Sep 27 2008
McCartney promises Israel gig will go on
A concert to honour Israel’s 60th anniversary will go ahead, Paul McCartney has promised.
His pledge in The Guardian that the show will go on comes despite threats made by militant Islamic activist Omar Bakri Muhammad.
“If he values his life Mr. McCartney must not come to Israel. He will not be safe there. The sacrifice operatives will be waiting for him,” Bakri said in an interview with The Sunday Express.
This weekend, McCartney told Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth: “I do what I think and I have many friends who support Israel.”
The Tel Aviv event on September 25 will be the first time McCartney has played in the country after a planned gig by The Beatles in 1965 was cancelled. Some politicians at the time feared the performance “might corrupt the minds of the Israeli youth”.
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