Watch: Daniel Barenboim on the West Bank

Watch: Daniel Barenboim on the West Bank

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norman lebrecht

June 13, 2017

The conductor has been working today with young Palestinian musicians.

He now seems reluctant to accept that the 1967 war was a matter of survival for Israel and speaks of it instead as a prelude to occupation.

He adds: ‘Jewish blood runs through my veins and my heart bleeds for the Palestinians’.

Barenboim speaks here to the BBC.

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