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The dark side of Pink Floyd's Roger Waters

Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is abhorrent, even for an aging rock star.
(FILES) Roger Waters, British rock legend and co founder of the group Pink Floyd, paints a graffiti at Israel’s separation barrier surrounding the West Bank town of Bethlehem the day before his concert near Tel Aviv, 21 June 2006. The United Nations on August 19, 2009 premiered a film narrated by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters on the plight of Palestinians living in the shadow of Israel's controversial separation barrier. The 15-minute film entitled "Walled Horizons" was made in honour of the fifth
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Greetings and Shalom, Roger Waters,

As I write this letter, I pray that it reaches you. Ever since my teens, way back in the early '70s, I’ve dreamed of writing you a personal letter to thank you for the great moments that the music you wrote and performed with Pink Floyd contributed to my life. I never thought a day would come when I’d be writing you another kind of letter, I never thought that my cultural hero would disappoint me, and maybe also those of my generation in Israel, so terribly. 

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