Pink Floyd founder wants Israeli wall down

Roger Waters has harsh words for barrier during visit to Palestinian camp

	Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters tours Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida in Bethlehem on Tuesday, June 2.
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updated 10:07 a.m. ET June 2, 2009

AIDA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - The legendary rocker and co-founder of Pink Floyd says he would give a concert in a flash if Israel’s West Bank wall is torn down.

Roger Waters made the promise Tuesday during a visit to a Palestinian refugee camp that is hemmed in by the separation barrier’s tall slabs of cement.

The 65-year-old co-wrote Pink Floyd’s iconic “The Wall” album and performed music from it in 1990 at the site where the Berlin Wall once stood.

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Waters had harsh words for the West Bank barrier, which Israel says was built as a defense against Palestinian militants.

The musician says the wall amounts to an oppressive grab of Palestinian land and that he hopes that “this thing, this awful thing, is destroyed soon.”