This week the Ivor Novello in London, focused on the best song authors, and leaving among other winners Charli XCX have been delivered. U2 have received an honorary award, Fellowship of the Ivors Academy, and Bono has had a few words about what is happening in Gaza.
Having a popular feeling in a conflict that only in the last year and a half has left more than 50,000 dead in the Gaza Strip, has asked Hamas to free the hostages; And he has also asked Israel “to release from Netanyahu.” The U2 leader has loaded against the “Fundamentals of the extreme right” Israeli.
In his speech he referred to his classic ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, which appealed to peace in Northern Ireland: «He used to present this song saying that it was not a rebel song. It was, because believing in the possibilities of peace, then and now, it was and is a rebel act; And some would say ridiculous. Believing that peace was attainable between his country and ours, between our country and himself, was a ridiculous idea, because peace creates possibilities in the most intractable situations and God knows that right now there are a few.
He continued: «Hamas, frees the hostages, stop the war. Israel, releases from Benjamín Netanyahu and from the extreme right -wing fundamentalists that twist your sacred texts. All of you, protect our cooperators: they are the best of us ».
And it ended: «God, you must be so tired of us, the children of Abraham, in the rubble of our certainties. Children, in the rubble of our revenge. God, forgive us ».
