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(JTA) — Pink Floyd guitarist Roger Waters said he was still considering whether to call on musicians to boycott Israel.<\/p>\n
“I am considering my position,” Waters said in a taped interview published online Monday by The Huffington Post. “The letter asking my fellow musicians to boycott Israel has never appeared. I’m thinking it all through extremely carefully \u2026 because I care more about the outcome, because I care about the people involved, than I do about the moment.”<\/p>\n
Waters last month likened Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza to South Africa’s apartheid policy segregating blacks and whites that was the target of an international boycott.<\/p>\n
Waters said he wants to avoid “some kind of dramatic moment that could very easily blow up and mean that I would, in the long term, have less effect on the outcome.”<\/p>\n
Other prominent musicians who have spoken out against Israel and cancelled performances there in recent years include Elvis Costello, Santana and the late Gil Scott-Heron. Waters was cited as a major influence on Stevie Wonder cancelling a scheduled performance at a Friends of the IDF fundraiser concert last summer in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
“Assuming that you’re rational and that you care about other human beings, the goal strategically should be a solution of the Palestinian refugee problem, an end to the occupation, security and the right to lead a decent life for all the citizens of Israel,” Waters said.<\/p>\n