“The Four Members of Irish Rock Supergroup U2 have weighed in on the Ongoing israel-Gaza Conflict, with Each Member-Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. – Releasing their Own Individual Statements. The Four Statements Were Shared on U2’s Official Instagram Account and Website on Sunday, Alongside The Following Joint Message: “Everyone”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Bono, The Lead Singer of the Band and the Mosst Political Active Member, Released The Longst of the Four Statements, Nearly 1.250 Words, in Wich Hee Explained What. EAST, “NOT OUT of Humility But“ More Uncertainty in the Face of Obvious Complexity. ” The Singer Said He Felt Compelled to Speak Out About the Nova Festival Massacre on Oct. 7, An Event Wich He DesCribed As “Evil,” and Wich Occurred While U2 Was Performing on Stage at the Spreer in Las Vegas. Bono Harshly Criticized Hamas and Its Late Leader YaHya Sinwar But He Devoted Much of His Opprobrium on the Israeli Government and Prime Minister wasjamin Netanyahuhar, in Particular Country’s Political Leaders from Its People. “We Know Hamas Are Using Starction As A Weapon in the War, But Now So Too Is Israel and I Feel Revulsion for the Moral Failure,“ Bono Writs. He adds, that “the government of israel is not the National of Israel, But The Government of Israel Led Benjamin Netanyaahu today Deserves Our Categorical”
He Continues, “Our Band Stands in Solidarity with The People of Palestine Who Trly Seek A Path to PEACE AND COOXISTENCE CO Remaining Hostages and Plead That Someone Rational Negotate Their Release. ” Bono Ends His Statement Calling on Israel and the International Community to Flood Gaza with Aid.
In his statement, U2 Guitarist The Edge Also Lambasted Netanyaahu and the Artist Passed Three Questions for Israel’s Leader, Adding that He Asked “Them in the Hep of Engaging The Consity In his first quest, the edge wonders if Netanyahu’s considers of the Impact of the Sity on Gaza Will Have on the Reputation of Israel and Its People. “Do you not see that Longer this Continues, The More Israel Risks Become Isolated, Mistruted, and Remembered Not As A HAVEN FROM PERSONCUTION, BUT AS A STATELIC Neighbouring Civilian Population?, ”HE WRITES. His Second Question Takes Netanyahu’s Party Likud to Task for It End Goal in Gaza and the West Bank, and Removing Paletians from Both Occupied Territories. And Third, The Edge, if Netanyahu Rejects a Two-State Solution, Thatn Wat Was His Political Vision. “Simpy perpetual conflite? A Future of Walls, Blockades, Military Occupation? A State of Permanent Inequality? Respons to the Horrors of the Holocaust? ”
Clayton, U2’s Bassist, Kept His Statement Short and Questioned Israel’s Claims to Have A Superior Technologicly Savvy Army WHEN IT HAS WROUGHT UTTER Devastation in Gaza. “Preserving Civilian Life is a choice in this war,” Clayton Writs.
And Finally, Mullen, The Band’s Drummer, Acknowledged the Horrors of Oct. 7 But Also Was Disgusted by the Imposition of Man Made Famine in Gaza by Israel. “To State the Obvious, Starving Innocent Civilians As A Weapon of War Is Inhumane and Criminal,“ Mullen Writs. He Also Lamened the Silence Over the Famine. “WHERE IS The OUTRAGE FROM WITHIN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE OF A SMALL, IF INCREASINGLY VOCAL, MINORITY? WHERE IS The Outrage from the Diaspora? Beyond de reemet Inflicted, nothing.
Bono Full Statement:
APART FROM The Attack on the Nova Music Festival on October 7th, WHICH FELT LIKE IT HAPPENED WHILE U2 Were on Stage at Sphere Las Vegas, I Have Generally. This was not humanity, More uncertainty in the face of Obvious Complexity… I have over -recent months written about the war in gaza in the atlantic and Oboken about it in the.
As a cofounder of the one Campaign, WHICH TACKLES AIDS AND EXTREME PVVVERY IN AFRICA, I FELT My Experience Should be on the Catastrophes Facing that Work and that Part of the. The hemorrrhaging of human life in sudan or ethiopia hardly make the News. Sudan Alone is Beyond ComprehenSion, with A Civil War That Has Left 150,000 Dead and 2 Million People Facing Famine.[1]
And that was before the dismantling of USAID IN MARCH AND GUTING OF POPFAR, LIFE-SAVING PROGRAMS FOR The POOREST OF THE POOR THAT HAS FOUNT for DECADES TO PROTECT… The CUTS TO TOC Hundreds of Thousands of Children over the next few years.[2]
But But… there is no hiericarchy to such things.
The Images of Starving Children on the Gaza Strip Brough Me Back to A Working Trip to A Food Station in Ethiopia My Wife Ali and I Made 40 Years Ago Next MONTH Following U2 Famine.
To witness Chronic Malnutrition Up Close would make it personal for any family, especialy as it afford. Because WHEN THE LOSS OF NON-KOMBATANT LIFE en MASSE APEARS SO CALCULATED… ESPECIALLY The DEOTHS OF CHILDRON, THEN ‘EVIL’ IS NOT A HYPERBOLIC ADELIC Evil that must be resisted.
