Plug pulled on Palestinian youth orchestra after performing for holocaust survivors

[Black]

I'm sure there's some missing info here, but this story give a bit of odd insight into life on the west bank.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-...htm?csp=15

[Doc]

Black wrote:
I'm sure there's some missing info here...

There's more, but it's probably not what you're expecting.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...wD9758EKG1

The choir burst into songs for peace, bringing surprised smiles from the audience. But the event had another twist: Most of the Holocaust survivors did not know the youths were Palestinians from the West Bank, a rare sight in Israel these days. And the youths had no idea they were performing for people who lived through Nazi genocide — or even what the Holocaust was.

"I feel sympathy for them," Ali Zeid, an 18-year-old keyboard player who said he was shocked by what he learned about the Holocaust, in which the Nazis killed 6 million Jews in their campaign to wipe out European Jewry.

"Only people who have been through suffering understand each other," said Zeid, who said his grandparents were Palestinian refugees forced to flee the northern city of Haifa during the war that followed Israel's creation in 1948.

[Black]

Doc wrote:
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I'm sure there's some missing info here...

There's more, but it's probably not what you're expecting.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...wD9758EKG1

The choir burst into songs for peace, bringing surprised smiles from the audience. But the event had another twist: Most of the Holocaust survivors did not know the youths were Palestinians from the West Bank, a rare sight in Israel these days. And the youths had no idea they were performing for people who lived through Nazi genocide — or even what the Holocaust was.

"I feel sympathy for them," Ali Zeid, an 18-year-old keyboard player who said he was shocked by what he learned about the Holocaust, in which the Nazis killed 6 million Jews in their campaign to wipe out European Jewry.

"Only people who have been through suffering understand each other," said Zeid, who said his grandparents were Palestinian refugees forced to flee the northern city of Haifa during the war that followed Israel's creation in 1948.

Thanks. That was actually touched on in the article I linked, pretty far down though.

[Doc]

Oh yeah. I missed that. Third par from the bottom.

Sorry.