Roger Waters Wants Another Wall To Come Down

From Gibson.com

Roger Waters Wants Another Wall to Come Down
Aidin Vaziri | 06.04.2009

The man whose former band helped celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall now wants to do the same for Israel’s West Bank wall.

Roger Waters, who co-wrote Pink Floyd’s landmark The Wall album, promised during a visit to a Palestinian refugee camp on Tuesday that he would perform a concert on the spot if the barrier came down.

Taking exception to Israel’s reasoning that the wall was built as a defense against Palestinian militants, the 65-year old classic rock and roll musician said that he hoped “this thing, this awful thing, is destroyed soon.”

A day earlier, Waters spoke to students in the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem, warning, “I am not of the Bono school, who goes around the world being nice to everyone. When I have bad words to say I say them.”

Accordingly, in the same speech he characterized the West Bank security barrier “an obscenity for other people in the world. It looks OK to Jews here and maybe in other places where they live, but people around the world see it as a weird way to live.”

Israeli officials contend that terror attacks have dropped significantly since its construction.