This is funny. Energetic Israel booster Avi Mayer, reveling in the musical acts that are ignoring boycott calls and playing Israel this summer, picked up a Mick Jagger tweet before the Rolling Stones gig the other day.
Fantastic:
@MickJagger tweets a photo from Jerusalem and thanks Israel for welcoming the@RollingStones — in Hebrew! pic.twitter.com/OD7S2Cr3v4
Scott Roth landed on this:
Yeah, Mick Jagger speaks Hebrew.
Here’s Jagger’s tweet:
תודה לכולם בישראל על קבלת פנים נפלאה. היתה
הופעה אדירה ונזכור אותה תמיד.
My Hebrew’s a little rusty, but I think that translates as:
I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you,Hope you guess my name.
PS This website has a different translation. “Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful reception. It was a great concert and we will always remember it.”
I had to run the text through a translator to know Phil was joking. Phil’s is more apropo for the situation.
Your Hebrew is better than you think, Phil. That’s one hell of a translation.
If memory serves, Jagger’s occupation before he started selling his frantic version of the Beatles and his lips and swiveling hips was–he was an accountant. I think his history shows he always puts his fingers to the winds, decides what is prevailing, political status quo opinion trendy, and signs on. He did this by backing BDS against apartheid S Africa, and by (initially) backing Bush Jr’s war attack on Iraq in partnership with Tony Blair. After it was determined Saddam had no WMD or connection with Iranian terrorists, he changed his mind. Jagger’s current activity has to do with his aging ego and his best guess at what is the current status quo, all the while trying to maintain his aging image as a rebel against the status quo. He’s turned himself into a bad joke for any aware human.
Oh wow!
Is that a quenelle gesture Mick?
The Stones playing in Israel doesn’t imply that they agree with Israeli policies or actions, any more than playing in the US means that they condone American foreign policy, or economic policy . And that’s true in regard to any place they perform and in regard to all the musicians and artists who perform here.
You don’t have to “Paint it Black”.