Hi Efrén, I think there is a big difference between 500 years old history and 50 years old history. And, much more important, there is no way we can compare Sharon, Bush or even Stalin to Hitler. 6,000,000 Jews were killed, more than a half of all at that time. Think about it for a second. I know, it is a new trend especially in Europe either to pretend that nothing remarkable really happened or that it was Jews' fault that it happened. It is a dangerous trend, don't you think? BTW, people can make their statements about the things which are important for them. There should be no logic like "if he says this then why he didn't say that". Dave Douglas was talking about Yugoslavia, Marc Ribot - about the crisis in the Middle East, so why Zorn cannot talk about Nazis? Friday, February 20, 2004, 4:11:18 PM, you wrote: EdV> If every non-American musician cried out on stage EdV> against everything that the US government has done EdV> against civil rights, freedom, democracy, etc, Zorn's EdV> statements in Germany would be justified. I think it's EdV> a bit of a simplistic attitude, to say the least, to EdV> raise your fist against Nazi Germany 50 years later to EdV> an audience that probably was a small spermatozoid EdV> swimming peacefully back then, or even less than that. EdV> Did he say anything when he presented Masada in Israel EdV> against Ariel Sharon's massacres? Did he say anything EdV> in Sevilla about the way the Spanish kingdom treated EdV> Arabs & Jews 500 hundred years ago? Or about terrorism EdV> in Spain? (Because we've suffered a bit of that for EdV> over 30 years and nobody moved a finger) Come on. -- All the best, Peter Gannushkin URL: http://downtownmusic.net/