Posted on 10/04/2015 9:28:16 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Some years ago, I was in the office of a straitlaced, middle-aged lady who was in charge of my law firm’s support staff. I noticed a photograph on her desk of herself with a long-haired guy who looked like a rock musician. It seemed incongruous, so I asked about the picture, and she told me this story.
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I was hoping this referred to Maxine Waters, but no such luck.
Very nice!
Roger Waters is a hateful human being.
Just take the Bee Gees’ song, “Jive Talkin’” and replace it with “Blog Pimpin’”!
Bon Jovi is one of Bubba Clinton’s buddies.
What is the problem with posting from a blog? Powerline has been around quite a while. Thank you.
Don’t listen to the flower people.
Whine every time some one doesn’t do everything for you.
Oh wait.
You already do.
Why not post the whole thing? Is there a law infringement or internet block? WTH?
FMCDH(BITS)
It's called "Eat Me Now". Look it up, it's really good.
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2015. While many of his rock and roll contemporaries have succumbed to dissipation and in some cases are six feet under, Bon Jovi is still performing.
He scheduled a concert in Tel Aviv, which drew the wrath of Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, who is now an obsessive anti-Israel activist and, in my opinion, an anti-Semite.
Whenever a high-profile entertainer undertakes to perform in Israel, Waters weighs in, in bullying fashion.
Hence this story:
Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters disapproves of rock band Bon Jovi’s following through with plans to play a concert in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The 72-year-old British musician published a scathing open letter to the group — bandleader Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan and Tico Torres — on Salon.com Friday, claiming they “stand shoulder to shoulder” with those who have committed violent acts toward Palestinians.
“You stand shoulder to shoulder with the settler who burned the baby…with the bulldozer driver who crushed Rachel Corrie…with the soldier who shot the soccer player’s feet to bits,” he wrote, linking each act with a corresponding report.
No mention of the countless terrorist attacks by Arabs against Israeli Jews.
“Having read Jon’s comments last week in Yedioth Ahronoth, I won’t waste my time drawing parallels with Apartheid South Africa and the moral stand that so many artists took then and that thousands are taking now in the face of decades of Israeli oppression of Palestinians,” [Waters] wrote.
“So the die is cast,” he added before listing several acts committed between Israelis and Palestinians. “You are making your stand.”
Well, I hope so. Bon Jovi was unimpressed by Waters’ anti-Israel rant:
Bon Jovi is expected to perform in Israel Saturday; the band’s lead singer recently proclaimed his admiration for Tel Aviv ahead of the concert, saying he isn’t interested in Rogers’ boycott campaign.
“Yes, I heard about that but it doesn’t interest me,” he told Yedioth Ahronoth. “I told my managers to give one simple answer: That I’m coming to Israel and I’m excited to come.”
“It doesn’t interest me.” I like that.
The singer explained he’s most excited to visit the metropolitan city for its “vibrant and dynamic” culture and “great restaurants.” He and the band will reportedly spend more time than just the day of their concert in Tel Aviv.
“There are a few places in the world that I haven’t been, Israel is one of them,” he said. “So I’m thrilled to be coming. We want to stay for a few days and see as much as possible.”
I have no idea whether Bon Jovi is a Christian, but he evidently shares the excitement that Christians, Jews and others feel at the prospect of visiting the Holy Land. Good for him. He evidently will not be deterred by a left-wing, has-been bully. Somehow, I am not surprised.
I had meant to end this post there, but saw this account of the concert in Tel Aviv, which concluded just hours ago:
Jon Bon Jovi kicked off his band’s first-ever performance in Israel Saturday evening by telling 50,000 cheering Israelis “I’ve waited a long time for this!”
A few songs into the show, he underlined his empathy with Israel by introducing a new song called “We Don’t Run,” released earlier this summer, with the comment: “This should be the fight song for Tel Aviv.”
And later in the performance, the New Jersey-born rocker name-checked his keyboard player, the Jewish musician David Bryan (Rashbaum), by saying that “your father would be proud of you” for being in Israel pounding the piano.
Probably unbeknown to the band, the concert began minutes after a terrorist attack in Jerusalem 60 kilometers (some 40 miles) away, when a Palestinian man stabbed two Israelis to death in the Old City, and injured two others.
Roger Waters had no comment.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/10/bon-jovi-to-waters-drop-dead.php
I’m currently reading a bio of Winston Churchill. Churchill supported the creation of Israel. He was opposed by many people in the Brit gov. including many high level military people/officers who were anti-Semitic. The question is: why were so many Brits in high positions anti-Semitic? And why are so many Brit celebrities anti-Semitic?
Brit anti-Semitism may be overstated, as most Christian ruling classes have held similar views.
Also, there’s the historical ‘British Israelism’, which is a kind of nationalist offshoot of ‘the Church is Israel’. If Brits are the true Israel, then Jews must be Satanic pretenders.
The British experience during the Palestinian Mandate didn't help matters.
It’s Powerline, it is a lot more than just a random blog pimping for attention. You would know this if you’d been paying attention over the last decade or so.
Also, there is a lot of formatting, embedded links, and videos.
I understand the pushback against blog pimps, but you guys often take it too far.
The white papers were not overstated.
You have to be pretty damned ignorant of the history of Israel to make magic pixie defenses of Britain.
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