ROGER WATERS HITS A WALL, CALLED ANTI-SEMITISM

By Simon Fischler

Who, you might ask, is Roger Waters?

Roger Waters is the British co-founder and main songwriter of the original Pink Floyd Band.

Roger Waters is also the disgruntled Englishman who left his homeland when they passed the Hunting Act of 2004 (which was actually anti-hunting legislation to do away with the controversial practice of fox-hunting).

Mind you, Waters says it didn’t matter whether he approved of fox-hunting, but he would “defend to the hilt their right to take part in it.”

Interesting, that the great-grandson of a coal miner and son of a Labor Party mucky-muck should get all worked up about the rights of a few aristocrats to tally-ho around the countryside on horses, with hordes of dogs ... just to kill a little fox.

For Ol'Rog it must have signaled the end of democracy in Ye Olde England.

Roger Waters is also the British bassist/songwriter/lyricist/composer who has publicly backed the anti-Semitic group, BDS (which stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).

Since Waters is largely famous these days for “The Wall,” which began as an enormous concert in Berlin right after the infamous Berlin Wall fell, it’s only to be expected that a big reason Waters is allying with BDS is because of a wall -- in this case Israel’s WALL OF LIFE which divides Israel from the Israeli provinces of Judea and Samaria.

Waters adds that his decision actually goes all the way back to 2006, when he visited the Israeli Wall of Life.

“Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw that day. The Wall is an appalling edifice to behold. It is policed by young Israeli soldiers who treated me, a casual observer from another world, with disdainful aggression. If it could be like that for me ... imagine what it must be like for the Palestinians.”

All of this leaves me with a few questions for the allegedly noble-minded Mr. Waters.

Do you really expect anyone to believe you were just a casual observer? A casual Observer does not go to see the Wall of Life. How dumb do think the public is?

Do you really expect Israeli soldiers (many of them the children of working class and poor Israelis who love their country dearly), whose lives are on the line on a daily basis, to roll out a red carpet for you?

You really though these boys and girls who are protecting the citizens of their country with their lives (something your tender skin has never had to endure) to embrace an aristocratic, colonialist, jaded, millionaire, European, Englishmen who is their to cause them problems? All just so you can fill your 60's era kicks and pretend your fighting for freedom when you're really fighting for the worst Arab/colonialist/anti-Semites there are?

If this is the case then your English, colonial arrogance far exceeds your stupidity!

Roger, are you aware that the Israel did not start construction on the Wall of Life until 2004 and it was only in response to the War (War, Roger) declared by Yasser Arafat in September 2000?

Are you aware that thousands of Israeli civilians were blown into tiny pieces by the mindless massacres of suicide bombers, that is, until the wall was finished?

Are you aware that not one Israeli life has been lost to suicide bombing since that “appalling” wall went up?

How could you possibly, in any way shape or form, compare the Berlin Wall, built to keep millions from escaping to freedom, to the Israeli Wall of Life, built to keep Arab/Muslim suicide bombers from getting in to slaughter civilians?

Tell you what, Roger, why don’t you go up in the English countryside and protest Hadrian’s Wall instead? I know, Hadrian’s Wall is part of your Wall series ... but did you ever actively protest it? After all, the Roman Emperor Hadrian began the wall in AD 122 mostly to keep all of you Celts, Picts and Jutes out!

Or even better why don't you hand Northern Ireland back to the Irish?

As for “racism” practiced by Israel, Roger, are you aware that Israeli Arabs have more rights, privileges and benefits than ANY OTHER ARAB NATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST? There is no segregation in Israel. In fact, one of the BDS’ prime leaders, Omar Barghoutti attended and received his degree from Tel Aviv University and still speaks out vociferously for the destruction of the Jewish State.

So where’s the racism?

I’ll tell you where it is, Roger; it’s in the hands of the Oil Baron Arabs, where several of their highest leaders have stated unequivocally and absolutely that “when the Palestinian State is real, there will not be a single Jew living there.”

