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Pop star Shakira makes plea for Lebanon peace

 

Pop star Shakira made a plea for a cease fire in Lebanon Thursday, before performing at a concert in Athens. "So many mothers and children are dying every day and that's something we cannot tolerate, not today, not in the 21st century," said the Colombian singer whose father is from Lebanon.

 

"I want to call (on) the US leaders to stop this war, because we all know that they can stop it," she said.

 

"I just hope that there is a diplomatic and international intervention right away, I think it's necessary." Shakira is on her Oral Fixation world tour. Her remarks were well received in Greece, which has evacuated 1,700 people from Lebanon 500 Greece and 1,200 non-Greeks and where near daily demonstrations have been held against the Israeli attacks.

 

 

Late Thursday, about 500 people marched to the Israeli embassy to protest the bombings.

 

At the rally backed by Greece's Communist Party, youths chanted "Israelis, Americans Killers," and burned two homemade Israeli flags.

 

Here's the full statement;

 

I want to speak as a young person in the name of my generation because I am sure that my generation agrees with me on this: war is not the answer, war is not the solution to any conflict. Not today, not in this century. Its urgent that there is an international diplomatic intervention and an immediate cease of fire. I am sad, I guess like the rest of the world is, to know that because of this conflict so many innocent mothers and children are dying. I just want a call from my generation to the US leaders and the super power countries' leaders to stop this war because we all know that they can stop it. I just hope that there is an international diplomatic intervention right away. We want something better for our kids; the kids in Colombia, the kids in Israel, the kids of Palestine, the kids of the world, because I believe in only one human race. ..We don't need leaders that create more divisions and resentment and more hatred. We need leaders that care about the people and about the social needs of a nation, not leaders that only invest on weapons and space missions. I think we need to start worrying about what we have here on this planet, which is really tough, it is tough to survive in the world we are in, with so many natural catastrophies like the tsunami that just happened in Asia and on top of that, we are killing each other. This is something I don't understand. There is a lot that we need to start doing in order to survive as a community and as one human race.

 

I'm glad she has spoken out about this, but some of what she says sounds a bit idealistic.