Alicia Keys is bigger than her critics

Here's Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler for Tuesday, June 4.

1) Music lives in Israel

Arsen Ostrovsky interviewed Zubin Mehta about performing Israel:



According to Mehta, "it's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national
pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music." He
adds "the amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is
amazing."

Mehta,