I have heard, through an israeli musician who lives in New York and was one of the organizers of one of the benefit concerts for Israeli/Palestinians peace organizations, that the organizers contacted Zorn and got the impression that he has nothing against the Israeli politics and nothing to say about the brutal occupation regime over the Palestinian territories Marc Ribot, Marty Ehrlich, Anthony Coleman, Jennifer Charles and obviously Elliot Sharp, think diffrently.

I was reffering only to the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Shron as a war-criminal, and i don't think that the Palestinian leaders are much better. Assasinations, house demolitions (hunderds if not more) and denying medical and food supplies, sometines for months, are considered as war crimes, and all done by Israeli soldiers. The Palestinian, again, are not innocents. So i was just urging our friend Kevin to act.

Peace,

Eyal

>From: Efr��n del Valle

>To: "kevin.by"

>CC: zorn-list@lists.xmission.com

>Subject: RE: to get a bit political here

>Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:02:07 +0200 (CEST)

>HI,

>Zorn has stated repeatedly that he's not interested in

>politics at all. Not even in albums like

>"Kristallnacht" or his Masada group, so in his case,

>it would be useful not to mix politics with music, and

>even less races or religion with arts.

>Furthermore, Eyal, I've never read or heard anything

>about pro-Zionism related to Zorn's figure. Cultural

>Zionism should be something else, I guess.

>The Israel-Palestine conflict is something so complex,

>ancient and somehow everlasting that it seems

>difficult to point at the "real" criminal (politically

>speaking, that is). It's something similar to the

>Balkans puzzle. If we had to express an opinion we

>should probably go back hundreds of years to say

>something that made a slight sense.

>Best,

>Efr��n del Valle

> --- "kevin.by" escribi��: > i wish

>i was there to see Zorn but i can't afford

> > going down there. there WILL

> > be mass protests though...it might be trouble

> > actually.

> > i just hope Zorn don't support Ariel Sharon's

> > actions. he's a HUGE criminal.

> > bear in mind, i got nothing agains the Isreali

> > people - i'm not saying someone

> > like Arafat is any better.

> >

> > is it really so that Zorn never speaks politics? has

> > he ever spoken his mind

> > on the situation over there?

> >

> > kevin.

> >

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