I am thankful that Harvey Mason Jr. reminded an audience of music makers and their fellows that the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel brutalized a music festival.
The festival wasn't the only target of attack, and the points I'm trying to make are tangential to the awful trajectory of violence. However, let those who have expertise on the politics and the history of this conflict, which sometimes seems eternal (it's been going on all 71 of my years), debate those larger issues, including whether rape and killing of civilians can be justified as tactics of warfare.
I simply hate the violence and want to talk about the part that I can talk about, the part that's pretty much been ignored and not mentioned enough. The part that Mason, who is the Grammys' CEO, talked about during his speech on the televised primetime Grammy Awards show this past Sunday evening (Feb. 4).
Mason reminded his audience that music events have been attacked by both organized and lone-wolf terrorists.
