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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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Err...

that should probably be

one of Saddam’s sons-in-law


101 posted on 05/29/2024 8:29:14 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: mbrfl

Even this dipshit?


102 posted on 05/29/2024 8:30:32 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: mbrfl

Christopher Cross.


103 posted on 05/30/2024 12:10:33 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: P-Marlowe

Yes, Christopher Cross. Just curious. Did you see Rick Beato’s video on him?


104 posted on 05/30/2024 12:21:31 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

Google, MS, Apple, TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter (X) run the world.


105 posted on 05/30/2024 12:22:26 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: mbrfl

Yes. I didn’t realize how great a guitar master he was till I saw that video. Then I listened to all his songs again.

I left out Pat Metheny.

If we can go into the great guitar masters that have passed on, then Glen Campbell and Tommy Tedesco would have to be at the top of the list. Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, BBKing, Albert King….

All these guys could play circles around Clapton, and he’d be the first to admit it.

Clapton is a standard blues guitarist. He rarely plays outside the box. He was the Father of British blues and for that genre, yes, he’s the best. But like British food, it lacks a lot of spice.


106 posted on 05/30/2024 7:11:07 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: P-Marlowe

“ But you’ve probably never heard of them”

You have no clue about who or what I know. Music and aviation are right in my wheelhouse.


107 posted on 05/30/2024 8:40:30 AM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991)
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To: Gary from Dayton

Then you should know that Clapton is not the best guitar player of all time.

Maybe he’s in the top 10 of most influential, but as far as musical skills, technique and innovation, there are at least 100 who could play circles around him. And he’d be the first to admit it. He called Tommy Emmanuel the best guitar player he’d ever heard. Have you even heard of him? Tommy Emmanuel said that Chet Atkins was the greatest guitar player he’d ever heard.

Most rock guitar players put Jimi Hendrix at #1.

As far as Blues, have you heard Robben Ford? He took the blues to a whole new level and continues to do it every time he releases a new album. And honestly, is Clapton even in the same league with Joe Bonnsmassa? Really?


108 posted on 05/30/2024 9:50:06 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: Candor7

I’m not reading your novella.


109 posted on 05/30/2024 9:52:06 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: tumblindice

No problem.


110 posted on 05/30/2024 9:52:49 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: P-Marlowe

“ Then you should know that Clapton is not the best guitar player of all time”

That’s not a claim I have ever made. I just refuted the claim that he was average.

Hendrix wasn’t around long enough to be the best ever. Maybe had he lived and put out more music.
Randy Rhoads was the player I was most impressed but too short of a career also.
Stevie Ray Vaughan certainly was getting there too.
I like Satrani
Tom Schultz is up there too.
My personal favorite is Mark Knopfler but I don’t think I would rank him 1.
Eddie Van Halen deserves a mention.
My other favorite are in Jazz like George Benson, Lee Ritenour and Norman Brown.


111 posted on 05/30/2024 2:29:07 PM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991)
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To: mbrfl

He supports KGB Russia and Hamas. Guess who will not be seeing his son in Heaven.


112 posted on 05/31/2024 2:36:27 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: dfwgator

So Clapton feels bad for the Nazis and Nuremberg and screams about Israeli rule, because he thinks that importing antisemitic Muslims is a Jewish plot. Drug abuse does bad things to the brain


113 posted on 05/31/2024 2:39:50 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: BlueStateRightist
Overrated musician is now an overrated thinker.

Classic self-abuse, where success in life is taken for competence in other areas of life.

114 posted on 06/05/2024 6:48:29 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: mbrfl

Eric you want Hamas running the world? They aka Muslims are already trying to run the UK.


115 posted on 07/27/2024 1:17:20 PM PDT by dennisw
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