Roger Waters Israel Boycott: Ex-Pink Floyd Member Asking Musicians to Not Perform There

Mr. Waters might want to consider that, since Israel was attacked in 1967 from the West Bank and subsequently came to control it, the average life expectancy for the Palestinians living there went from 48 years to 72 (compared with an average of 68 years for all the countries of the Middle East and North Africa), and Israeli medical programs reduced the Palestinian infant-mortality rate from 60 per 1,000 live births in 1967 to 15 per 1,000 in 2000 (in Iraq the rate was 64, in Egypt 40, in Jordan 23, in Syria 22)

In addition, since 1967, Israeli inoculation programs in the territories have eradicated childhood diseases like polio, whooping cough, tetanus, and measles.

On the other hand, Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, has declared that “when an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital is established, we won’t allow the presence of one Israeli in it.”

Roger Waters has the South Africa analogy backwards. In Palestine and throughout the Arab world, the Jews were an oppressed minority for well over a thousand years. A large part of Israel's population is made up of Jews who came there to flee persecution by Arabs. Israel is the one place in the Middle East where the Jews can exercise their right to self-determination. The Arabs do not recognize this right and never have. In the 1930s, the slogan of Palestinian Arabs who carried out pogroms against Palestinian Jews was "The Jews are our dogs."

For the Arabs, the Jews are uppity niggers. The Palestinian Authority today still refuses to recognize the existence of a Jewish state and openly proclaims its intention to chase every last Jew from any territory that comes under its control. In Israel, Arabs enjoy full citizenship rights, including serving in the Parliament and the Supreme Court. Roger Waters cannot be so ignorant that he does not know this. His assertion that Israel is an apartheid state is a shameless lie. Nowhere in the Arab or Muslim world today do Jews enjoy the rights that Arabs enjoy in Israel.

Please tell Roger Waters that you will not buy his music or attend his concerts until he stops supporting Arab apartheid. You may leave a message for him in care of his talent agent:

Andrew Zweck
Sensible Events
andrew@sensibleevents.com
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Thank you!

Thank you Roger!!
America is slowly waking up to how vile Israel is.
$3 billion a year to make us a target for
zealot muslims.
Israel has long been a huge waste of money
and a stupid and dangerous so called "allay"..
they stab us in the back time and time again.

Israel SUCKS.

He has written great songs, though not any recently, but as far as the social landscape of the region, he is totally ignorant. All people, no matter their what their religion or opinions are, have full legitimacy to live their lives in peace in Israel. Mr. Waters, I challenge you to name any other place in the "destroy Israel" world where the same could be said. Can a Jew go go to to any Muslim country and have any rights, let alone full freedom? Anyone living in Israel, has freedom, with not a sign of apartheid. What you try to do is side with those who are are determined to make trouble, and deserve to be punished.
You and anyone who takes your side are the one's deserving a boycott.

Mr.Waters should also look into how countries women and not just women's rights - just how women are treated in Palestine, Gaza, most of the Middle East (except for Israel) and most of the Arab world. Does he just choose the injustices he focuses on at random or is something else going on here?

Mr Waters, I thought apartheid meant that foreign nationalities living in a country cannot participate in any service provided by the country they live in, such cannot travel on public transport, not eligible for any welfare, not participate in any government roles, not be allowed to live in certain areas, I think that's what the Palestinians are urging the non Israelis to do. If you look more closely you will find Palestinians or non Israelis have access to all these things, they even have their own political parties in the Israeli government. The apartheid is being applied by yourself and the Palestinians, that is the truth here. I wish you all the best with your apartheid decision and hope you reverse your decision in due time.

Here come the Roger Waters is anti Semitic trolls.