Roger Waters is a happy BDSHole, following the UK passing a motion to recognize Palestine as a state (come to think of it, “passing a motion” sounds about right in this case).
Yesterday, the House of Commons in the Mother of Parliaments passed a motion by 274 ayes to 12 nays in favor of a motion declaring “That this house believes that the Government should recognize the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel as a contribution to securing a two state solution.” I am proud to be British today.
Speaking of today, today Huffington post printed an Op Ed I have written in support of greater efforts by our governments to protect children in war torn countries: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-waters/how-western-governments-h_b_5983568.html
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The photo Waters used to accompany his Facebook note may look familiar to you, because it is a favorite of Israel haters. The image of a young palestinian boy, so frightened by the nasty IDF soldiers accosting him, that he has urinated his pants.
Once again, a photo taken out of context can tell a huge lie.
Here is a photo of the boy taken right before the one above.
I bet the ignorant Waters is not even aware of this.
Meanwhile, Water’s Huffington Post piece is more like a Huff-And-I’ll-Puff post. But it does give a further idea as to how deranged he is when it comes to Israel.
After speaking about world atrocities against children – like in Syria where the number of dead children is estimated at almost 10,000 – Waters then informs he will concentrate his remarks on palestinians (and includes a snide remark about Israel advocates), despite the fact the numbers killed is way less and their deaths not deliberate.
My only daughter, India, just gave birth to my first granddaughter, a healthy, beautiful nine-pound baby. I am overjoyed. My tears of joy run free.
Yet, my joy is fettered by sorrow. The new arrival’s birth has been cause for reflection about the world she inherits. This child, so dear to me, will not lack for opportunities, her future is wide open. I cannot, however, help but see in her the reflection of other less fortunate children. I am haunted by faces of dead innocent children in Syria gassed, either by their own government, or by rebel groups, by the little girls abducted in Nigeria, by the four small boys marked for death while playing soccer on a beach in Gaza, by the children killed and maimed in UNRWA schools, and by the faces of surviving children in all these places that should be radiant and curious and are instead fearful and traumatized.
I detest these ignominious attacks on children worldwide and the generally abject nature of our leaders’ responses to them. The sway held over much of the world by militarism and religious fundamentalism, both of which I abhor, is setting back collective efforts to create a better future for our children. At the risk of being accused by apologists for the Israeli government of singling out, I shall, nevertheless, concentrate my remarks here on the illegal occupation and colonial subjugation of the indigenous Palestinian people of the lands between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan.
The rest of it is a collection of his usual lies and half truths. At one point, he speaks about non-violent resistance being one’s moral duty.
The Obama administration rejects violent Palestinian resistance as a means to securing Palestinian liberation. And most people, including me, condemn the random launching of rockets and other missiles that might hit civilian targets. I say might, because they rarely do. This past July and August I believe there were five Israeli civilian casualties. Their friends and families have my heartfelt sympathy; every fallen loved one is a tragedy.
Having said that, it is morally bankrupt to reject nonviolent resistance.
Nonviolent resistance to Israel’s occupation and brutalizing of the imprisoned indigenous people of Palestine is a moral duty for us all.
It is for reasons of conscience, and as an admirer of Gandhi, Dr. King, Nelson Mandela, and countless other dead comrades, that I am an enthusiastic supporter of the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. If you wish to join the hundreds of thousands already riding the BDS freedom bus, this link will give you further information. The Israeli government notices when musicians, by way of protest, refuse to play in Israel; when Stephen Hawking supports academic boycott by withdrawing from Israel’s presidential conference; and also when any of us asks our local supermarket or corner shop if they are selling anything that supports the illegal settlements in the occupied territories.
As Gandhi had it, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Moving back to the photo of the kid Water’s used for his Facebook page. Do you think he would honestly condemn the kid for employing what he would call violent resistance?
No, of course not. Because Roger Waters is as morally bankrupt as he is dishonest.
