Friday, October 12, 2007
Nice idea. Have two concerts (including Bryan Adams, wow!), one in Tel Aviv, one in Jericho, and the only price of admission would be to sign a statement calling for leaders to get the two-state solution finalized already. Reality intruded, however, and the Jericho date has been canceled over security concerns. Seems normalization isn't what everyone has in mind: Grass-roots peace concert in Jericho called off over security concerns: organizer
JERICHO, West Bank: A West Bank peace concert for supporters of a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel has been called off because of security concerns, the organizer said late Thursday.
The concert was to have been held simultaneously in a football stadium in the West Bank town of Jericho and in a park in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Oct. 18.
The New York-based One Voice organization said the concerts were aimed at bolstering its campaign to collect one million signatures of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians demanding that their leaders sit down and finalize an agreement on a Palestinian state living at peace with Israel.
The concerts were to have been free, but concertgoers would have been asked to sign the One Voice petition.
Organizer Daniel Lubetzky said he decided Thursday to call off the Jericho event. "Extremist ideologists have threatened our participants in Jericho, and we felt it is our responsibility not to play with their lives," he said, but did not provide details about the threats...
The "extremists" who have forced the cancellation are the usual suspects...not just terrorists, but the usual boycott fools who'd rather shoot themselves in the foot than walk forward
In other music news, Israeli band The Teapacks ("Push the Button") will be in Boston on October 24.
Seems a bit arrogant of the organizers to assume that the Palestinians would identify themselves and presume to tell Fatah and Hams what to do and attend an infidel rock concert to boot.
The silly Israelis attending would be just ripe for kidnapping.
Israeli band The Teapacks
Who dreamt up that name? The band called itself "Tipex" which they took from a product to 'white out' print in documents, Tipp-Ex liquid.
This is a rather long discussion on Good Neigbours' blog about the event that was just cancelled, since its inception. It's an interesting thread, as there are actually two Palestinians contributing to it.
http://gnblog.com/?p=264#comment-49286
Who is Bryan Adams?
They should have gotten "Hippiefest", THEN they would have sold out.
http://www.bethelwoodslive.org/Events/?230
They call themselves Teapacks in English to avoid trademark infringement issues with the wuite-out people.
And they will be in NYC this Saturday - I have a ticket!