La Scala boss and stars demand Gaza ceasefire
balletFrom the Associated Press:
Just before an opera-ballet set in conflict, La Scala’s principal dancer Roberto Bolle, general manager Dominique Meyer and other members of the dance company, orchestra and stage crew faced the audience as the curtain rose. It revealed a banner with the imperative: “Cease fire.”
The sentiment referring to the war in Gaza received a standing ovation lasting at least two minutes Saturday evening before the final performance of the opera house’s original production “Madina.” It tells the story of a Chechen woman who is manipulated to become a suicide bomber after she is orphaned and raped by Russian soldiers.
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Or what?
The people who have to make the decision don’t care about what artists and American city councils demand of them. Nor should they.
Or boycott Israeli artists. Israel has killed more Palestinians than Russia has killed Ukrainians. Just sayin’.
Israel killed more palestinians than the nazis murdered jews and Netanyahu shot JR.
According to whose figures?
totally stupid. Don’t hold an entire nation of people responsible for the actions of their elected government. Not every Israeli or Jew agrees with what Netanyahu is doing or wanted him in office.
Verissssimo!!
Has Hamas agreed to return hostages and cease fire? If not, I don’t think the military mission is complete. Just sayin’
And if Hamas refuses, as they do since their creation?
Cease fire lapel buttons were also common at the Oscars ceremony. Netanyahu has seriously harmed Israel. I hope he will soon be removed from office and never return.
What are your feelings about Hamas, as if I care?
But no buttons demanding immediate release of hostages. How heart-warming of overpaid people playing make-believe
Bravo for La Scala and for the brave artists who are demanding a cease fire.
Brave? They run no risk whatsoever.
Did they demand immediate release of innocent hostages? No. Just sing.
Is this about a demand for Hamas to release the hostages and end hostilities? Then, bravo, indeed.
They should also have thrown paint at paintings. All of these actions help a lot.
There *was* a cease fire on October 6.
Who broke that?
There was peace in the middle east in 1947, who broke that?
There wasn’t peace 1947. There was Zionist terrorist partisans war that succeed to get Jewish state by UN vote.
The same side that has been breaking every ceasefire agreement and rejecting every peace proposal for over 75 years now – definitely not the side that has been blamed most by so-called United (mainly by their antisemitism) Nations.
Bravo.
La Scala boss???
La Scala ex-boss!
Let’s get the hackneyed notion out of the way. Greart art and music will not make the world a better place. So just keep singing, playing, dancing or whatever you do and keep out of politics. — As Lorin Mazaal said when he took the NY Phil to North Korea.
Cease fire, or we will, er, come over there and sing loudly in your faces? Or something.
Yup. Just don’t expect them to do anything ‘useful’, like actively support their ’cause’ which ‘means so much to them’.
Maybe they should all enlist to fight in Al-Assad’s Syrian war, put their names down to help out Saudi Arabia against Yemen or even raise their chin to Xi-Jin Ping (or whatever spelling of his name is currently being colported in the media) about his treatment of the Uigurs.
No takers? Just as I thought. You only have a problem with muslims dying when it’s ‘non-Muslims’ (sic) defending themselves in the process. Welcome to the 1930s.
You useful idiots have learned nothing. Hardly surprising, since you’re incapable of independent thought. Get an education.
Italians love Hamas and Russia
Self-serving luxury virtue signalling, completely out of step with reality, but what can you expect? The Gazan ‘genocide’ has seen the population rise from 1.3 million in 2005 to over two million today. If Israel really is ‘committing genocide’ then they’re clearly not very good at it. Maybe these airheads should try the phrase ‘Return all hostages now’.
Hoorah!
Every OK in your comfortable neighbourhood, thousands of miles from Israel?
There are still decent people in the world
…who resist the brainless support of Islamic terrorists. Yes, absolutely.