Concert promoting Israel-Palestinian peace deal called off after threats

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

October 14, 2007 (JERUSALEM) - A peace concert promoting a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict was called off Sunday after threats were made to Palestinians supporting the event.

The New York-based One Voice organization had planned to hold simultaneous concerts in Tel Aviv and the West Bank town of Jericho, with Canadian rock star Bryan Adams in lead billing.

The Jericho concert was called off last week due to security concerns, including threats to blow up the West Bank office of One Voice, said group founder Daniel Lubetzky. On Sunday, the Tel Aviv concert was canceled in solidarity.

"Our mission is not to entertain ... It is to mobilize moderate voices," said Lubetzky, a New York businessman. "If we have to postpone, we have to postpone."

Organizers of One Voice aim to collect a million signatures from Israelis and Palestinians calling for their leaders to negotiate a final peace settlement by October 2008. The concert was meant to support the signature campaign, with those attending the event -- free of charge -- required to sign the petition.



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[gateley]

1. Is this the height of irony or what? nt

[Trajan]

2. Of course those who would moderate the ME rhetoric ....

Have to be threatened, right ?

Peace seems such a remote possibility now ..... thanks to all the haters of the world ....

Fuck them ...... Right up their hateful arses ....

[DesertFlower]

3. that's very sad.

i would think it was Hamas making the threats.

remember what barack obama said? (paraphrasing) "no one has suffered more than the palestinian people because of their leadership refusing to negotiate with israel."

[tidy_bowl]

4. Those violent Jews! nt