I think it's unfortunate at how obvious it is through things such as comments on this worthless piece of news at how easy our country's people are influenced by hatred, the media, and what THEY think is right. WAKE UP, people!!!!! Don't listen to your parents or what the news says. Dig deep and find that thing called a conscience buried within your hatred. I just came from Israel this year and must say I had an amazing time. The Palestinians and Israelis treated me quite well (although obviously not when I entered Israel and they saw my arab name on my passport), but I digress. I and any REAL muslim completely finds any act of terrorism to be a ticket straight to hell. These people are as indicative of muslims as the KKK are of Christianity. The time of "it's yours vs it's mine" is long gone. My conversations with my many jewish friends have led me to believe that indeed it is simply ignorance that has fueled this battle for so long. So, I implore you to recheck your "history" of religion rather than the "history" of land. We will all meet the same god one day (in case you are confused allah is the arabic word for god - the SAME god. it's like hola is hello in spanish) and in Islam we are told that it is our good deeds that grant us eternity in paradise. I cannot believe that all of you have so little respect for yourselves and whatever faith you follow to post such abhorrent comments. P.S. Check your Palestinian facts, too. For all of you who claim to be so familiar with the holy land, you would know that many Palestinians are Christians. This is not about religion, but rather about what is right. WHat the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians is what the Germans and the world did to the Jews during the Holocaust. I suppose they do say experience is the best teacher. Go talk to Dr. Norman Finkelstein to get a reality check.

Scott, That is classic blame the victim At least you admit that the critism of Israeli policies is world wide.

The Israeli-Arab conflict is the defining moral issue of our time. It astounds me not only how many bigots there are in the world, but how many fools there are as well. The crimes that Israel is accused of worldwide on a daily basis -- apartheid, genocide, land-grabbing are not the practices or desires of Israel, only Her enemies. The Arab-Israeli conflict is impervious to Israeli concessions. So those who boycott Israel and think they are speaking from a higher moral ground are blaming the victims and siding with the criminals. Boycotting Israel and calling for her destruction are one and the same.

Elvis's Israeli ticket sales weren't quite what he expected?

Why did Elvis Costello cancel his concerts in Israel? The answer is simple...crappy ticket sales but he couldn't admit that soooooooooo....he makes shit up so he can get in the news.

I applaud people who have conviction and take a stand for what they believe it. I may not agree but he is being true to himself.

I think it is Elvis's constitutional and conscientious right to boycott israel, and it is MY constitutional and conscientious right to boycott him AND his lovely wife, DIANA KRALL (whose music I love)!

People learn to hate jews for their ACTIONS, not for what they believe religiously. One needs only to pick up a newspaper these days and find a jew who is not only screwing others, but even his own kind ie. MADOFF.

Wow the hate that is fuming across these comments is awful. There is no sign of wanting peace at all, only anger and more anger and more anger. These must be some really disturbed people and their inner world must be truly disturbed for them to all write such things. More animla like than human beings with compassion.
Stop blaming eachother, and start making peace or we shall all end up as a cloud of smoke!
Nothing good can come of pointing the finger in the other direction.
Start listening and if you can open your hearts.
It doesnt matter if your Jew or Muslim, Christian or Budhist.
For the children it matters that you open yourself up to the idea of peace, and let go of hanging on to the past and who did the worst things to whom.
That is the behaviour of children in a playground, slinging things at eachother.
There is nothing wise, or adult or compassionate in these dsturbing slinging matches.
Grow up all of you and start making the world a better palce to live in. One by one each one of us has a part in this. YOur anger only spreads outwards if thats what you carry in your heart, like a pebble thrown into the ocean it ripples outwards. On the other hand if you deal wth your anger and replace it with love that is what you can send out to the world.

Elvis Costello is expressing his opinion, its what we do in a democratic society.