Roger Waters had barely finished his strange double performance of “Dark-Side of the Moon” at the London “Palladium” when he went into his stately home, brewed some tea and sat down in front of his computer.
Camera on, microphone on.
What follows is a five and a half minute clip about the Gaza war, in which you can only see his head in full view.
The gray grumbler updates his special view of things. No differentiation, everything as expected. What is astonishing at best is the drastic style of his tirade in black and white.
He talks himself into a rage.
He waited a week after the Hamas massacres at the hippie techno festival and the kibbutz complex.
And now: THAT had to be said, that had to come out! After that, it should be clear from the last one what makes the Pink Floyd co-founder tick.
“His heart is heavy” given the fighting expected in the next few days in Gaza City and the entire 40-kilometer-long coastal area on the eastern Mediterranean between Israel and Egypt. The whole thing will most likely be terrible, no question about it.
But Waters doesn’t mention the history of thousands of deaths and injuries, nor the long-prepared attack by Hamas.
Instead, he self-righteously attacks the “liberal Western democracies.” They wouldn’t have listened to him, the eternal BDS drummer. It is a look with a pre-defined perspective, presented with the usual pathos.
“Joe Biden sent an aircraft carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean. What’s the plan, Joe? Will the US join in the genocidal bombing of children in Gaza? NO?”
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is also under attack, also because he would allegedly massively criminalize the BDS boycott system.
As usual, Roger Waters cooks up his film, which has been repeated in a matric manner. A look in which there is only black and only white. Being faithful to one’s own convictions is his vegetable.
“I stand fully with you for the entire oppressed Palestinian people.”
And:
“No more war crimes” – only from the Israeli side, of course.
One of his key statements about the events:
“Let’s come to last Saturday morning. Did the Palestinian resistance fighters who escaped from Gaza’s open-air prison have a legal right and a moral obligation to defend themselves against the occupier of their land?
His answer:
“Yes, they did!”
He barely regrets all the violence. He says too. “No more killing by anyone, including Hamas and the IDF.”
Nevertheless, he maintains that Israel must kindly accept “that the Zionist experiment has failed because it can only be continued with more killings. It would also mean an end to Israel’s illegal military occupation of all Palestinian land.”
Waters is not alone in the world with this opinion. His position is now a shade clearer than it has been many times before.