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"to an israeli interviewer"
You have called me today to request an interview for an Israeli newspaper. Here is my answer.

you want to interview me about the music we are keeping going in beirut today.

in other times, i would have liked to be interviewed by an israeli newspaper to talk about my music and my drawings.

i would have probably said for a start that i never imagined the israeli people like green people with antennas.

i would have talked about the free jazz and the improvised and experimental music scene in lebanon. i would have said that beirut is most probably the closest city in the world to tel aviv and that the musicians and artists of both cities have a lot in common. at least the weather, not to speak about the mediterranean way of life and the high concentration of intellectuals, artists, thinkers and free men in both cities.

today that i have the occasion to say whatever i want, i do not wish to do so.

today, instead of playing music with my friends musicians in Beirut and in the whole world, i am playing with the israeli air force. and this, i do not accept.

today, i sadly do not feel we have the same weather anymore. beirut is getting hotter every day. and this, i do not accept.

today, i am beginning to believe that there is not so much free men in israel.

i tend to think more and more that the majority of the israelis are really green with antennas on their heads. and this, you shouldn't accept.

today, i do not wish to speak anymore.

thank you for listening to this “nothing” i ended up by saying.

posted by mazen