[While world artists from Elvis Costello to Eurethmics are culturally boycotting Israel due to its racist , colonial policies , occupation and war crimes, The Palestinian National Orchestra is normalizing with the apartheid state under the pseudo slogan "Today an orchestra, tomorrow a state."]
HAIFA, Israel (AFP) -- The Palestine National Orchestra has made its debut in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Israeli city of Haifa under the banner of "Today an orchestra, tomorrow a state."
The 40-member orchestra launched its inaugural tour on Friday in the West Bank city of Ramallah, moved on the next day to East Jerusalem and on Sunday night to Haifa, which has a large Palestinian community.
"Today an orchestra, tomorrow a state," Suhail Khoury, director of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music named after the US-Palestinian intellectual who died in 2003, wrote in the programme.
"Today we are witnessing the birth of the Palestine National Orchestra at a time when the Palestinian struggle for independence is passing through one of its most critical and difficult moments," he wrote.
"We musicians truly believe that a state is not only about buildings and roads, but most importantly it is about its people, their values, their arts and their cumulative cultural identity."
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