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"They argue, while we die." Echoes of Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, and Pete Seeger in today's Israel
Even in the brief clip above, taken from a song that has appeared all over Twitter and Facebook in the past day or two (my thanks to Daniel G. for being the first one to bring it to my attention), you get a sense that this isn’t the Israeli music you’ve come to know. It sounds a lot more like Joan Baez or Pete Seeger protesting the Vietnam war. But, obviously, it is as Israeli as Israeli can be.
I have often quoted in these posts the insightful observation of my good friend, Yossi Klein Halevi, that one cannot understand Israel without knowing its soundtrack. It’s been true for years (see…
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