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Barenboim on Al-Jazeera: You can be a politician or a musician, not both.

February 5, 2013 by Norman Lebrecht

Watch here. It’s one of his most candid interviews about Israel and the Palestinians.

02/5/13 6:24 PM | filed under: main |

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another orchestra musician says:

February 5, 2013 at 7:56 pm

I think Mr. Barenboim gets it wonderfully right.
Abigail Clifford says:

February 5, 2013 at 8:14 pm

Israel has remained a ghetto. What is the difference between the Warsaw ghetto and Israel?” He believes that the mentality is the same. In his opinion, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is very asymmetrical because one is ‘occupied’ and the other the ‘occupier’

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