Gretchen Ehrenberg wrote:

>the article states that Barenboim was declared "persona non grata" in
>Israel.  ...  Orlev said he would reconsider the ban if the conductor
>attended a session of Orlev's committee with representatives from the
>various Holocaust survivor's organizations.

If I were Barenboim I'd tell them to stuff it.  This is obviously a cheap
publicity trick.  The entire Ban-Wagner routine is getting very old now.
So are the survivors.  IT's time to drop that whole issue.

Mimi Ezust