Doc Jazz – Undhor! Anti-wall song and video
By Guest Post • Nov 14th, 2009 at 21:12 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, ResistanceWords: Doc Jazz and Miko
This song is dedicated to Basem Abu Rahme, 29 years old, who was non-violently protesting the theft of his village's farmlands and was shot dead by the Israeli Occupation Forces. Read his story here: http://palsolidarity.org/2009/04/6273
The song expresses support for the people's struggle against the Israeli Apartheid Wall in Bil'in and Nil'in, on the West Bank in Palestine. People there are waging daily non-violent protests against the confiscation of their lands and their livelihood, while the armed forces of Israel respond with live ammunition and have injured and killed several people in this way.
Music by Doc Jazz
Words by Doc Jazz and Miko
Undhur!
Isma3!
Lazem
Terja3
Sha3bak beddo Falasteen
Undhur!
Isma3!
Sootak
Erfa3
Min Bil3een w min Ni3leen
Lazem enhedd el jedaar
Lazem ned3am el thuwwaar
El 3ado 3am yetleq naar
Jnood 3ala madaniyyeen
Bnetla3 3ala sat7 el daar
Bnerfa3 3alam el a7raar
Bendallna 3alal madaar
Thuwwaar w feda2iyyeen
1.
Wein el naas el mehtammeen
3adadna bil malayeen
Bne7lam beeki Falasteen
Mahma taalat el seneen
Sha3bik 3endo este3daad
Yesmod raghm el i7tilaal
Mahma taal el dholm w zaad
Istiqlaalik 3ala el baal
min ajlik
ya deir yasin
w min ghazza
7atta jeneen
maghla traabik falasteen
wardet ummetna
2.
Ahel Ghazza jabbareen
Ummahaatna samideen
Filnehaaye mansooreen
3ala qawm el ghaddaareen
braghm el 7aal wel 2a7waal
E7na 3endna isti3daad
Ennaadel ded el i7tilaal
Lan7arrer quds el amjaad
(c) 2009 Doc Jazz
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Here is the (non-rhyming, and non-literal) English translation – although when you translate something, it's bound to lose some of its luster:
Watch!
Watch!
Listen!
You have to return
Your people wants Palestine
Watch!
Listen!
Raise your voices
From Bil'in and from Ni'lin
We have to bring down the wall
We have to support the revolutionaries
The enemy is opening fire
Soldiers against civilians
We climb unto the rooftops
We raise the flag of the free
We will stay around the clock
Revolutionaries and freedom fighters
1.
Where are the people who care?
Our numbers are in the millions
We dream of you oh Palestine
No matter how long the years are
Your people have the readiness
To be steadfast despite the occupation
No matter how long the injustice lasts, and increases
Your independence is on our minds!
For your sake, oh Deir Yasin
And from Gaza to Jenin
Your soil is so precious, Palestine
The rose of our nation
2.
The people of Gaza are so brave
And our mothers so resilient
And in the end they will overcome
The treacherous people
Despite the situation and the circumstances
We have the readiness
To wage resistance against the occupation
And to free Jerusalem, city of the exalted
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=221052&content=songinfo&songID=7788173
My recent concert in Al Quds University in Palestine was received very well, especially my Arabic anti-wall song "Undhor"!
This song now has a music video with footage from the anti-wall protests in Ni'lin and Bil'in, including the shots of where Palestinian activists manage to bring down a section of this horrendous Apartheid edifice.
I hope a music video like this can help keep the struggle against zionism, apartheid and racism alive. If you also think it can, then please mail the (link to) the video to your friends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BKIvQRZpzc
Another great way to help re-igniting the fire of anti-wall activism is by posting this video on your Facebook page, your website, Twitter, or publicizing it by any internet means that is available to you.
Yours sincerely,
Tariq
P.S. the concert was recorded on video, and will be made available soon!
