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Originally Posted by MH
He also could be one of those that can blame just about everything but not himself or his attitude.
Ask yourself how many Israeli Arabs live here better life than most Arabs in ME and much better than Jews.
If he is good talented musician there should should not be a problem to make living for him... but probably there are thousands like him.
How many Jewish musicians hardly make it in a market of 6m people?
I'm not saying that everything is GOOD and nice...there is a lot of mistrust involved but Israeli Arabs as community don't make it easy for themselves.
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Took it at face value, fella. He certainly didn't sound like your typical jew hating arab, far from it - he seemed to not really think of himself as having any ties to a community. But then that sentiment can go both ways, which I think was his point. Getting gigs here and there is not a means to earn a living (as I know all too well) scoring a recording deal is the way to go, but because of the question of 'which faction do you hold allegiance to?' he found many doors slammed in his face. I guess he made a basic living by other means. But it's not easy to follow your goals when others (including those who are supposed to be 'your own kind') view you with mistrust and suspicion. I guess it's easy to fall foul of others prejudice when you don't have any hate of your own. But that's true for many individuals everywhere.
I'd say if he had the drive to follow his music as far as he could, then it doesn't sound much like he was just sitting around, bleating on about how unfair everyone is and doing nothing about it.