Waters has replied that he ‘refutes entirely’ the ‘incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments’ made by Polly Samson, lyricist and wife of guitarist Dave Gilmour
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Hmmm. Its obvious that Waters is a putin puppet and a total arsehole.. But he is on the money with regards to israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
All decent people condemn the Israeli govt for their murders. Doesnt make them anti semites. Still she would know him better than most and maybe he is an snti semite like American right wing loons..
He is a public school privileged twat after all.
Calling Polly Samson a "Lyricist" is like calling Jeffrey Dahmner a chef. She only wrote lyrics for one album, and that was
the Division Bell, which was not exactly their best work.
As a long time fan of Pink Floyd in general and Roger Waters (The real genius behind their music), some thoughts.
Waters' view on world politics was shaped by the fact that when he was an infant, his father was killed in the Battle of Anzio in World War II. So, yes, Roger is always going to be anti-war. Anti-War themes are part of his work, in
The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon and the criminally underrated
The Final Cut. That's his brand.
His criticism of Israel is valid. The Zionists are pretty much like abused children who have gotten big enough to beat up on someone else. The only reason why the world tolerates apartheid in Israel is because we all still feel really bad about the Holocaust. Which we should. But the Palestinians didn't perpetrate the holocaust and shouldn't be penalized for it. Sadly, it has become a kneejerk reaction to scream "anti-Semite" whenever Israel is criticized, ignoring the fact that the Arabs/Palestinians are also a Semitic people.
On his criticism of the Ukraine war, that's a bit more complex. His bandmates recently recorded a song with a Ukrainian artist, but Waters have been pretty adamant that this war could and SHOULD have been avoided. The west does deserve some of the blame here. There was an agreement called the Minsk accords that would have created a mechanism for Ethnic Russians in the Donbass. The Ukraine ignored that framework, which is part of the reason why Putin invaded.
All of that, however, doesn't justify Putin invading. Hitler had a valid complaint about the Danzig corridor, but that didn't justify WWII, either.