Posted on 07/29/2004 2:12:17 PM PDT by hope
Tear down the wall!
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Thursday, July 29, 2004
TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND Posted: July 29, 2004 5:00 p.m. Eastern
By Joe Kovacs
Tear down the wall!
That was the lyrical message in 1979 from British rock band Pink Floyd, and it's now the message of the group's co-founder Roger Waters, who is looking to demolish the concrete barrier in Israel.
Waters, who has since left the band, is launching "the Writings on the Wall" campaign with his famous line "we don't need no thought control" scribbled under his signature on an eight-foot replica of the fence.
"The poverty inflicted by the wall has been devastating for Palestinians," said Waters. "It has kept children from their schools, the sick from proper medical care and continues to destroy the Palestinian economy."
Waters is the first of a handful of British celebrities to sign up for the campaign, which is sponsored by the London-based anti-poverty group War on Want.
For those outside Great Britain, a virtual wall will soon be active online where the public can "paint" their own messages.
As WorldNetDaily reported last month, the wall is being credited for a huge drop in terrorism in Israel.
At this time last year, there were 20 suicide bombings killing 141, while 2002 saw 25 such attacks in which 147 Israelis were killed. So far this year, there have been only two bombings in Israel proper, killing 19.
Israel says its tactics clearly are working and that life in the Jewish state may gradually be restored to the way it was before the violence started in 2000. The security fence completed in Gaza and the one being constructed in the West Bank are credited with keeping suicide bombers out, and raids in Palestinian areas and targeted killings of top terrorist commanders seem to be putting Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades on the run and unable to orchestrate attacks.
With 23 million copies sold, the original "Wall" concept album from 1979 is the third best-selling album of all time, surpassed only by the Eagles' "Greatest Hits 1971-75," and Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
In July 1990, to commemorate the demolition of the Berlin Wall, Waters staged a massive live performance of "The Wall" in Berlin, featuring artists such as Cyndi Lauper, The Scorpions, Thomas Dolby, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, and Bryan Adams.
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F him and the horse he road in on.
Part de Waters!
No, I mean, Depart, Waters!
Waters is a brilliant musician, but a moron when it comes to policy.
Roger, if you're reading this, finish another album and tour again. That I long to see.
But please don't show the world your ignorance regarding the Middle East !!
P.S. I think Israel should "tear down the wall", but after they have bombed the Palestiaian territory back into the middle ages !!
Pink Floyd ping. Don't remember who else in the Hole is a Floyd fan, so please ping anyone I'm missing.
Seriously, the song "Brain Damage" comes to mind.
I still enjoy listening to the bootleg recording of Waters losing it during the last show on the 1977 Animals tour...where he spit on a fan and acted like a complete jerk. Inspired the album The Wall, I understand. Gilmour was so fed up, he walked off stage and Floyd ended up doing a blue improv. for an encore.
His solo albums stink. Working with Gilmour reigned in his self obsessions.
Maybe this will give him material to write more songs, which will be released on an album, which can be advertised as his response to this situation...which might result in him selling more than the five copies his last albums sold.
So this guy once wrote a song about a wall, and that makes him a credible policy expert on the security wall in Israel?
That oughta be fun.
Poor Roger. Does this megalomaniac still think anyone listens to him?
He may need no thought control, but he sure does need an education!
I agree with you.
His solo albums don't reach the level of his work with Pink Floyd, but I don't like the Pink Floyd albums without Waters as well either.
But Waters still puts on a great show. Saw him in Atlanta on his last tour. Fantastic !!
And the worms ate into his brain.
I'd bet any amount of money that Roger Waters has a security fence around every house he owns.
Other Floyd members used to give him hell for not being able to read music and for so long to memorize basslines. Listen to his playing...great he ain't.
Other Floyd members used to give him hell for not being able to read music and for taking so long in memorizing bass lines. Listen to his playing...great he ain't.
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