Roger Waters vs. David Draiman: Music's Israel-Palestine Divide

0:00It's April 17th. Welcome to Music News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with a Story. Roger Waters has dropped an open letter to Billy Corgan, slamming Disturbs David Dryman after Dryman appeared on Corgan's podcast. On the show, dryman spoke out for Jewish rights and hid back at Waters' pro-Palestinian views, even saying he'd talk it out despite their beef. Waters called dryman a psychotic racist Nazi pig and shut down any chat idea flat. Ryan tried playing peacemaker during the episode, but dryman Joe keyed half the punch Waters first. Waters fired back in his letter, accusing dryman of writing messages on bombs, aimed at Gaza civilians, and telling Corgan life's too short for that, mess. Fans in the music world are buzzing over this clash, with some seeing it as free speech in rock, while others call it toxic drama. Their few goes way back, dryman has ripped Waters for years over things like putting a star of David on a concert pig, and backing boycotts against Israel.

1:02Dryman hid X right after, saying he expected Waters' nasty response, but he's still down for dialogue, quoting blessed are the peacemakers. He even reposted his old take on writing anti-Hamas messages on gear to fight what he calls a plague on both sides. This back and forth shows how deep the Israel-Palestin divide runs in music circles with no truce in sight as both sides dig in harder.