Pink Floyd's Roger Waters in West Bank

Описание: (2 Jun 2009) SHOTLIST
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Bethlehem, West Bank - 2 June 2009
1. Wide shot of Roger Waters pink Floyd walking near West Bank barrier in Bethlehem
2. Various Waters walking with companion Allegra near the wall
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Waters, recording artist:
"It's actually very, pretty depressing, coming back here three years later and seeing that the political situation has changed very little. There are more settlements, there has been more grabbing of land, and it's actually quite depressing to witness. When you stand in front of an edifice like this, whether it's here or outside a township in South Africa, or in the Warsaw ghetto during the second world war or in Berlin in the '60s and '70s, there's something you know instinctively, this is wrong. This is a bad thing. This is wrong. This is not helping anybody, this thing"
4. Wide shot Roger Waters in front of wall
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Waters, recording artist:
"This is not here to stop Israelis being blown up on buses. It is here for other reasons. But it is not here for that reason. If it was here for that, if that's what the reason for this wall was, what's it doing in the occupied territories, surrounding settlements and cutting farmers off from their olive trees and so on and so forth. You could possibly make a case, if you felt that's the way you wanted to live your life building for a wall around your country."
6. Wide shot Roger Waters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Waters, recording artist, on idea of holding concert near the west bank barrier:
"If they take this thing down, I would be delighted to come and do a concert here. In fact I yeah would insist on it.''
8. Wide shot Waters drinking water
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Roger Waters, recording artist:
"I'm toying with the idea of going to Ramallah and do something there. I don't know when yet, but I would really to be in Palestine we have been all over the West Bank in this trip, and that's been a real eye-opener as well.''
11. Various, Waters in front of wall, with press
12. Wide shot Waters poses for photograph
STORYLINE
ROGER WATERS IN THE WEST BANK
He rules out a Pink Floyd reunion, but the legendary rock band's co-founder, Roger Waters, says he'd give a concert in a flash if Israel's West Bank wall is taken down.
Waters made the promise Tuesday (02 JUNE 2009) during a visit to a Palestinian refugee camp that is hemmed in by the separation barrier's tall slabs of cement.
The 65-year-old co-wrote Pink Floyd's iconic 'The Wall' album and performed music from it in 1990 at the site where the Berlin Wall once ran.
Waters had harsh words for Israel's barrier, which Israel says was built as a defence against Palestinian militants.
The musician spoke about how it made him feel:
"It's actually very, pretty depressing, coming back here three years later and seeing that the political situation has changed very little. There are more settlements, there has been more grabbing of land, and it's actually quite depressing to witness. When you stand in front of an edifice like this, whether it's here or outside a township in South Africa, or in the Warsaw ghetto during the second world war or in Berlin in the '60s and '70s, there's something you know instinctively, this is wrong. This is a bad thing. This is wrong. This is not helping anybody, this thing"

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