Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters scrawled “tear down the wall” on part of Israel’s West Bank security barrier. “It’s a horrific edifice, this thing,” Waters, who is in Israel to play a concert, said Wednesday. He originally was slated to play in Tel Aviv, but changed the venue to the Arab-Jewish peace village called Neveh Shalom after criticism from British fans.
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