My Oh My

Kind of sucks to be Ed Sheeran right about now. 

....and I kind of don't care. 

One, I'm sure I've heard a song of his, but couldn't tell you what it was titled or could identify one if my life depended on it. He reaped what he sowed. 

Mind you - he's blaming the cancelling of Macklemore on the promoter, and while that might be true, had he stepped up the promoter and fucking sex trafficker wanna be, Robert Kraft, would have backed down. 

OR, Ed could have picked up his marbles and told Kraft to go fuck himself.   .....but he didn't. 

.....and then Sheeran's own band quit and all his opening acts did the same. 

Again, don't know his music, but him alone there with a guitar and a stadium full of people seems like an underwhelming performance. 

And all because Macklemore supports a free Palestine. 

That's it. 

He did not say he supported Hamas. He did not say anything antisemitic - at least that I have heard. 

I truly don't get this and I've said it before.  You can be pro-Palestine and anti-Hamas.  You can be pro-Israel and anti-Netenyahu.  

Zionist / Zionism is also tossed around a lot. There are enough branches of that as their political parties in Israel. 

Zionism is political and ideological movement advocating for the self-determination and existence of a sovereign Jewish state in Israel. Some factions welcome and honor a two-state system. Some would like to take back all of the land. 

To lump Zionists into a single pot is exactly what just about everyone is doing with Palestine, Israel and Jews.  ....and you can't. People and beliefs don't fit neatly into one bucket. That's not how it works. And this is where the line gets very blurry on antisemitism. 

I believe both Israel and Palestine have a right to exist. And except for hundreds of years of being butt-hurt on both fronts, why they can't do it side by side. 

Yes, I'm a dreamer. 

What Palestine should be pissed about is that we, the US, funds Israel and their war effort. We have taken sides - if nothing else financially, which equals casualties.   ....and we are about to provide them 60,000 (!!!!) MORE 1-ton bombs. 

Without our funding and weapons, Palestine and Israel would almost have to get along. Neither would have the resources to actually fight. 

But anyway - Sheeran could have done something good with all of this. Instead, he said nothing at all, except to call Israel - Palestine a "conflict". 

Honey, a conflict is what your band had with you before they walked out. That he couldn't stand up to a promoter who would have lost everything if he said he won't go on, it would have been a blip in the news paper. 

The only great thing about it is - Kraft is back to being tied to Jeffrey Epstein in the news. Silver lining people........silver lining. 

Song by: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis