A new Hamas music video, sung entirely in broken Hebrew, aims to frighten Israelis but may achieve the opposite.
The music video opens with Palestinian Hamas fighters in fatigues building, transporting and then firing rockets at Israel.
“We prepare a generation of warriors who cling to death like the enemy clings to life,” the words run, with Arabic subtitles.
“A (nation) state of weakness and illusion can’t hold out during wars,” it continues, referring to Israel. “They fall apart like spider webs when they meet knights.”
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Despite the song’s intended goal, the singers’ poor command of Hebrew as well as their heavy accents are likely to elicit an amused response from Hebrew-speaking listeners.
Similar songs have in the past proved rather popular on Israeli social media — though more as objects of ridicule than as a threat which should be taken seriously, probably not the effect Hamas had in mind.
–AFP and Times of Israel Staff
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