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Eric Clapton: 'Israel is running the world'
The Jerusalem Post ^ | 5/28/2024 | David Brinn

Posted on 05/29/2024 2:48:01 AM PDT by mbrfl

British rock guitar legend Eric Clapton moved one step closer to Roger Waters territory last week, telling an interviewer that “Israel is running the world, Israel is running the show.”

The 79-year-old musician, who has recently performed playing a guitar painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag, was interviewed on May 22 by David Spuria, an American Youtuber who hosts the popular Real Music Observer show.

alking about the recent campus protests in the US against Israel, Clapton criticized the Senate hearings in which university presidents were asked about antisemitism on campus.

“I was so enthused about what was going on at Columbia [University] and elsewhere. And then what I couldn’t believe, because it freaked me out, were the Senate hearings, which were like the Nuremberg trials, you know?” he said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; Philosophy; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemite; antisemitism; clapton; ericclapton; gaza; hamas; israel; stopantisemites; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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To: Clutch Martin

“I guess he’s run out of things to say about how great and wonderful the blues is... all five notes and the pentatonic scale overly repeated and permutated.”

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Gary Moore was a far better blues guy and much more versatile player Clapton. Moore was able to play outside the box.


81 posted on 05/29/2024 7:53:49 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: dfwgator
“Earlier this week, Marlon Brando met with Jewish leaders to apologize for comments he made on Larry King Live, among them that “Hollywood is run by Jews.” The Jewish leaders accepted the actor’s apology and announced that Brando is now free to work again.” ― Norm Macdonald

LOL.

82 posted on 05/29/2024 8:22:01 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: Roadrunner383

“Somebody had to be ‘that guy’, show up and start insulting his musical talent because they don’t like his politics”

Nope. I thought him overrated as a guitarist before I knew he also was an ignorant British communist.


83 posted on 05/29/2024 8:56:16 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: ABN 505

Neil never could sing. He whined.


84 posted on 05/29/2024 10:20:56 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Apparatchik

That was my take also. Guess he does support Nazis and Hamas.


85 posted on 05/29/2024 10:43:42 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: dfwgator

Thanks!


86 posted on 05/29/2024 11:26:05 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: af_vet_1981

A tremendous winnowing is happening right now.

Clapton’s choices are on his own head.


87 posted on 05/29/2024 11:39:46 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: mbrfl

Actually he has a point when you look at how much Israel seems to control our policy towards them. Don’t kid yourself the Israel Lobby in the U.S. and England is pretty strong.


88 posted on 05/29/2024 11:42:36 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: mbrfl

89 posted on 05/29/2024 11:47:36 AM PDT by x
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To: BlueStateRightist
I thought him overrated as a guitarist before I knew he also was an ignorant British communist.

That's Roger Waters. Clapton's been relatively apolitical. He's been against mass immigration (though he later backtracked some), against the fox hunting ban, and against COVID lockdowns.

90 posted on 05/29/2024 11:52:12 AM PDT by x
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To: Starboard

“Gary Moore was a far better blues guy and much more versatile player Clapton. Moore was able to play outside the box.”

Totally agree, employed altered chords, chord extentions, hot jazz chord patterns, like T-bone used to do. Allman bros took a page out of the T-bone Walker library also.


91 posted on 05/29/2024 12:21:16 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: P-Marlowe

“ I can nane a hundred guitar players that can run circles around Clapton. He’s an average guitar player. ”

No you can’t. And no he isn’t average.


92 posted on 05/29/2024 1:59:13 PM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991)
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To: Clutch Martin

Moore used a Bmin7b5 in a 5 of 5 pattern in Still Got the Blues, a blues masterpiece. Not your usual rock fare. Just one example of his virtuosity.


93 posted on 05/29/2024 2:26:12 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Gary from Dayton

Oh yes I can. But you’ve probably never heard of them. I’ll name a few.

Tommy Emmanuel
Robben Ford
Richard Smith
Robbie Calvo
Mike Dawes
Andy McGee
Joe Bonnamassa
Joe Satriani
Eric Johnson


94 posted on 05/29/2024 5:31:23 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

And so is the Islamic lobby. Don’t kid yourself.


95 posted on 05/29/2024 6:37:02 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: P-Marlowe

Al DiMeola
John McLaughlin


96 posted on 05/29/2024 6:41:20 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: af_vet_1981

[There is a pandemic of evil sweeping the world led by the Father of Lies.]

Now THAT is absolutely true. To me, it’s another sign that we’re in the Last Days. Which is why I have such fervor (or maybe a fever, LOL)

I have basically had to write off 2 friends in recent months.

One, just last week.

To be honest, I don’t know that I can ever trust them again.

And that is basically prophesied in the Bible; that you will be betrayed, often by those seemingly closest to you.


97 posted on 05/29/2024 8:09:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: AppyPappy

IT VAS DA JOOOOOS!!! /is it 1938 again?


98 posted on 05/29/2024 8:10:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

[A tremendous winnowing is happening right now.]

Not that long ago I stated that

the sheep

are being separated

from the goats


99 posted on 05/29/2024 8:12:20 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: dfwgator

“That’s Disraeli?”

Kevin Spacey in “The Doomsday Gun”

Actually pretty good. And the Iraqi General (character) was actually named for one of Saddam’s son-in-laws (who he asked to return to Iraq, then murdered)


100 posted on 05/29/2024 8:14:51 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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