Tuesday, 3 December 2024

The Peacock 1443

"I have performed in Tel aviv", says Carol. "twice. I have never played before such an appreciative or receptive audience before. The Israelis are simply wonderful." "Try living there for a while", says Amanda. "Oh, I imagine it must be hard with the suicide bombings and terrorist attacks." "It is much harder to live in a place for ten yers where the aboriginal inhabitants, the Palestinian people, are deprived of their most basic rights and freedoms and treated like cockroaches." "I imagine the israelis deserve to be safe." "Everyone deserves to be safe." "But the Palesinians wsant to drive them off their own land..." "Of course they do. Or some of them. It is after all their land." "but God promised it to the Jewish people." "And then he kicked them out because they put him to death on a cross. "You don't actually believe they did it", says Carol. Carl interjects, "The Romans did it, but they were under the orders of the Jews, so it is a shared culpability. Amanda, you never told me any of this during the interviews. is there anything here you might want to add...

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