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    <title>Appeal to Leonard Cohen not to perform in Israel Petition: Signature List Feed</title>
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      <title>MS Judy olsen [Signature #100]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MS Judy olsen, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom<p>Sorry I did not see this before the concert but wanted to express my dismay at the concert going ahead. Been a Cohen fan for something like 40 years.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:52:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Ole Jakob Ryther [Signature #99]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Ole Jakob Ryther, Norway]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:49:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Gulam Chowdhury [Signature #98]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:06:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Peter Lizon [Signature #97]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Peter Lizon, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:22:35 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. David Ledermann [Signature #96]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. David Ledermann, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States of America<p>A long-time lover of your music humbly asks this sacrifice for the cause of justice and humanity.  &quot;I can&#039;t run no more<br />
with that lawless crowd<br />
while the killers in high places<br />
say their prayers out loud.<br />
But they&#039;ve summoned, they&#039;ve summoned up<br />
a thundercloud<br />
and they&#039;re going to hear from me.&quot;</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:40:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Oliver Hobson [Signature #95]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Oliver Hobson, Ontario, Canada<p>Sad news indeed.  We&#039;re big Cohen fans and it&#039;s going to hurt pulling him from the record collection.  It&#039;s not as bad as having ones parents murdered by the IDF or being permanently disfigured with phosphorus burns though.  Please  change your mind Leonard.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:36:08 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Robert Brookes [Signature #94]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Robert Brookes, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom<p>Don&#039;t do it Leonard for the sake of all in Palestine and Israel. Please look at what Israel has done and will continue to do unless action  preferably non violent pressures  them to change and seek to live peacefully in harmony with their neighbouring countries..</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:40:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Miriam Cotton [Signature #93]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Miriam Cotton, Clonakilty, Ireland<p>As a long-time admirer of Leonard Cohen and a daily listener to the CD of his fantastic London concert in 2008, I&#039;m nevertheless deeply saddened that the writer of those wonderful songs doesn&#039;t see how profoundly inhumane it is for him to, in effect, step over the dead bodies of the people of Gaza and Palestine. Forget your perfect offering, Leonard, and do whatever you can to send the right signal to the Israeli government.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Stephen Davis [Signature #92]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Stephen Davis, United Kingdom<p>It&#039;s a shame Leanord Cohen cannot see sense on this matter.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:38:31 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Frezza Stefano [Signature #91]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Frezza Stefano, L&#039;Aquila, Italy]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:18:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Sandy Sirah [Signature #90]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:45:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms ruth hoult [Signature #89]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms ruth hoult<p>&quot;And will my people build a new Dachau<br />
And call it love,<br />
Security,<br />
Jewish culture<br />
For dark-eyed children<br />
Burning in the stars&quot;</p>

<p>Dear Mr. Cohen,</p>

<p>You wrote these words - how can you possibly conceive of performing in Israel? Please examine your conscience and cancel your concert.</p>

<p>Thank you,<br />
Ruth Hoult</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Benny Zable [Signature #88]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Benny Zable, Warners Bay, NSW, Australia<p>If you have a chance read my story on FACEBOOK of my ONE LOVE-PALESRAEL journey. Contact me if you are interested in joining me next year to do another action to paint mural/s this time  on the Gaza Separation Wall.<br />
Yours Benny Zable<br />
For healing onself one another, the Earth</p>

<p>MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Joanne Finnegan [Signature #87]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Joanne Finnegan, Dublin<p>.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 2 Aug 2009 05:54:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Ed Rukab [Signature #86]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Ed Rukab<p>Mr Cohen, I love your music and your profound lyrics, but you should not support Israel&#039;s aparthied and inhumane treatment of ethnic Palestinians. Don&#039;t let your Judism compromise your humanism. I have many of your songs on tape and would like to continue to admire and enjoy your songs; but, &#039;I need you, I don&#039;t need you&#039;.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>micheline healy [Signature #85]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:37:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Ntodd Pritsky [Signature #84]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Ntodd Pritsky, Fletcher, VT, United States of America<p>Time to stop playing Sun City, if you catch the drift.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:51:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Sacha Hawes [Signature #83]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:52:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr John Scott [Signature #82]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:59:59 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Deirdre Mulrooney [Signature #81]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Deirdre Mulrooney, Dublin, Ireland, Ireland]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2009 03:44:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. John Byrne [Signature #80]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. John Byrne, Graceville, Queensland, Australia<p>You said you tried in your way to be free... how can you let us hope to be free ourselves when by playing in Israel you are supporting a racist state that cripples the freedom of the Palestinian people. To think that I used to enjoy your music sickens me.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:48:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Kate Miric [Signature #79]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kate Miric, United States of America<p>Leonard,<br />
In the &quot;mysterious imprecision&quot; in the genre of your self-portraits, your art, your words and presence are extremely influential and symbolic and myself and apologists of every creed will continue to paint you as you are not, not for lack of trying. Help us out here to understand the statement you are making or not making (please).</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Frank O'Neill [Signature #78]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Frank O&#039;Neill, Ireland<p>I am signing petition</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:56:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #77]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, FL, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:42:57 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Alistair Hulett [Signature #76]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Alistair Hulett, United Kingdom<p>By agreeing to perform in Israel in the present circumstances, an artist is wittingly or otherwise consenting to the ongoing genocidal treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli government and armed forces. As a long time fan of Leonard Cohen&#039;s work, I ask him sincerely and respectfully not to legitimize the human rights abuses of apartheid state of Israel in this way.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Jo Mettam [Signature #75]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Jo Mettam, Australia<p>&quot;... On the other hand, citizens in this country, especially famous ones, who continue to broadcast, quite often out of ignorance or out of more sinister reasons, the fable of Israel as a cultured Western society or as the &quot;only democracy in the Middle East&quot; are not only wrong factually. They provide immunity for one of the greatest atrocities in our time.&quot; Ilan Pappe<br />
Please reconsider.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Moun Idriss [Signature #74]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:12:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Mo Mab [Signature #73]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Mo Mab, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:45:38 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Sarah Giles [Signature #72]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Sarah Giles, Australia<p>Israel is an apartheid country, just as South Africa was- even worse really because South Africa never bombed the bantustans with warplanes. Israel deserves the same international cultural, academic and trade boycott as the world mobilised against the racist state in South Africa. Especially after the Gaza war when much more of the world now sees Israel for what it is.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss mercedes sauvageau, Montreal, QC, Canada<p>Plus de fronti&egrave;re ,Plus de guerre ,c&#039;est stupide de se battre pour un lot de terrain!!!<br />
Merc&eacute;d&egrave;s Ra&eacute;lienne</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Ray Benton [Signature #70]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Ray Benton, Pineville, Louisiana, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:07:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Simon David [Signature #69]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:48:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:22:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Gianluca Di Biasi [Signature #66]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gianluca Di Biasi, Turin, Italy]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:02:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>M Jacques Raelian [Signature #65]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[M Jacques Raelian<p>The goal is to find Israelis and Palestinian Gandhis</p>

