Jan 5 2009
Annie Lennox Speaks Up for Gaza
We were hard pressed here at GoLeft to find any celebrities coming out against the horrific bombings in Gaza, so this recent footage from a protest in London with Annie Lennox speaking eloquently on the need to end the bombing lifted our spirits that someone with influence is not afraid to speak out. See below.
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Annie Lennox’s statement to the press relating to the Gaza war is surprising by its total disregard for Israeli suffering.
Israelis have had to submit to hundreds of terrorist attacks, ie. attacks against their civilian population for over 40 years now. In a recent eight day period, 300 missiles were sent into Israel with missiles at times hitting southern cities, towns and villages. The constant psychic toll of never knowing if a missile will claim you is a staggering demand to make of any individual.
As Canadian Nobel prize for literature nominee, Irving Layton once put it, “Why should they be expected to sit there like clay ducks in a shooting gallery?”
And as we speak of Canada, Canada has not been hit even once by a terrorist attack and yet it has enacted legislation that allows for “security certificates”, ie. the right of Canadian enforcement agencies to detain and charge anyone suspected of planning to commit a terrorist act, without them knowing what the charges are. If Canada can go that way without even one attack, surely Israel has the right to properly defend itself considering the kind of long history it has had to endure relating to attacks against its civilian population.
The war in the Falklands was a British war over a wisp of a land mass in the middle of nowhere in the Atlantic over a very questionable British possession. In effect the war was fought for ego reasons alone, but approx. 300 Argentinian sailors were blown out of the Atlantic by the British navy. Where was Annie Lennox? Did she protest? In contrast Israel is fighting for the survival of its population and its towns and villages.
Is part of the truth that: Annie Lennox knows who’s buttering her bread in the U.K. ; that it’s ok to kick the Israelis but that to keep one’s nose clean in Britain is imperative. I checked Ms. Lennox’s website forum sub-section, “Activism”. Actually her scope for activism is puzzlingly restricted for someone so vocal and passionate in her attack against Israeli force. There ‘s not a sign of any activism to fight British Petroleum, known to be not only corrupt in its predation but a company with one of the world’s worst pollution records (which other Brits have protested); or British presence in Iraq (incl. abuses) (which other Brits have protested); or the refusal by British museums to allow for repatriation of iconic heritage cultural art treasure heirlooms by the African countries of origin , from whom they were stolen during days of “Empire"(which other Brits have protested).
Although Ms. Lennox is a Scotswoman, it’s clear she has been infected by English sanctimonious finger pointing hypocrisy, and is cow-towing to it.
Alexie Sayle (an English Jew), Harold Pinter (an English Jew), and Annie Lenox ( a woman married to an Israeli )have all needed to “make penance” for the sins of Israel. They have no need to make pennance for days of Empire. Neither Sayole or Pinter or Lennox have ever protested BBC TV drama programming that glorifies the days of the British Empire, an Empire that enslaved hundreds of thousands of Africans , that pillaged their resources and art treasures and hung signs on their whiskey cocktail lounges saying, “No entrance to natives”.
They make penance while Israelis wonder where and when the next missile is coming.
What I’m really ranting about is not her expression of compassion for Gazans. That’s totally understandable. It’s her Calvinist dualist view that makes her blind and does not allow her to stand up at the same news conference and show some compassion for the Israeli side.
Yes, I confess that though Ms. Lennox is an admirable artist, I will NEVER AGAIN PURCHASE any of her recordings.
“I am battling against the worst of the English vices: hypocrisy” - Oscar Wilde
“We live in a country with structured hypocrisy” - John LeCarre
By Arik Carlo on Jan 20 2009
Very eloquently written, Arik—the spine of your argument seems to lie in the idea that Isreal must defend itself from attack. Can you tell, in brief, why you think that the Palestinians initiate such attacks on the border towns of Isreal?
By Jacqueline Guzda on Jan 20 2009
seems to me like her call for peace is speaking to both sides. Also, I don’t think you can fault Annie Lennox or anyone for not having the time, resources or energy to protest every conceivable thing out there that needs to be protested against. I’m not doing anything actively against homelessness or nuclear proliferation, but I wouldn’t want anyone to assume that I’m for those things.
By don1972 on Jan 20 2009
Interesting perspective Arik. I think she should have at least mentioned those who were injured in Israel as a sign of good faith, but I believe Israel’s retaliation to the rocket attacks was excessive. Hundreds, if not, thousands of civilians died in the bombing attacks.
I understand that Israel is protecting its citizens the most effective way possible, but the answer to the attacks is not more violence. This is a vicious cycle that needs cooperation and understanding on both sides in order to end. Israel will have to make concessions. The U.N. mandate that created Israel also created a Palestinian state. The Palestinians were promised their own state after helping defeat the Ottoman Empire in WWI. Israel and the Palestinians hold the key to settling this issue...they both have to meet half way though.
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The U.N. mandate that created Israel also created a Palestinian state. The Palestinians were promised their own state after helping defeat the Ottoman Empire in WWI. Israel and the Palestinians hold the key to settling this issue..
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By Walker on Aug 29 2009
This hysterical defense of the indefensible acts in Gaza against the population at the same time more and more Jewish settlements are being placed on Palestinian lands in the West bank against international law is just typical of the moral double standard when it comes to Israel. Just don’t ask me to believe that they are the “ good guys” in the Mid East and as long as they have the US taxpayer’s to depend on for the latest killer weapons, they are not even the “lesser evil” in the Mid East. Ask the guys who survived 45 minutes of Gaza like action on the US radio ship The Liberty.
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of course it’s typical and besides they discovered that the moderator for the panel that day was an armenian dude who has written really controversial BS on turkey and turkish history (obviously including the fairy tale of the so called armo genocide) which really explains a lot.
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Arik is an Israeli.
There is no reason to listen to a word these lying, Nazi scum say.
Jews of character are HAPPY to see israelis get blown to shreds. We consider it a matter of hygiene. We consider it a step toward reclaiming the GOOD name of Jews, which the filth of Israel have dragged through the gutter.
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By Adelaide on Oct 1 2009
I am a new Annie Lennox fan, but she is brutally honest about life and issues people experience. Life IS hard. We aren’t always where we want to be in our lives. She really is an amazing woman.
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