Israeli conductor presents Middle East solution
NewsHamburg Opera’s incoming music director Omer Meir Wellber has been giving his thoughts on the Gaza conflict.
He tells the local (paywalled) press that the ideal solution is Gaza without Hamas and Israel without Netanyahu.
Just like that.
If Omer knows how to get there, the space below is open to him.
Well written article.
There is no easy solution, however his observations are spot-on.
Read here without paywall:
https://archive.is/20231120080614/https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/kultur/article240607816/Krieg-in-Nahost-Warum-der-Dirigent-aus-Israel-gespalten-ist.html
Ingratitude is the reward of the world. Even Churchill was voted out after WWII.
Wellber shamefully puts the level of Palestinazi criminals of war folly to the stature of Netanyahu, the greatest leader in the history of Israel for many, who elect him in the most legitimate possible way. Problem is, The left in Israel has been historically and serially wrong about practically almost anything, but in order to retain power they first started these Dreyfus-Netanyahu fake trials, then they promised the military and intelligence will be abstaining and that’s exactly what permitted the Hamas pogroms. Wellber in his “illuminated “ view is a shamefully sanctimonious leftist, convenient to maintain his job of course, like Barenboim who supplies mental catharsis to Germans when he tells them Israel approaches similar dynamics to Nazi Germany.
Even conservative Jews acknowledge that Netanyahu enabled Hamas before October 7.
Such balance, you have!
Hamburg without Omer.
He is a great conductor.
Well, duh. While no fan of Bibi here, I am with him on this one. Hope he doesn’t cave in to international pressure. As for Hamas (pronounced exactly as the Spanish “jamás” which means “never” or “never again”), the Palestinians everyone is being pressured to align with have had ample opportunity and time to unseat their “leadership”, which has kept them destitute and depraved, but have not done so. This is why there should be little mercy until the terrorists are hunted down.
He may well be correct in that conclusion.
But any false equivalence between a democratically elected government of any stripe with a proscribed terrorist organisation who rules at the point of a gun as a foreign proxy, dangerously perpetuates the narrative that devalues long fought-for constitutional freedoms wherever democracy seeks to function.
Such equivalency fulfills a crucial element of Hamas’ PR victory:
To legitimise the unforgivable.
If he has such instant sollutions to one of the worst conflicts on the planet, why doesn’t he run for Israel’s prime minister position?
Because he is a music conductor. This does not means he cannot have an opinion. Nor does it mean he has to become a politician for having that opinion.
We all may have opinions. If you read the article you will find that Omer Welber has a solution and this is very different. Did Rabin’s assasination and Arafat’s death solve a thing?
Oh good. The world’s always wondered what Omer Meir Wellber thinks about international geopolitics.
Jonathan Freedland agrees. So do I. That settles it.
The whatabout replies to this item are hilarious. “Where was Welber during the Expulsion from Spain?”