Another Musical Boycott by Another Spoiled Liberal Hypocrite

Got my tix to Elton John in Tel Aviv yesterday (Thanks JJ)! Less than a month to go until showtime.

Some interesting Elton quotes from a recent interview he did:

It's all or nothing when it comes to drugs.
"For some people a gram of cocaine can last a month. Not me. I have to do the lot, and then I want more. At the end of the day, all it led to was heartache."

His take on Christianity.
"I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead."

As a gay man, Elton John has no illusions about muslim society in the way (apparently) shills like Santana and Elvis Costello - the latest all-knowing musician to cancel his gigs here for political reasons - do. Elton was recently banned from playing in Egypt because he's openly gay. As Tom Gross points out in the linked piece above, where were Elton's entertainer friends to defend him when he was banned from performing in a muslim country simply for being gay?

The defeaning silence of the very people who purport to criticize Israel on the grounds of non-discrimination and self-determination for the Palestinians says all you need to know about the true nature of their moral character.