Costello cancels Israel shows-No peace, love and understanding from Elvis.

Jerusalem Post ^ | 5-18-10 | DAVID BRINN

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Yeesh. Where did they dredge him up from? One good album and then garbage, kinda like Linda Ronstadt. I guess he's trying to pull a Ronstadt and get some publicity by getting political.

[Dr. Thorne]

Israel is a small country that cannot afford to become polluted. Looks like they just avoided a lot of toxic waste.

BTW, has anyone listened to "The Juliet Letters"? Anyone? (crickets chirping)

[17th Miss Regt]

Elvis should go play the West Bank.

I'll bet he would bomb there.

[Karliner]

Maybe he should play in Gaza, let Cynthia McKinney sing a little also, and maybe Rev Wright can come to bless the Qassams.

[Rappini]

This Elvis couldn’t find his A$$ in a lighted room with both hands.

[B Knotts]

A talented guy who has always been misguided in his politics.

[RichInOC]

But Elvis…you could be in Palestine, overrun by the Chinese line, with the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne…

[dervish]

my favorite lines.

Oh well, another musician/actor/writer/artist that joins the group of those I no longer want to know about and will no longer buy .

Reminds me of this

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cba_1207163405

[dennisw]

Elvis should go play the West Bank.

I’ll bet he would bomb there. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Especially if he playing during Bomb-a-dan

[nolongerademocrat]

Wasn’t Obama a part of those protests against “Apartheid” in South Africa that eventually led to performers boycotting South Africa and the collapse of the government there? (Leaving that connection to Bill Ayers alone for a moment)

I notice since Obama has been in the national public eye, there are more and more comments trying to equate Israel with South Africa and Apartheid.

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1206

http://www.bigcampaign.org/index.php?mact=CGBlog,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=121&cntnt01returnid=72

(Funny, if it was really based on race - how would so many “Arab-Israelis” survive living inside Israel?)

This is politics - Obama wants to collapse the Israeli government - he wants Bibi replaced by “Tzipi” Livni.

Elvis Costello is an Obama supporter:

http://www.nme.com/news/elvis-costello/41953

http://www.breitbart.tv/explicit-elvis-costello-doesnt-think-much-of-oreilly-dobbs/

ISRAEL: Activists urge musicians not to perform in Israel
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/03/israel-israeli-peaceniks-pick-on-the-pixies.html
(Of course, the article doesn’t mention that the “Israeli citizens” who are calling for boycotts are probably “Palestinians” who chose to remain in Israel as Israeli citizens.)

Don’t get me wrong - Apartheid was awful. Israel is not South Africa.

[SunkenCiv]

sometimes a silence in music is better than adding to the static

In his case, all the time. Thanks SJackson.