'Israeli' jazz star praises Yasir Arafat

An interesting Aljazeera interview - I particularly like the quote about the smell of falafel... a good reason to think ich bin ein palestinian... or philistine, to coin a more biblical way of speaking...

Aljazeera.Net - 'Israeli' jazz star praises Yasir Arafat

"Let me make it clear, I am not an Israeli. I was born in Israel, for the first 22 years of my life I thought of myself as an Israeli. But when I realised what Israel was all about, I stopped regarding myself as an Israeli. I demand not to be seen as one. I am a Hebrew-speaking Palestinian," he says.

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Atzmon has just released his fourth album, is published in 15 languages, banned in Israel and remains an ardent anti-Zionist.

"For me it is clear that Zionism is a racist, nationalist and a fundamentally religious perception, and I don't want to live in a racist set-up," he says.

"Palestine belongs to the Palestinian people"

"Everything I liked about this place (Israel) the smell of it, the authenticity of it, the food, hummus, the falafel, didn't belong to Jewish nationalism it belonged to the Palestinian people."

Atzmon says the only solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a single state with two people living side by side.

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Gilad Atzmon's website