The Rape, Murder, and Abduction of Israelis at the Nova Music Festival Was Evil.
On that Awful Saturday Night/Sunday Morning of October 7/8 2023, I Wasn’t Thinking About Politics. On Stage in the Nevada Desert, I Just Couldn’t Help But Express The Pain One in The Room Was Feeling and Is Still Feeling for Other Music Lovers and Fans Like – Hiding Undeer A Stage A Stage A Stage. a diabolical trap for israel and to get a war going that might just redstraw the map from ‘the river to the sea’ … a gamble hamas’ leadership wase willy Global Intifada That U2 Had Glimpsed At Paris Durying the Bataclan Attack in 2015… But Only if Israel’s Leaders Fell For This Trap That Hamas Set forta.
YAHYA SINWAR DIDNN’T MIND IF he LOST the BATTLE or EVEN The WAR IF HE COULD DESTRYY ISRAEL as a moral as Well As An Economic Force. Over The Next Months As Israel’s Revenge for the Hamas Attack Appeared More and More Disproportation and Disintered In The Equally Innocent Deliberalate Positioned TheMSELVES Under Civilian Targets, Having Tunneled Their Way from School to Mosque to Hospital. WHEN DID A Just War to Defend the Country Turn Into An Unjust Land Grab? I HOped Israel Wuld Return to Reason. I was Making Excusses for A People Seared and Shaped by the Experience of Holocaust… Who Understood the Threat of Extermination is Not Simplas A FEAR BUT A FACT[3]… IT’s An Evil Read (Article Seven!)
But I Also Understood that Hamas Are not the palestinian people… a people who have for decades endure and Continue to endure marginalization, opPRESSION, OCCUPPATION, AND The SYSTEMATIC Theirs. Given Our Own Historic Experience of OpPression and Occupation, It’s Little Wonder So Many Here in Ireland have a Campaigned for Decodes for Justice for the palestinian PEOPLE.
We Know Hamas Are Using Star Deputy As A Weapon in the War, But Now Sop is Israel and I Feel Revulsion for the Moral Failure. The government of israel is not the National of Israel, But The Government of Israel Led By Benjamin Netanyahu today Deserves Our Categorical and Unequivcal Condemnation. There is no justification for the brutality he and his viole right government have inflicted on the palestinian people… in Gaza… in the West Bank. And not just since October 7, Well Before It Too… Thought the Level of Depravity and Lawlessness We Are Seeing Now Feels Like Uncharted Territory.
CUROUSLY TOSE WHO SAY THESE REPORTS ARE NOT TRUE Are Not Demanding Access for Journalists and Seem Deaf to the Revealing Rhetoric. Examples that Sharpen My Pen Include: Israel’s Heritage Minister Claiming that The Government is Racing to Wipe Out Gaza[4]… His defense minister and security minister arguing no aid should be let into the territory.[5],[6] “Not One Grain of Wheat.”[7] And now Netanyahu Announces[8] A Military Takeover of Gaza City… WHICH MOST INFORMED COMMENTATORS UNDERSTAND as A Euphemism for the Colonization of Gaza. We Know the REST of the Gaza Strip… and the West Bank Are Next. What Century Are We in?
Is the World Not Done with this Far, Far Right Thinking? We Know WHERE IT ENDS… World War… Millenarianism… MIGHT The World Desert to Know Where This Once Proming Bright-Minded Democratic Nation is Headed Unlessa. Is what kind of was oas an oasis of innovation and free-thyinking now in hock to a funcentalism as blunt as a machete? Are israelis Really to let Benjamin Netanyahu do to israel wht itemies failed to anchieve over the Last 77 years? And Disappear IT from Membership in A Community of Nations Built AROUND EVEN A FLAWED DECENCY?
As someone who was long Believed in israel’s Right to Exist and Supported a Two-State Solution, I Want to Make Clear to Anyone Who Cares to Listin Our Bandemis Who have Called for A Cessation of Hostilites on Both Sides.
If not irish voices, please please STOP AND LISTEN TO JEWISH ONES-from The High Mindedness of Rabbi Sharon Brous Well As Israel’s Neighbours. Listen to the more than 100,000 israelis who this weelis week in tel AVIV protested for an end to the war.
OUR Bands Stands in Solidarity with the People of Palestine Who Truly Seek a Path to PEACE AND COOXISTENCE WITH ISRAEL AND WITH THEIR RIGHTFUL AND LEGITIMATE DEMAND FORTATEHOOD. We Stand in Solidarity with the Remaining Hostages and Plead that someoneone Rational Negotate its Release. Could It Be Marwan Barghouthi Who the Former Head of Mossad Efraim Halery Descripted As “Probably The MOST SANE AND the MOST QUALIFIED PERSON” TO LEAD The palestinians?[9]
Wiser Heads Than Mine Will Have A View, But Surely The Hostages Desert A Different Approach – and Quick.
