Pink Floyd’S Roger Waters: Why Moral Perversity Of U.S. Position In Gaza Is Stunning

[Purveyor]

I think it's safe to say that if U.S. neighborhoods were living under siege, folks like Rand Paul wouldn't take it

Roger Waters

The carnage in Gaza continues after the latest collapse of cease-fire talks and over four weeks of asymmetrical bombardment by Israel. With the death of more than 2,000 Palestinians, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands more, the complicity of the American government has been exposed to the world as never before. Yet the mantra repeated ad nauseam by the U.S. government and media alike remains the same: Israel has a right to defend itself.

The moral perversity of the U.S. position is stunning. How can the U.S. government ask Israel to be more careful about civilian lives while simultaneously arming and then rearming the IDF so it can more effectively inflict such devastation on an imprisoned and occupied people?

The U.S. could act to stop the senseless slaughter but it won’t. Instead, it’s cheerleading. Members of Congress are mindlessly parroting Israeli talking points without a thought given to the Palestinian perspective or to preserving human life. Brimming with righteousness, they argue for turning Israel loose – Sen. Rand Paul in particular – and invoke Israel’s right to self-defense, despite the fact that, as the occupying power, Israel has an obligation to protect the Palestinians it rules, not massacre them.

Do congressional leaders ever stop to wonder what they would do if they were born Palestinian, had their homes and private property stolen from them, and were forced to live without freedom under an illegal Israeli occupation for 47 years? Do they know what it means to be on the receiving end of Israel’s barbaric “mow the lawn” euphemism? Scarcely a word is said about the rights of Palestinians who are being pummeled from the sky and shot dead in their neighborhoods by the region’s most powerful military. What, I wonder, would Americans do if it were their neighborhoods being invaded and if they were the ones living under siege? I think it’s safe to say Americans wouldn’t stand for it.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/08/25/pink_floyds_roger_waters_why_moral_perversity_of_u_s_position_in_gaza_is_stunning/

[Purveyor]

1. Related: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Calls Rand Paul A “Mindless Parrot”

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Calls Rand Paul A “Mindless Parrot”

by 2Paragraphs in Daily Edition | August 25, 2014

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters wrote an article entitled “Why Moral Perversity of US Position In Gaza Is Stunning” — published on Salon. “Members of Congress are mindlessly parroting Israeli talking points without a thought given to the Palestinian perspective or to preserving human life,” Waters wrote. “I think it’s safe to say that if U.S. neighborhoods were living under siege, folks like Rand Paul wouldn’t take it.” Waters points out “the fact that, as the occupying power, Israel has an obligation to protect the Palestinians it rules, not massacre them.”

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is preparing for a potential presidential run and trying to aggressively assert his support for Israel. Paul recently proposed a bill called the “Stand With Israel Act” in Congress. Rogers thinks the act would be better called “Stand With Israel No Matter What.” In preparation for his presidential candidacy, Paul is working on a new book outlining his stances on pertinent issues including the Middle East. Roger Waters, on the other hand, has recently written a poem called “Crystal Clear Brooks,” with which he ends his Salon article.

http://2paragraphs.com/2014/08/pink-floyds-roger-waters-calls-paul-rand-a-mindless-parrot/

[Fred Sanders]

2. Purveyor, the poem Walters attached at the end of his post is stunning, would you please attach to

your post?

[BillZBubb]

3. Roger Waters has always been very politically aware.

He certainly nailed the dishonesty and immorality of the US position.

[whereisjustice]

4. The US seems to be obsessed with moral perversity: torture, spying, wall street crime,

congressional corruption, corporate whores masquerading as journalists, massive economic and judicial disparity, bombs and cash for slaughter of innocent people in Gaza, all of it legitimized in the minds of those demanding uncritical compliance with the "new reality".

[zeemike]

5. I don't think it is any accident

That all the truly great artist and musicians are on the side of peace and justice.
The muses of art do not come to those who are not.

[Purveyor]

6. Agreed. They are the real 'Chosen Ones' in my book. Thanks for posting that. eom

[bobthedrummer]

9. I'm a musician, born into a musical family. Am I in your book then, Purveyor, as a Chosen One? nt

[xocet]

7. The Fletcher Memorial Home...

[Hoppy]

8. Rogers gotta understand.

AIPAC gives money to Congress, Hillary, Rand.


Occupied Palistinians don't