<p>1) To inform them about our meditation for peace www.isralestinian-gandhis.org</p>

<p>2) To build up two political parties www.israeli-gandhis.org and www.palestinian-gandhis.org</p>

<p>The Isralestinian Gandhis will be a Palestinians and IsRaelis who want to work together mainly for peace. These people should do it on voluntary bases. I want to build up a group of people who will work on the Internet contacting</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Raelian Elvis Anchay [Signature #64]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Raelian Elvis Anchay, Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru<p>We the undersigned call on Leonard Cohen to cancel his proposed concert in Israel in acknowledgment of the distress caused by that country&#039;s insurgence into the West Bank and Gaza, and its oppression of the Palestinian people.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Jean Cyr Raelian [Signature #63]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jean Cyr Raelian, Montreal, QC, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:46:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Deborah Agre [Signature #62]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Deborah Agre, United States of America]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:23:56 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Jon Ellis [Signature #61]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jon Ellis, Southampton, United Kingdom<p>Leonard,<br />
An old afficionado of your music asks you not to play in Israel. Please cancel your show there in order to show the Israeli state that it is time to make a just peace with Palestine. When Israel / Palestine is united as one nation of equal citizens I will go to your show in undivided Jerusalem. Thanks for your time.<br />
Jon.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Todd Barthell [Signature #60]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Todd Barthell, San Francisco, CA, United States of America<p>Mr. Cohen,<br />
I have so much respect for your work, but there is great wrong being done in Israel today and you are in a unique position to affect positive change there!<br />
Boycott, divestment and sanctions can ultimately help return Israel to the right side of history.</p>

<p>Respectfully,<br />
Todd Barthell</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Penelope Martinou [Signature #59]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Penelope Martinou, Greece]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:09:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Deena Omar [Signature #58]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:00:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Michael Kalmanovitz [Signature #57]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Michael Kalmanovitz, London, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:28:39 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Victor Morhac [Signature #56]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Victor Morhac<p>The state of Israel has today so very aggressive policy towards Palestinian people, that also Jewish peaceful and intelligent individuals as well as organizations are protesting and are calling for the disarmament in Israel!LOVE IS THE ONLY ANSWER to violence!Violence breeds only violence!Love and forgiveness brings peace! With this petition we ask all Jews worldwide to boycott Israel as well as all artists to stop concerting there to raise up planetary consciousness about the problem. rael org</p>]]></description>
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      <title>MS ELIZABETH MURRAY [Signature #55]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MS ELIZABETH MURRAY, CORBY, NORTHANTS, United Kingdom<p>SHOW ISRAEL THEY CANNOT CONTINUE WITH THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT PEOPLE. PLEASE POSTPONE YOUR TOUR AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:25:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Miranda Pennell [Signature #53]</title>
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      <title>Ms Ruth Tenne [Signature #48]</title>
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      <title>mrs caroline oreilly [Signature #47]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs caroline oreilly, brighton, east sussex, United Kingdom<p>I have been a fan for decades. Please Mr Cohen do not go to Israel. I have experienced at first hand the brutality of the Israeli regime.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Erick Heroux, EUGENE, OR, United States of America<p>Israel is a democracy.  Let them dwell on the consequences of their choice for Apartheid.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, United Kingdom<p>I have already written to your agent asking you not to perform in Israel. PLEASE do not go - remember the Palestinians.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[David Llewellyn Smith, Melrose, Roxburghshire, United Kingdom<p>Dear Leonard,<br />
Please consider cancelling your forthcoming concert in Israel as a gesture  both of support to the Palestian victims (men, women and children) and survivors of the indiscriminate IDF violence in Gaza recently; and also of condemnation of the policies of the Israeli government towards the Palestinians.</p>]]></description>
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We really love you to bits here in Finland. _Please_ do reconsider your decision on playing Israel right now.<br />
Love,<br />
a friend<br />
&#039;Friends don&#039;t let friends ethnically cleanse.&#039;</p>]]></description>
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