Bono from the band U2. Credit Line: Capital Pictures / Film Stills / Profimedia
Present at the ceremony of awarding the composition prizes to receive the Fellowship of the ivors Academy, the highest distinction of the institution, Bono, the soloist of the U2 band, criticized Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu and “Extreme-right fundamentalists” Israeli, writes News.ro.
Bono received the prize and then played an acoustic variant of the song “Sunday Bloody Sunday”.
“I used to present the next song by saying that it is not a rebellious song. This is because believing in the possibility of peace was then, and it is now, an act of rebellion; and some would say that a ridiculous one,” he said after the play.
He also said: “To believe that peace can be obtained between your country and ours, between our country and itself was a ridiculous idea, because peace creates possibilities in the most difficult situations and God knows that there are some of them.”
“Hamas, released the hostages, stop the war. Israel, get rid of Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right fundamentalists who twist your sacred texts,” the U2 star added.
At the same time. Bono appealed to the protection of humanitarian workers: “The best of us. Lord, you have to be so tired of us, Abraham's children, in the rubble of our certainties.
The “Sunday Bloody Sunday” was launched in 1983 and has the theme of the 1972 massacre in which the British army shot and killed 14 unarmed protesters, the largest number of dead by shooting.
