Madonna on Israel-Hamas conflict: “How can human beings be so cruel to one another?”
nme.comMadonna took a moment to address the current Israel-Hamas conflict while on stage at The O2, expressing her exasperation at how human beings are capable of “being so cruel to one another”.The artist urged the crowd to “remember we are human beings here” because “we cannot lose our humanity” and to make a difference by bringing “light into the world”.Madonna had addressed the conflict briefly in the early shows of her four-night run of ‘Celebration’ shows at the London arena, saying on the opening night that “watching what’s happening in Israel and Palestine” breaks her heart.
On the third show on October 16, however, she expanded on her comments.“Nobody wants to see what’s happening,” she said. “I turn on social media and I want to vomit.
I see children being kidnapped, pulled off motorcycles; babies being decapitated, children at peace raves being shot and killed.
What the fuck is going on in the world? How can human beings be so cruel to one another? It’s just getting worse. It frightens me.”Paraphrasing a quote by her “great inspiration”, the author James Baldwin, she continued: “The children of the world belong to all of us, each and every one of them.
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