{"id":12844,"date":"2018-10-21T08:53:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T06:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/10\/21\/all-will-be-good-an-iconic-israeli-peace-song"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T09:49:27","slug":"all-will-be-good-an-iconic-israeli-peace-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/10\/21\/all-will-be-good-an-iconic-israeli-peace-song\/","title":{"rendered":"All Will Be Good: An Iconic Israeli Peace Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t5m31BjDkb8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Israeli singer-songwriter and peace activist, <a href=\"http:\/\/davidbroza.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Broza<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/t5m31BjDkb8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this iconic song<\/a> expresses the desire for peace between Israel and the neighboring Arab nations. This optimistic song was written in 1977, in the context of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat&#8217;s visit to Israel. This visit ultimately led to the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries, in which Egypt became the first Arab state to officially recognize the State of Israel. An English translation of the lyrics can be seen below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>All Will Be Good<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>I look out of the window<br \/>\nand it makes me very sad,<br \/>\nspring has left<br \/>\nwho knows when it will return.<br \/>\nthe clown has become a king<br \/>\nthe prophet has become a clown<br \/>\nand I have forgotten the way<br \/>\nbut I am still here<\/p>\n<p>And all will be good<br \/>\nyes, all will be good<br \/>\nthough I sometimes break down<br \/>\nbut this night<br \/>\noh, this night,<br \/>\nI will stay with you.<\/p>\n<p>Children wear wings<br \/>\nand fly off to the army<br \/>\nand after two years<br \/>\nthey return without an answer.<br \/>\npeople live under stress<br \/>\nlooking for a reason to breathe<br \/>\nand between hatred and murder<br \/>\nthey talk about peace.<\/p>\n<p>And all will be good\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(Yes) up there in the sky<br \/>\nclouds are learning how to fly<br \/>\nand I look up<br \/>\nand see a hijacked airplane.<br \/>\nA government of generals<br \/>\ndivide the land,<br \/>\nto whats theirs and ours<br \/>\nand we do not\/when will we see the end?<\/p>\n<p>We will yet learn to live together<br \/>\nbetween the groves of olive trees<br \/>\nchildren will live without fear<br \/>\nwithout borders, without bomb-shelters<br \/>\non graves grass will grow,<br \/>\nfor peace and love,<br \/>\none hundred years of war<br \/>\nbut we have not lost hope.<\/p>\n<p>And all will be good\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I look out of my window<br \/>\nmaybe it has\/will come<br \/>\na new day<\/p>\n<p>Here comes the prince of Egypt<br \/>\noh how I rejoiced for him<br \/>\nthere are pyramids in (our) eyes<br \/>\nand peace in his pipe<br \/>\nand we said let\u2019s complete (it)<br \/>\nand we\u2019ll live as brothers<br \/>\nand he then said (let\u2019s) advance,<br \/>\njust go out from the territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Israeli singer-songwriter and peace activist, David Broza, this iconic song expresses the desire for peace between Israel and the neighboring Arab nations. This optimistic song was written in 1977, in the context of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat&#8217;s visit to Israel. This visit ultimately led to the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":5969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2553],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/"}],"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=12844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12889,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions\/12889\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5969\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=12844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=12844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=12844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}