Re: The Middle East Twilight Zone according to Steven Plaut
- From: "Warhol" <molarh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:17:26 +0200
They are thieves of our Moorish Music,,, the music that makes people
dance... as Rock and Roll is more than 6000 years old Moorish Music, with
the ritme's and the lyric's right's... and they never Mention the true
author's of all those classic's...HOW DO WE CALL THAT,theft of outhor right
I think. Those music belongs to Moorish and Celtic and asian Nations... Ohhh
Gran'da'dy what did they do to you.... the Monster, they left you naked....
Ohhhh Bag'dad'dy did the ORAQ'CLES not warn you... didn't the 3d Curtain
Vision Projector not say never trust a new servant in your home... Or where
you drunken again while on service???
Look now he has stolen everything from your children and we are naked with
no knowledge of our gloreuse past.... Ohhh Gran'da'dy even Naked we are
still standing to the destroyers of our homes... and your House...
I am sure this was for education propose for all your subject My Lord... and
you are testing us to see what for idiots we all are in this lower world...
who dared to think that we we could KILL the Lord, while you are
IMMORTAL.... it are olny stupid chickens who may think they can kill a
Immortal... Think stupid RATS how can you kill somebody who is immortal,
please explain me this.... Kids know that is impossible otherwise he would
be not immortal.....
Gran'da'ddy forgive them, they dont know what they do... they are only
annimals who have forgotten who they really are... I TELL THAT TO THE
STARGATES CREW'S TOO who dared to kill a IMMORTAL... He comes allways as a
Ghost after his aggressors... Known as the GREEN KNIGHT... dont say you were
not warned... everybody knowns the story of king Arthur who always
returns... with great teachings.
Ohhh Lord, I am Teaching them now, give me a few day's more than this 1259
and 1 days I got for their salvation and restore your teachings... before
your justice is done and you cutt the COW'ards RAT'S heads off, on your
turn, and do all cruel things they did to you!!! The Teach R sun.
"Ariadne" <ariadne.mac@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
1126829654.237892.209730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hebrew songs making a comeback in Gaza
> Yasser Baraka
> Gaza City, GAZA
> September 9, 2005
>
> Gaza City, GAZA -- As taxi driver Salem Mallahi goes about his daily
> work
> on the streets of Gaza City, he always listens to music. In the past
> couple of months, however, new and unlikely music tapes have started
> filling up space in his car's already overflowing glove compartment -
> tapes of Hebrew songs
>
> Mallahi was first introduced to Hebrew music a worker inside Israel.
> Mallahi was in his early twenties then, and the Israeli occupation of
> the
> Gaza Strip was not as hard as it has been in recent years, he says.
> Life
> for the Palestinians, according to Mallahi, was easier those days.
>
> "We were in a taxi heading to Haifa to the factory we worked at,"
> Mallahi
> said. "The driver was Jewish and was listening to [Israeli singer]
> Zahava
> Ben. Her voice and music were very oriental, and I've liked Hebrew
> music
> ever since," Mallahi said.
>
> During the time he spent working in Israel, Mallahi discovered that
> many
> of his Palestinian coworkers also enjoyed listening to those Hebrew
> songs
> that had an oriental flavor. He started listening more, and became a
> fervent fan.
>
> Even when the first Palestinian intifada broke out in 1987, Mallahi and
>
> others like him remained hooked on these songs. It was the melodies,
> rather than the lyrics, that appealed to them.
>
> "Israeli music had this special flavor that combines oriental and
> western
> instruments, producing an exotic tune that is comfortable to listen
> to,"
> says 32-year-old Fadi Dohan, a tailor who used to work at an Israeli
> sewing factory in the Israeli town of Khadera.
>
> "I know that most of the Israeli singers we listen to originally came
> from
> Arab countries like Morocco, Iraq and even Yemen," Dohan says. "They
> knew
> Arabic and some of them were brought up just like us, which explains
> their
> oriental tone," he adds.
>
> Indeed, it was not unusual for a Hebrew tape to have at least one
> Arabic
> song performed as an original by the Israeli singer or as an remake of
> famous Arabic songs.
>
> After the signing of the Oslo peace accords and the establishment of
> the
> Palestinian Authority in 1994, more Palestinians started buying Hebrew
> music.
>
> "The PA realized that there were many people who liked Hebrew songs, so
>
> they hosted Zahava Ben here in a concert in Gaza, and she sang in
> Hebrew
> and in Arabic. It was broadcast live on Palestine TV at that time,"
> Dohan
> reminisces.
>
> However, admiration for these songs rapidly dwindled after the second
> intifada broke out in September 2000, as Israeli forces invaded large
> parts of Gaza Strip.
>
> It was hard for the fans of Hebrew song to put these songs on the
> shelf,
> but listening to them in public reminded Palestinians of their
> oppressors.
>
> Khader Abbas, a psychology professor at Al Azhar University in Gaza,
> adds
> that the rise in religious zeal in Gaza has contributed to a decrease
> in
> the number of Gazans listening to Israeli music over the past five
> years.
>
> "Hearing the Hebrew language brought back sorrow, anger and despair,
> because it became the language of the soldier who shoots and demolishes
>
> life, and the language that was heard at checkpoints," he says. "It
> became
> the language of death to Palestinians."
>
> Music store owner Fadi Moshtaha says he used sell 1000 Hebrew music
> tapes
> every month before the outbreak of the second intifada. Over the past
> few
> years, however, he hardly sold a handful.
>
> "The rise in nationalism and the domination of Islamic resistance
> movements drove people to steer away from anything Israeli, and
> instead,
> they started buying Koran recitals and nationalist songs that glorify
> martyrs and resistance attacks," says Moshtaha.
>
> In addition, he says, listening to Hebrew music during the Intifada was
>
> considered by many to be "consorting with the enemy", an accusation
> that
> could cast heavy shadows on listeners or buyers of such music.
>
> Earlier this year, when Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the PA,
> prospects of peace were finally glimpsed in the horizon, and
> accordingly
> Palestinian attitudes to Hebrew music began to change.
>
> And with the ensuing ceasefire declaration by Palestinian militant
> groups
> last February, people began smelling peace in the air, and Gaza was
> ready
> to receive Hebrew music again.
>
> At the Azhar University park, where dozens of students relax on the
> lawns
> with their books and bags, Emran Abu Amra turns on his stereo and
> listens
> at full volume to a song performed by Israeli singer Dodo Yasmine.
>
> Back at the nearby coffee shop and snack bar of which he is owner, Abu
> Amra opens a drawer chock-full of Hebrew music tapes. Now is the time
> to
> bring them out again, he says.
>
> "With the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza taking place, these songs have
> ceased to be a taboo. I like listening to Israeli music, and sometimes
> when I'm alone or late at night at my coffee shop, I switch to the
> Israeli
> army radio, where they play some really good songs," he says.
>
> Also optimistic about the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is Moshtaha,
> the
> music store owner. He has taken the Hebrew music tapes and compact
> discs
> that he wasn't able to sell during the intifada, and has lined them up
> on
> a rack.
>
> "I've already made some phone calls to bring new albums from Israel,
> but I
> need to at least recoup some of my losses in these tapes by selling
> them
> as vintage Hebrew music," Moshtaha says with a big smile on his face.
>
> www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050909-083943-1942r
>
.
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