And how about “colonialism?” Maybe I should remind you, Roger, that what is called the West Bank today was known as Judea and Samaria -- part of the ancient kingdom of Israel.

Roger, I guess your drug induced memory problems have also made you forget that Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert both offered the Arab leadership that is occupying Judea and Samaria 97% of that land, all of the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem as a Palestinian State.

Roger, who rejected that offer? The Arabs rejected the state that they supposedly wanted so much, not the Israelis?

Why did they do this Roger? Because it was not enough, that Arab colonialist mentality, similar to your British colonialist mentality still called for the destruction of Israel.

Maybe you have forgotten this too, Israel also withdrew from the Sinai (which she had also taken in 1967) and gave it to Egypt for peace. Then in 2005 Ariel Sharon yanked all the Jewish settlers out of Gaza. Is this colonialism?

How did the Arabs of Gaza respond to the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza by the way?Rockets Roger, tens of thousands of rockets! That's a crime against humanity, but that does not bother you because it is Jews who are suffering!

Roger Waters you made the asinine statement that you are not an anti-Semite, of course you are. Just by making that statement alone you are acknowledging that your actions speak differently, and BOY THEY DO!

Your rapid focus on Israel, the nation that has made endless comprises for peace, while totally ignoring the hostile Arab leadership that still denies the Jewish Nations right to self-determination and still calls for the destruction of Israel is example enough of your flagrant bias and ant-Semitism.

But we can add on to that.

You seem to have no problem with the fact that it is illegal under the laws of the Palestinian Authority to sell land to a Jew. What is the punishment for this crime? The death penalty.

You ignore the fact that it is illegal for Jews to own land in Jordan. Not to mention Jordan is 75% percent "Palestinian" and most of these Arabs have no rights and are lorded over by an English installed Hashemite King.

You also seem to think it it is more important to focus your hatred on the Jewish State, while a minority, Alawite, Apartheid regime in Syria has mass murdered more than one hundred thousand of its own citizens, and is continuing with the killings!

But what can you expect from a colonialist, Brit who wants to let the peerage continue to slaughter foxes?

DEAR ALICIA KEYS

Dear Alicia Keys,

Sadly I have heard the news that you have received the ominous and threatening letters to boycott Israel from BDS supporters Alice Walker and Roger Waters.

By now they have probably bombarded you with plenty of BDS rhetoric about how awful Israel is. Now you're thinking maybe it might be better to cancel your Tel Aviv concert.

Please do not do this, it will be a tragically immoral action to take.

By doing this you will be doing the exact opposite of fighting for peace.

Israel is no Apartheid State.

Israel is the only true Democracy in the Middle-East; one in which Israeli Arabs enjoy greater freedoms than any other Muslims in the Arab world or the world in general.

There are thirteen Israeli Arab Knesset members; something that would be impossible in an apartheid state.

In Israel there is no division: Arabs can live and work where they wish. There is no segregation.

Organizations like BDS and people like Alice Walker do not want you to know about our Israeli Druze population. The Druze of Israel -- some of her strongest supporters -- were persecuted throughout the Arab Muslim world. They are fiercely patriotic because Israel is the first country to truly offer them equality.

Ms. Keys, Alice Walker says that what my government is doing to the Palestinians is disgusting. What exactly is my government doing to the Palestinians? Offering up to much peace while the Palestinian government endlessly calls for my countries destruction?

Let us talk a little bit about what Israel has done for peace.

Israel accepted the “Two State Solution” when she accepted the UN’s partition plan in 1947. The Arabs rejected it!

The Arabs then started a war they ended up losing. Just to let you know, The Kingdom of Jordan and Egypt both occupied the "Palestinian" Territories of the Gaza Strip (Egypt) and the West Bank (Jordan) until they lost them in another war with Israel that they also started, in 1967.

At Camp David, President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Yasser Arafat 97 percent of the West Bank, all of Gaza, East Jerusalem -- including the Muslim and Christian Quarters of the Old City -- and the ability for the state of Palestine to accommodate Palestinian refugees. All of this would have comprised the Independent State of Palestine.


