Posted on 07/31/2006 9:38:15 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
The wife and father of kidnapped Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, Karnit, holding a wedding photograph, and Shlomo Goldwasser arrive at Heathrow Airport in London, Monday July 31, 2006. Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers on July 12, triggering an Israeli offensive against Lebanon that has killed hundreds of people, mostly civilians.
Ah well, with a handle like yours, I understand the confusion...Hubby's mom's family hails from the Gaffney and Blacksburg area, and scattered around there, and I have ancestral connections to York...so I think South Carolina when I see SC too...
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Egyptian singer famed for song 'I Hate Israel' releases new protest song
By The Associated Press
A populist Egyptian crooner who won fame for his ditty "I Hate Israel" is releasing a new song in protest against Israel' attack on Hezbollah, his production manager said Tuesday.
Shaaban Abdel Rahim's "For Only Two Soldiers," a reference to the two IDF soldiers whose July 12 kidnapping by Hezbollah sparked the three-week-old conflict, is due out on a new album, said Alaa Wahbah.
"No one else dares to make political songs like Shaaban," Wahbah said. "Even the Lebanese singers, nobody did anything."
The former laundryman who sings a kind of Egyptian-folk rap has been widely panned by critics, but developed a huge following after the 2003 release of "I Hate Israel" and the anti-American and anti-Saddam Hussein "Hitting Iraq."
Following a similar formula, "For Only Two Soldiers" seems destined for success.
In it, he exhorts "Oh Arab men, wake up."
"One thousand times I warned of Israel, they thought I was kidding," the song opens. "The truth is now clear. Because of two soldiers, they make a big fuss.
"They forget the massacres and the millions of prisoners. I feel sad for
Lebanon and its people who were attacked and also for Palestine. Where is the voice of Arabs?"
A video clip released on the Arabic entertainment channel "Melody" shows Abdel Rahim singing while pictures of destroyed houses and bodies of children were displayed on the background.
The album should be in stores in a few days," Wahbah said
ROFLMBO!
Yeah....like they forced a cease fire in Darfur...or Rawanda.
Has anyone else noticed the press saying "we bombed the apartment building" etc since the Qana incident. I heard several people refer to it that way at Fox News.
Watching the State Dept briefing, the press is still trying to run with the faked atrocity. I guess they didnt get the memo.
How?
Shouldn't that be three?
Is "along" supposed to be "alone?"
I haven't been paying too much attention this morning. The heat is frying my brain, I think. But I'm sure you are correct. They just can't let go, ya know?
They cant do anything but issue more rhetoric. To steal a line from Robin Williams, "Stop..or I'll say stop again."
The UN has been an inept institution for decades. Just another reason to pull the plug on it in my opinion.
I agree with al-Wacko-Ahmadinejad.
In fact I think they should be thrown out of the UN completely. Then the UN could take their new minuscule budget and find themselves a new home in say Paris and the world would be a safer place.
Yep! How true. Thanks!
Who authored that? Initials LL at the bottom. Lars Larson perhaps?
lol! Point taken.
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