Posted on 05/25/2010 11:35:37 AM PDT by mojito
Dear Costello:
Firstly, accept my sincere apologies for being unable to refer to you as “Elvis,” for the obvious reason that you aren’t really Elvis.
Secondly, allow me to address your decision to cancel the show planned for Israel. I attempted to understand the reasons you referred to in your cancellation notice. You addressed the “humiliation of Palestinians civilians in the name of national security,” and I wonder what you meant.
Perhaps you’re referring to the roadblocks and fence we built in order to prevent suicide bombers from exploding in our buses and coffee shops. The dramatic decline in Palestinian massacres, from an average of one a day to almost nil may indeed be humiliating for them, as you noted.
Or maybe you referred to Operation Cast Lead. If that’s the case, you are in fact condemning us for deciding to put an end to eight years of rocket attacks targeting our kindergartens. If you think this is demagoguery, please go ahead and check the timers which the “humiliated” terrorists set for the rockets. They were aiming for the hours where our children head to kindergarten and to school.
Immediately after doing so, these terrorists rushed to hide being their own women and children. And why did they do so? So you, Costello, will see our response on your television screen, and proceed to express shock and suddenly call off your show in Israel – a year and a half later.
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Costello cancelled his show? Is there no end to the suffering of the Jews?
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
Another celeb yapping about things of which he does not know.
Good on you Elvis. Stay home. Israel doesn’t need you.
Elvis Costello canceled a tour to Israel? Wow, I’ll bet he disappointed all 3 of his Israeli fans.
This is the same guy that called Ray Charles a “blind, ignorant, nigger.”
That’s gonna leave a mark.
I am sorry... who is Elvis Costello?
The poser’s real name is Declan Patrick MacManus...
Abbott’s partner.
I loved Elvis Costello’s first three albums and still do - great music that still holds up. He’s also come up with some listenable stuff since then, in bits and pieces. But his performances mostly consist of mediocre stuff he’s done recently, his voice sounds shot, and his views on Israel and the Palestinians are worthless.
ugh... i was a big Elvis Costello fan in the 80s...
Jeez, when did he do that?
Late 70s.
Well thanks, but I still don’t know who it is.
British rock stars have not been on my radar for decades.
Diana Krall's husband.
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