Monday, July 19, 2010

Open Letter to the rotten John Lydon: 'Rise' against Racism

Dear John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), We are academics and students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our parents and grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes by the nascent Israeli army in the 1948 Nakba. We have since lived in the ghetto of the Gaza Strip refugee camps, like the more than 6 million Palestinian refugees all round the world. They still have their keys locked up in their closets and will pass them on to their children. UN resolution 194 guarantees our right to return our villages. Many of us have lost our fathers, some of us have lost our mothers, and some of us lost both in the last Israeli aggression against civilians in Gaza.
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When confronted with complaints about his next gig in Tel Aviv, the Rotten one replied: "Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how the Palestinians are treated."
So maybe someone should remind him that Israel is no more democratic than Lebanon, an Arab country, also a democracy, and Turkey, a Muslim country, a democracy too...
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6 comments:

  1. Linda J.July 19, 2010 at 10:47 PM

    So why's he going to a theocracy?  It sounds like he only goes to democracies.

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  2. thankgodimatheistJuly 20, 2010 at 12:31 AM

    A theocracy alright Linda..rapidly moving away from some alleged secularism of the founding fathers who, even then, had to make bed with ultra conservative theocratic figures in zionism..

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  3. PitirreJuly 20, 2010 at 5:56 AM

    On July 18, a bombshell report appeared in the Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot. The article, which has only been published in Hebrew and was buried on page 8 as a small news item, stated that 550 officers and soldiers who participated in Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009 have been investigated by IDF military police for possible war crimes. (...) Maybe Judge Goldstone wasn't so crazy after all.

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  4. Jemmy HopeJuly 20, 2010 at 11:36 AM

    This investigation is probably prior to handing out decorations - the bigger the crime the bigger the medal.

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  5. Jemmy HopeJuly 20, 2010 at 11:41 AM

    A talentless, self-promoting, slimeball. I wish him on the zionists.

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  6. uncle joe mccarthyJuly 24, 2010 at 11:48 PM

    johnny rotten spits on all of you

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