It was Arafat who said NO to Peace, and NO to Palestinian Statehood. He then continued (as has been admitted recently by HAMAS strongman Mahmoud Zahar) a war with Israel, which he called “The Second Intifada.”

You may have heard of the hideous suicide bombings which occurred in Israel during Arafat’s war: Sabarro restaurant and a night club in Tel Aviv; a huge seder celebration in Netanya.

These were but a few, and hundreds of Israelis were killed in these bombings, until Israel constructed the much-maligned wall. Since the construction of that wall, there has not been another Israeli death from suicide bombing.

In 2005 Israel completely pulled her army and citizens out of the Gaza Strip, in the hope of creating an atmosphere encouraging peace. Ms. Keys, these people had been living in their homes for forty years or more.

Israel did this with no deal, no guarantees; just the hope of creating an opportunity for Peace. That has been met with over TEN THOUSAND ROCKETS shot into Israel by the Palestinian Population in Gaza.

Just so you know Ms. Keys these rockets are pointed at CHILDREN AND OTHER CIVILIANS.

Israel has an open Gay community, and gays have been serving in the IDF openly for years.

If you are a gay Palestinian you will be doing everything possible to get into Israel. We have a Gay Parade in Tel Aviv and in JERUSALEM. Could you imagine a gay parade in Mecca or Medina? Remember, Ms. Keys, Jerusalem is the Holiest City to the Jewish Nation.

The people fighting Israel and the people behind the BDS and ISM movements are virulently anti-Semitic and racist.

They propose imposing on an EIGHTY PERCENT Jewish Nation State, Arab Muslim sovereignty. That is true Apartheid. They say Israel must recognize Palestinian Arabs’ right to statehood, then they say that Israel does not have the right to exist as the Jewish Nation State.

It is members of the Palestinian Leadership, including President Mahmoud Abbas and top negotiator Saeb Erekat who have stated on several occasions that not ONE JEW WILL BE ALLOWED TO LIVE IN THE PALESTINIAN STATE. Again, that reeks of segregation, apartheid and racism.

BDS and ISM are much like the Nazi Brownshirts of the early 1930s. They are effective at spreading fear against supporters of Israel.

They threaten you as the Brownshirts did in Germany, their aggressiveness makes them even more effective at scaring people like you.

They know you cannot stop and read all the history behind this conflict (which would, of course, crush their argument). It has taken me fifteen years of living in Israel and studying this conflict to have a real understanding. No five minute pamphlet could ever explain what's going on here!

How dare Alice Walker make the statement that you need to inform yourself more on the situation here in Israel! What does she know about your knowledge of Israel!

In fact maybe what you should do Ms. Keys is ask Alice Walker about Haj Amin al-Husseini. Then ask Alice Walker how she can be supporting a cause started by Nazis?

I will tell you what Alice Walker does know.

Ms. Keys if you come here you will find an amazing, open, democratic and pluralistic society in direct contradiction to her venomous lies. You will then become like all the other great artists who keep coming back to Israel, a sword in the heart of the anti-Semitic lies Walker is hoping to spread!

Alice Walker is a sad joke, a woman who abandoned her own child, feels she can say that you will be damaging your soul by performing in Israel.

The Palestinian leadership and organizations like BDS and ISM are the ones responsible for the fact there still is no state called Palestine. It is their souls that are damned, just like their Nazi predecessors!

We Israelis cannot force a state on them. For them, destroying the Jewish Nation in its homeland has always been more important. They are the true supporters of apartheid

Incredibly, in a recent poll the MAJORITY of Palestinian Arabs of East Jerusalem would choose Israeli citizenship over Palestinian citizenship when the two state deal is finished!

How could that be, if Israel is such a racist, apartheid state? Have a look: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/would-east-jerusalem-arabs-rather-be-citizens-of-israel-or-palestine-1.336758.

I will not threaten you, nor will I suggest that others do so. I just hope you make the right decision and come to Israel.

Sincerely,


Simon Fischler