Mick Jagger talks about US politics amid war: ‘America is worrying’

Amid the United States’ involvement in the war between Israel and Palestine, Mick Jagger spoke out about politics. The statement was released on the same day that the Rolling Stones released a new album. Hackney Diamonds is the band’s first new album in 18 years.

Read excerpt from interview with The Guardian (via Variety):

America is worrying, because if they elect extremist governments, we will get into many conflicts. People don’t really know what they’re talking about half the time, to be honest. Sorry, but they don’t know. And they still have very strong opinions.

Festival in Israel

The producer of Supernova Universo Paralello Editionan electronic music festival that was the target of attacks by Hamas (the trigger for the war), spoke out for the first time last Saturday, the 14th. On Facebook, Tribe of Nova published a post removing impersonality and highlighting the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

The victims were referred to in the text as “countless innocent angels, whose only ‘crime’ was that they were Jews and lived in Israel.” According to Tribe of Nova, the event team has been working with Israeli authorities to help injured people and search for people who remain missing. The scenario in Palestine, after Israel’s retaliations, is even worse.