{"id":11082,"date":"2019-03-25T14:08:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/03\/25\/subliminal-biladi-my-country"},"modified":"2019-03-25T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:10:21","slug":"subliminal-biladi-my-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/03\/25\/subliminal-biladi-my-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Subliminal: Biladi (My Country)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/26CeXRrfNdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Released in 2002, during the Second Intifada, this song by Israeli rapper Ya&#8217;akov &#8220;Kobi&#8221; Shimoni (known by his stage name Subliminal) reveals a frustration with the cycle of violence and a strong commitment\u00a0to Zionism\u00a0and the land and State of Israel in the face of terror and war. The chorus, sung in Arabic and aimed at Arabs, references the official anthem of the Palestinian Authority and asserts that &#8220;This is my land, this is my country.&#8221; An<a href=\"https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com\/en\/biladi-%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%93%D7%99-my-country.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> English translation of the lyrics<\/a> can be seen onscreen and below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"fig fig--body\">\n<div class=\"vid-wrapper \"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"par\">\n<h2 class=\"ll-0-1\">Biladi<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ll-0-1\">\n<p>mother Earth<br \/>\neverything that was mine is not mine<br \/>\neven my country turned into my danger<br \/>\na punching bag for international exits<br \/>\nthat will determine for me whether to be or not.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t raise our head, we take punches<br \/>\n(with) eyes closed.<br \/>\nScreaming: live and let live<br \/>\nthis is not my nation,<br \/>\nwanna-bes and illusions<br \/>\nwanna-bes, I can&#8217;t be in the mud<br \/>\nbut we&#8217;re here and we&#8217;ll never go away from here,<br \/>\nthe Zionism is in the Jewish blood,<br \/>\nthat respects Islam<br \/>\nand also Christianity and Buddhism<br \/>\nand everyone else too<br \/>\nmy throat is satisfied,I&#8217;m not thirsty for blood,<br \/>\nunderstand blood spills blood,<br \/>\nand one spills blood<br \/>\nand then in comes his uncle<br \/>\nand his blood is also spilled<br \/>\nwaste of time, he doesn&#8217;t get up, he won&#8217;t wake up,<br \/>\nfather won&#8217;t put the kids to sleep no more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"emptyline\">Who am I, what did I know<\/div>\n<div class=\"par\">\n<div class=\"ll-1-2\">my roots, where did I come from?<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-1-3\">I&#8217;m here and I came from here.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-1-4\">this is my land and my country<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"emptyline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"par\">\n<div class=\"ll-2-1\">Mom!<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-2\">Look at me today,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-3\">I left the weapon,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-4\">I picked up the mic,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-5\">I dream of peace (also greeting)<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-6\">I get &#8220;goodbye&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-7\">f* miracles and wonders,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-8\">everything&#8217;s jsut illusions.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-9\">Living in a storm, in the centre of danger,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-10\">sorrows so great in a country so small,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-11\">I wanna live, die,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-12\">straight, crooked,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-13\">free, captured,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-14\">starting, finished,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-15\">standing, falling,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-16\">soldier, terrorist,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-17\">giving, taking,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-18\">God, Hell<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-19\">You&#8217;re a spilled first born son,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-20\">how everything turned opposite,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-21\">danger sticks to you, like to a smelting furnace,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-22\">again rising and falling, from the fear to the trash,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-23\">69 and we switch,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-24\">the rebellion is upside down<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-25\">again the sidewalk is blood-coloured<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-26\">human heart stopped, blood flows to the sea,<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-27\">a world of sh*, reality with constipation<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-2-28\">living in a movie, dying to live, live in order to die<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"emptyline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"par\">\n<div class=\"ll-3-1\">Who am I, what did I know<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-3-2\">my roots, where did I come from?<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-3-3\">I&#8217;m here and I came from here.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ll-3-4\">this is my land and my country<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released in 2002, during the Second Intifada, this song by Israeli rapper Ya&#8217;akov &#8220;Kobi&#8221; Shimoni (known by his stage name Subliminal) reveals a frustration with the cycle of violence and a strong commitment\u00a0to Zionism\u00a0and the land and State of Israel in the face of terror and war. The chorus, sung in Arabic and aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":11083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2549],"tags":[2413,2431,3150,2647],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=11082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11083\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=11082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=11082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=11082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}