WORLD TOUR #18 - Palestine & Israel 2026
- peterjhyland
- Feb 10
- 1 min read
Updated: May 30
Sun Never Sets On Music's never-ending World Tour returns to Palestine & Israel, as we supplement our May 2024 playlist of music from the war-torn land.
I posted my previous playlist around 7 months after the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel, which killed around 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals. The Israeli response to this heinous act had been and continues to be brutal - around 35,000 confirmed Gazan deaths by then and 72,000 now; physical anniahlaton of the territory. The relentless barrage continues, with the loss of 1,500 Gazans every month. The Israeli toll - also tragically unnecessary - averages 40 to 50 per month and 2,000 to date.
This asymmetrical retaliation by the Israeli government is surely genocidal: "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group." .
As I prepared this playlist I was dismayed to find a similar asymmetry in the music: only one Israeli album released from 2024 to 2026 ("Lider Mit Palestin: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love", a compilation by various artists) is explicitly framed around or dedicated to concern about the loss of life and physical destruction in Gaza.
A generation ago a man of Jewish heritage wrote "Masters of War".
Where are his successors?
May songs of peace be soon heard again across the Holy Land.
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