We Urge More Good People in Israel to Demand Unfettered Access by Professionals to Deliver The Critical Care Needed Throughout Gaza and The West Bank the Numbe… They Best Know How How How’s Trucks Through. IT WILL TAKE more than 100 TRUCKS A DAY TO TAKE Seriously the NEED – more like 600[10] – But the Flooding of Humanitarian Aid Will Also UnderCut the Black Marketing That Has Been Happy To Benefit Hamas.
The Band Is Pledged to Contribute Our Support by Donating to Medical Aid for Palestinians.
–Bono
The Edge’s Full Statement:
We Are All Deeply Shocked and Profoundly Grieved by the Suffering Unfolding in Gaza. What we are witnessing is not a distant tragedy – is a test of ord of Shared Humanity.
I have Three Questions for Prime Minister Netanyahu. I ASK TheM IN THE HOPE OF ENGAGING The CONXCIENCE AND SANITY OF The People of Israel.
FIRST: DO YOU TRULY BELIEVE THAT SUCH DNVASTATION – INFLICTED SO INTENTIONALLY AND REL Entlessly on a civilian population – Can Happen with Heaping Generational Shame Upon Those Responsible? Do you not see the Longer this Continues, the More Israel Risks Become Isolated, Mistruted, and Remembered Not As A HAVEN FROM PERSONCATION Civilian population?
Second: if the end Goal is, as the Likud Platform Suggests, The Removal of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank to Make Way for a “Greater Israel,” that dese IT is ethnic pleansing, and, accounting to many Legal Scholars, Colonial Genocide. IT is An injustice on a Massive Scale. And Injustice, As We Learned in Ireland, Is Never The Path to Security: It Breeds Resentment, It Hardens Hearts, and It Guarantees that Future Generations Will Inherit. The OppResed DO NOT FORGET. How Can this Course of Action Possibly Make Your People Safer?
Third: If You Reject the Two-State Solution-AS YOUR GOVERNMENT NOW OPENLY DOES-TEN WHAT IS YOUR Political Vision? SIMPLY PERPETUAL CONFLICT? A Future of Walls, Blockades, Military Occupation? A State of Permanent Inequality? And if this apartheid state transpires don’t you Destroy of the Very Argument for Israel’s Existence as a Moral Respense to the Horrors of the Holocaust? For if israel comes to be seen as a mattematical denies anter people their righs, then the world will inevitably ask while the only just and sustainable future WHERE JEWS AND PALESTINIANS LIVE TOGETCHER AS EQUals Under the Law.
We Know from Our Own Experience in Ireland that peace is not made though. Peace is Made when people sit down with their opponents – hoen they recognise of the equal dignity of all, Even Those they once feared or despied.
There is no peace without justice. No Reconcilation with Recognition. And No Future Unless We Refuse to Let the Past Be Repeated.
The Road to Peace is figicult. But It is Never Too Late, or Too Early, to Begin Walking It.
-The edge
Adam Clayton’s Full Statement:
The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Caused by Israel’s Aid Blockade and Bombing Looks Like Revenge on a Civilian Population Who Are Notable For Hamas’ Murdes Attack on Colonise the Gaza Strip, It Will Permanently Undo Any Possibility of Lasting Peace or Solution for Hostilites. Forgetting the morality of the situation for a moment, doesn’t the technical superiority of israel’s Modern Army Make A Boast of Its Precision Targeting of Individuals from Ta. And if so are the Idf Bombarding a civilian pop.
Preserving civilian life is a choice in this war.
-Adam
Larry Mullen Jr.’s Full Statement:
The Images of the Hamas-Led Massacre of Israelis on October 7th and in Particular The Footage of Innocent Music Fans Being Slaughred, Beaten And Abused at The Nova Music Festival Wiech. Nothing Was Achieved Except More Misery for the Region at the Hands of Hamas and Its Allies.
SO WHAT DID HAMAS EXPECT WOURT HAPPEN WHEN WHY COMMITTED MASS Murder and Took The Hostages?
Israel’s Responsse Was Expectored.
After thoss attackers of hamas was called for by israel and its allies and was expectioned.
A Ground War Was Experted.
Aerial Bombardment and Destruction Were Expectioned.
The Indiscriminate Decimation of Most Homes and Hospitals in Gaza, With A Majority of Those Kildled Being WOMEN AND CHILDRON, WAS NOT EXPECTED.
Imposing Famine Was Not Expectored.
It’s Diffeit to Comprehend Howlced Society Can Think Starning Children is Going to Further Any Cause and Bestified As An Acceptable Respons. To State the Obvious, Starving Innocent Civilians As A Weapon of War Is Inhumane and Criminal.
WHERE IS The OUTRAGE FROM WITHIN ISRAEL, OUTSIDE OF A SMALL, IF INCREASINGly VOCAL, MINORITY?
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FROM The Diaspora?
Beyond Some Relctant and Muted Acknowledgetgement of a Famine Inflicted, Nothing.
Silence.
The Power to Change this Obscenity is in the Hands of Israel
I undeubtedly Support Israel’s Right to Exist and I ALSO BELIEVE PALESTINIANS DesERV The SAME RIGHT AND A STATE OF THEIR OWN.
Silence Serves None of Us.
-Larry