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| By Israel Insider staff and partners April 17, 2006 |
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"Pink Floyd" co-founder Roger Waters is moving his June concert in Israel from a Tel Aviv park laid out for such events to a chickpea field next to a joint Jewish-Arab village because of Palestinian protests, Channel 2 TV reported Sunday.
Waters, bass player and vocalist with the iconic rock group from its birth in the 1960s until its members drifted apart two decades later, has lent his support to a pro-Palestinian movement urging removal of a security barrier Israel is building along the West Bank. Israel says the security fence is necessary to keep suicide bombers out of the country, but Palestinians reject it as a land grab.
The concert was originally set for the Yarkon Park, scene of several such appearances every year, where up to 200,000 people sit on the grass.
Instead, organizers will uproot a chickpea field at Neve Shalom at a cost of millions of shekels, the TV report said, to accommodate Waters' request.
Jewish and Arab families live together at Neve Shalom, about halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in Israel's coastal plain. The village is supposed to be an example of coexistence, but in recent years, coinciding with the latest round of Palestinian-Israeli violence, tensions have been evident there.
The TV report showed the mayor of Neve Shalom, Rayak Rizik, walking through the doomed chickpea field while welcoming Waters' planned performance there. The report said about 50,000 people were expected to attend.
AP contributed to this report.
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