Tuesday 11 February during the first evening of the Sanremo Festival, the Israeli Noa and the Palestinian Mira Awad will duet on the notes of Image by John Lennon, a clear reference to the war and Gaza and the hope that the truce will hold. Reports it Republic.
The relationship between the two singers dates back to many years ago. In 2002 they sang together We can work it out of the Beatles a Caliberin 2009 they participated in Eurovision Song Contest representing Israel with There Must Be Another Way. They never stopped collaborating.
Note in our country where he often performs and where he has reached great popularity thanks to the soundtrack of Roberto Benigni's film Life is beautifulNoa was awarded in 2018 with the honor of commented on the order of the Italian Republic. It has always been engaged in initiatives for peace and active in the dialogue between the two peoples. From before the invasion to Gaza criticizes the Netanyahu government.
“We are experiencing a horror of unimaginable proportions,” he said after October 7, visibly shaken. But, he added, “I want to end the occupation, I don't want to conquer another people, I don't want it to be in misery. I want it to be happy. I know that his well -being is my well -being ».
In February 2024 he told Republic That “after October 7 they asked us, they asked me, if I finally had” rendered “: from what? From my faith in humanity and dialogue? That day, in the blood, my vision has collapsed or rather the arrogant one, supremist, militarist that this country has been following for years? ». But, he added, the ideas exhibited in Europe and in the United States by Liberal and progressive, who thought were “street companions”, was shocking.
«We felt abandoned, betrayed, not recognized as victims: only because Israelis. There is no white and black in life: if you choose to be on one side, without looking at the other, if you disqualify the other, you cannot say that you believe in peace and coexistence. Going to the square to scream “From the river to the sea” without remembering the right of Israel to exist, and to exist in this land, means propaganda hatred. Exactly as those who would like to erase the Palestinians from this same land ».