Gaza Blues Gaza Blues

Soundtrack to the war

Soldiers let off steam, kindergarteners sing their way to shelter, and a father jams with his son before he heads to Gaza

'We will yet return to Gush Katif' sings this group of reserves along the Gaza border. (YouTube screenshot)
'We will yet return to Gush Katif' sings this group of reserves along the Gaza border. (YouTube screenshot)

There’s no shortage of footage from the Israel-Hamas war.

There are scenes of running Palestinians bearing the wounded or dead in their arms, Israel Defense Forces videos showing Palestinians using ambulances or schools for military uses, rockets falling, funeral processions, talking heads.

Here are three videos that offer a soundtrack that show another side of this war.

The song Israeli nursery school kids sing about how to behave during a rocket attack:

Israeli soldiers at the Gaza border get psyched up with music and dancing at a staging ground for operations:

In an intimate moment, a father and son playing guitars sing David Broza’s “Yihiye Tov” before the son goes off to war:

Amazing moment. A father sings an English adaptation of David Broza's Yihiyeh Tov ("It Will be Good") to his son before…

Posted by The Jewish Standard on Wednesday, July 23, 2014

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