U2’s Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Muller Jr. Release Statements on Israel and Gaza

U2’s Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Muller Jr. Release Statements on Israel and Gaza

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…

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#‘Happy Holidays’ Director Scandar Copti on Finding Love Across the Israeli, Palestinian Divide

#‘Happy Holidays’ Director Scandar Copti on Finding Love Across the Israeli, Palestinian Divide

Scandar Copti doesn’t like polemics. In his Oscar-nominated debut Ajami (2009), Copti, a Palestinian director and Israeli citizen, avoided easy answers, and obvious finger-pointing, to tell a story of crime and corruption, family belonging, and political divisions set in his hometown of Jaffa, a mostly Arab city just south of Tel Aviv. Co-directed with Jewish…

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#Iran’s day of reckoning is nearing

#Iran’s day of reckoning is nearing

Iran has been playing a dangerous game of kinetic brinkmanship with the United States since the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. Beginning with the Iran hostage crisis, wherein 52 American diplomats were held for 444 days in Tehran, it has evolved into the funding of Hamas, Hezbollah and other militia and terrorist groups sponsored by…

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