Andreï Makarevitch, one of the most famous Russian Rock Stars, does not like a lot of the Smolarz auditorium in Tel Aviv where he must perform, the evening of Saturday December 21, 2024. With his 1,200 seats stacked on several floors, the concert hall reminds him too “Read the rooms of the Kremlin”, Sighs the 73 -year -old guitarist, founder of the Mashina Vremeni group (“The time machine”). Like the star of the evening, the public is mostly made up of opponents of the Vladimir Putin regime who no longer want, or can no longer return to Russia.
Support from Ukraine since 2014 and the annexation of Crimea, the Jewish confession musician exiled in Israel in 2022, before being appointed “Agent from abroad” By the Kremlin, a year later. Since then, in the Hebrew state, Andreï Makarevitch, opposing the ambitions of territorial conquests of Vladimir Putin in Russia, has become a fervent supporter of the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.
On December 22, Andreï Makarevitch received at his home, in his house perched on Mount Carmel, in the north of the country, between two dates on his world tour. On the walls where music instruments, old pistols and old sabers are intertwined, the singer designates a titled card “Judea under Herod the Great and its children”In reference to this king of the Holy Land from 37 to 4 BC, which remained famous for the reconstruction of the temple of Jerusalem, of which only the wall of lamentations remain today. The region is represented as a single Jewish territory, without mention of the existence of the Palestinian people. “Just look at this planPoints the Rock Star. Israeli occupation does not exist. »»
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