crappy hip-hop hasbara… satire?
By Mary Rizzo • Aug 5th, 2009 at 10:55 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Religion, Video, War, ZionismIsraeli TV has a show called Eretz Nehederet that some say is "satirical". Recently, I stumbled upon this "spoof" of hip-hop performers, and while most of the rap trappings were there, judging by the text, it doesn't seem like this video says anything more than the basic Israeli hasbara and the things Israelis generally say in order to get support. Sure, the reason that "We have fast food restaurants" might be an amusing reason for why Israel should be supported on the surface (and amusing is only a way to say that it is absurd, but these are arguments of "our common bonds" and "you are like us, so be with us" statements that are actually heard very often and even in official statements), but the "most moral army in the world", the "THEY started it" and the statements that it is fine to drop bombs over cities because a rocket landed in Israel are not at all different from what Israeli officials and journalists have been saying, so I wonder why the constant "laugh track" in the background.
Here is the text from the site, which omits translating into English some of the text (about the most moral army in particular). See the video to see (badly) subtitled text.
רוצים גם אתם להפיץ את הבשורה? שלחו את המילה טיל ל 5000 וקבלו את הטרוטון של Xplain היישר למכשיר הסלולרי שלכם!
I wake up in the morning and suddenly fall on me TIL
How would you feel if someone throws on you TIL
לא בשביל זה בנינו בית יהודי
The children theysit in M.M.D
We cant go to MAKOLET, we cant go to school
But you don't understand because you live LACHEM BECHUL
How would you feel if in Paris they throw on you TIL
You ask for croissant but instead they throw on you TIL
Our army is הכי מוסרי בעולם
או לפחות בין החמישה המוסריים מכולם
טוב אולי אפשר לסגור
על הכי מוסרי באזור
They throw on us TILIM, we come with METOSIM
But remember who started shooting on EZRACHIM
How do you feel if in London they shoot on EZRACHIM
You want LASHUT in the TEMZA but instead they shoot on EZRACHIM
If you ask why we fight
we say
They started
If you ask why we bomb
we say
They started
If you ask what we want
we say
…..
It's so hard when there is TZEVA ADOM
We have to לארח תושבות מהדרום
They walk naked in the house, they are so MISKENOT
Because גראד פגע להן בחדר ארונות
You support us or we take Benayun from Liverpool
And we tell Noa Tishbi to take back BETIPUL
We take Bar Refaeli, נשאיר את ליאו בלי כלום
Lets see (Leo Di Caprio) him dating with Um Kultum
How do you feel if Leo was dating Um Kultum
And in "Sports Illustrated" instead of Bar there's Um Kultum
Look on us
Look on them
מי יותר דומה לכם
We have McDonalds
תיכף H&M
אפילו סודוך לא הגיע אליהם
אם לא תהיו בעדינו, לא תהיה ברירה
נזכיר לכם מה פעם באירופה קרה.
(הדי ג'יי: ) "שריפה אחים שריפה"….
נראה לי שהנקודה ברורה
Now you know how it feels if someone throws on you TIL
I hope they know how it feels if someone throws on you TIL
Support us, Hate them!
X-Plain!
מילים: אסף שלמון, אסף גפן, אילן שפלר
לחן: דודוש קלמס, גל תורן
http://www.mako.co.il/tv-erez-nehederet/fd82c9a2478a8110/Article-f85dd0df440de11004.htm
Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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Pathetic video and song, to say the least of it. And its quite amuzing how they contradict themselves. On one hand Palestine is the land of the jews given to them by God, on the other they brag about leonardos ex girlfriend and how they are like the western people.. This doesnt add up. If they want to talk about how God gave them this land then at least live up to everything else which is in the torah (as they think that Palestine is their eternal homeland according to the torah), live like the haredi jews and then lets see you try to win support by pretending to be like the people in the west, hypocrites.