{"id":13109,"date":"2019-01-14T13:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/01\/14\/ehud-banai-the-refugees-stir-the-cement"},"modified":"2019-01-14T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T11:29:22","slug":"ehud-banai-the-refugees-stir-the-cement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/01\/14\/ehud-banai-the-refugees-stir-the-cement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehud Banai &#038; the Refugees: Stir the Cement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VvRxxgY02QU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Released by Ehud Banai and The Refugees during the First Intifada,<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VvRxxgY02QU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this song<\/a> is written from the perspective of a Palestinian day laborer who travels from Gaza to work in construction in Tel Aviv. Banai himself worked on a building site with Palestinian workers, and recalls the mounting frustration against the Israeli occupation. As the First Intifada began as civil disobedience, including the striking of Palestinian\u00a0labourers, this song became popular during the Intifada.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Stir the Cement<\/h2>\n<p>5 AM in Gaza<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still cold, I&#8217;m tired<br \/>\nI get into Nabil&#8217;s car<br \/>\nAnd fall asleep on his shoulder<br \/>\nOn the way again, the checkpoints<br \/>\nThey say: Stop! Identification papers!<br \/>\nIn another hour is Tel Aviv<br \/>\nAnd this is one more day, just to work.<\/p>\n<p>Stir the cement, Ahmad,<br \/>\nStir the cement.<\/p>\n<p>At lunch break<br \/>\nFrom the scaffolding it is possible to see<br \/>\nWho will build, will build a house<br \/>\nWho will build if we won&#8217;t work<\/p>\n<p>Plaster on the wall,<br \/>\nDust on the city,<br \/>\nI know the song<br \/>\nAlways the same song<\/p>\n<p>Stir the cement, Ahmad,<br \/>\nStir the cement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released by Ehud Banai and The Refugees during the First Intifada, this song is written from the perspective of a Palestinian day laborer who travels from Gaza to work in construction in Tel Aviv. Banai himself worked on a building site with Palestinian workers, and recalls the mounting frustration against the Israeli occupation. As the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":13110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2550,2813],"tags":[2413,2814,2409,2431,2815],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/"}],"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=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13110\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}