"Our people achieved victory by Jihad" and other top hits. It's sing along with Hamas in Gaza. From AFP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip: They may be Islamic radicals but even Hamas values a catchy pop tune, cranking out 10 new victory songs about Israel's historic pullout from the Gaza Strip.Notorious for its use of suicide bombers in Israel, the extremist faction has now released "Gaza Victory News," its latest weapon in its propaganda war with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party.
Seeking credit for the end of Israel's 38-year occupation, the album, with a sinister masked man and an Israeli soldier's boot in flames on the cover, boasts songs by the Yassin Band, named after the late Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin.
The songs are generally drum machine and violin-filled. Thunderous baritone choirs and a male tenor or child's soprano weave in and out on tracks called "Gaza, it has come," "We liberated Gaza" and "It is returned with blood."
The message is clear: that Hamas's military wing forced Israel out of Gaza.
The music has scored with Gaza's youth, weaned on a culture of guns and "martyrdom."
"These songs encourage us to fight the settlers in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Jerusalem, everywhere," says falafel seller Ziad Abu Taha, 26....
"Hamas is the strongest party, so it makes the best music," opines 20-year-old Mahmoud.
In an impromptu survey, kids, who have heard the song on the tape or Hamas's Aqsa radio station, raved about "Gaza, it has come."
"The victory flags fly and the wounds are on it, but the brutal army withdrew and the independence fighter cries: "Our people achieved victory by Jihad," go the lyrics.
This will live in legend as did other "victories." Tell a tall-tale long enough and it become truth in the minds of tellers and hearers.
Israel handed this land to these morons. They didn't earn anything. Then, with their complete lack of self control, they burn and rip apart synagogues. It's good that they did this, because the entire world got to watch them.
I have a feeling that the Palestinians are setting themselves up for a big event, and they're too ignorant to know it.
The songs are generally drum machine and violin-filled
Shouldn't that read...generally drum machine and violence-filled?
Don't forget about the "Jihadist of the month" club where Palestinian members get 5 beheading DVD's for just 1 penny extra .
I found this in the Washington Times:
"I think this is unacceptable behavior from our people," said Khan Younis Mayor Osama Alfara, who had just walked through what used to be the neighboring settlement of Neve Dekalim. "But our people want to be sure that there is no return of the Israelis, so they are taking some things as a memory."
THAT explains it -- they're looting for keepsakes and momentos "to be sure that there is no return of the Israelis..." Makes perfect sense in a Palestinian post modern there is no objective truth kind of way!
DC:
In all probability (they are cruising for the bruising of their lives). Pendulums do swing back and the harder and faster they swing one way (away from pro-Israel sympathies to the Palestinians), the harder and faster they can swing back the other way.
The EU will take a very dim view of things if they don't stop firing rockets and killing Israeli civilians, and while few of them are likely to say so, the Europeans aren't any too enamoured of the Islamists they have in their own midsts. If the EU gets fed up with them, that will send up quite the signal to Bush & Co.
I didn't think music was allowed in islam. Aren't string instruments taboo? What's with the violins?
Yes, I was wondering the same thing, Michelle, re music being forbidden. But it seems they make an exception if it's about celebrating "victory" over unbelievers. Pumps them up, for the next battle. Then music is okay, if the purpose is to spill more blood, or celebrate the bloodletting. Sick people.
It would be nice if they gave them a bar of soap along with the album.
I don't think the anti-Jewish "pendulum" will ever swing in favor of the Jew's being "permitted" by the world to live and prosper, let alone have their own nation. However, if Israel is to survive, she needs to look Eurabia, Condi, Bush, right square in the eyes and say "We are going to do what is necessary to defend our people. If you find that politically inconvenient, or if it offends your muslim "friends", paymasters, and apologists, we'll get along without you."
In the "they're just like us" department:
"Hamas is the strongest party, so it makes the best music," opines 20-year-old Mahmoud.
Ah, so that's how they do their Top-20 list. Whichever band has the biggest number of murderers is the top act. If we followed their logic, Michael Jackson in the 1980's would have had quite an army of mortar/rocket/snipers to back him up.
A Dirty Kafir's answer to Hamas' Gaza Victory News:
http://www.terrorists-suck.org/fight/index.html#music
I guess my Palestinian No No Song will remain a piece of fiction.
http://baconeatingatheistjew.blogspot.com/2005_08_24_baconeatingatheistjew_archive.html
Infidel:
Maybe, maybe not. Who would ever have thought that Richard Nixon would return from obscurity to be elected and re-elected president only to be hounded out of office in disgrace? In Canada, nobody would have believed after Pierre Trudeau took his famous walk in the snow and announced he was leaving politics, would be re-elected Prime Minister and likewise Robert Bourrassa, the premier of Quebec who was dumped in disgrace over something and made premier again a number of years later.
If the Palestinians go on acting exactly as they are now, a lot of their sympathizers are likely to quietly disassociate themselves from their cause.