David Gilmour and Roger Waters have engaged in their war of words in the media for several years now. For those hopeful they’d resolve their differences, that appears not to be happening anytime soon.
The past 24 hours have seen Gilmour and his wife, Polly Samson, take aim at Waters over a recent interview he did with German newspaper Berliner Zeitung. Waters, himself, shared the translated interview to his official website.
He prefaced the interview with a personal message on his website saying, in part, “Against the backdrop of the outrageous and despicable smear campaign by the Israeli Lobby to denounce me as an anti-semite, which I am not, never have been and never will be.”
Waters also alleges the “Israeli Lobby” tried to cancel his “85% sold out series of concerts in Germany.”
From Waters’ remarks in the interview to Samson and Gilmour’s responses, here’s a breakdown of the situation: