Land of Security Know-How: Re-Branding Israel

[Keith Millea]

No matter how many PR firms Israel hires,it can't hide the truth.
Everybody Knows..........

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/05/18-3
05.18.10 - 10:15 PM
It Is After Considerable Contemplation

by Abby Zimet

Elvis Costello has cancelled two performances scheduled in Israel to protest "conditions that visit intimidation, humiliation or much worse on Palestinian civilians in the name of national security." Following similar moves by Santana and Gil Scott-Heron, Costello called the decision "a matter of instinct and conscience."

"One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether intending to elate or lament...Then there are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than anything that might be sung and it may be assumed that one has no mind for the suffering of the innocent."