Bon Jovi will be playing Israel in a matter of hours. Forty thousand fans expected, in Tel Aviv. But the news is Roger Waters’s stirring letter to the group, posted at Salon, explaining their moral failure in playing Israel.

Rolling Stone is covering the interchange between the musicians. Very sympathetic coverage of Waters, and a great headline:

“You stand shoulder to shoulder/With the settler who burned the baby,” Pink Floyd co-founder writes

“I insisted that Israel must be on our list and it happened!” Asked about former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters and his controversial boycott campaign to get other singers to nix concerts in Israel, Bon Jovi says: “Yes, I heard about that but it doesn’t interest me. I told my managers to give one simple answer: That I’m coming to Israel and I’m excited to come.”

Here is Roger Waters’s letter, from Salon (links to news sources at the site):