{"id":9903,"date":"2019-01-10T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T11:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/01\/10\/si-himan-shooting-crying"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:27:55","slug":"si-himan-shooting-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/01\/10\/si-himan-shooting-crying\/","title":{"rendered":"Si Himan: Shooting &#038; Crying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KybaWzLCpyU\" width=\"481\" height=\"361\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Si Himan during the First Intifada, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KybaWzLCpyU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this haunting song<\/a>\u00a0explores the effects of war and violence on Israeli society and psyche. Entitled &#8220;Shooting and Crying,&#8221; this popular phrase refers to the psychological impact of Israeli policies on soldiers themselves, applauded\u00a0by some as moral self-reflection and labeled by others as hypocrisy. Hyman wrote the controversial song after hearing about an incident in which Israeli soldiers beat four Palestinians and buried them alive. Israel&#8217;s Army Radio banned the song, claiming it attacked Israeli soldiers, and although it was not officially banned by the Israeli broadcasting networks, it was rarely played.\u00a0<\/em><em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohazak.com\/R-sih8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English lyrics<\/a> are provided below.\u00a0<\/em><em>See the Hebrew lyrics of the chorus below and the complete Hebrew lyrics<a href=\"https:\/\/shironet.mako.co.il\/artist?type=lyrics&amp;lang=1&amp;prfid=753&amp;wrkid=12506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0here<\/a>. <strong>Please note<\/strong>: The video owner has disabled playback of this video on other websites, so this video must be watched on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KybaWzLCpyU&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9904 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2019\/06\/\u05d9\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd-\u05d5\u05d1\u05d5\u05db\u05d9\u05dd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Shooting &amp; Crying<\/h2>\n<p>The street cleaner told me<br \/>\nThat in his village everything had changed.<br \/>\nLife seems different in the shadow of the filth<br \/>\nAnd in my house, the window is broken<br \/>\nTel-Aviv bursts into me<br \/>\nEven its smell has changed &#8212; I sense danger.<\/p>\n<p>Boys play with lead,<br \/>\nGirls with dolls of steel.<br \/>\nLife seems different to me in the shadow of the filth<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter to me at all<br \/>\nWho will win this time.<br \/>\nThe world that I had is no more<br \/>\nAnd the great light has been extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Boys play with lead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chorus:<\/em><br \/>\nShooting and crying<br \/>\nBurning and laughing<br \/>\nWhen did we learn how to bury living people?<br \/>\nShooting and crying<br \/>\nBurning and laughing<br \/>\nWhen did we forget that they also killed children for us?<\/p>\n<p>At home in the city everything is different<br \/>\nWrapped in cellophane, tied to the ground<br \/>\nI wait for the train<br \/>\nHow long will I wait to see what will happen?<br \/>\nUntil when will we wait and cry over what is happening<\/p>\n<p>On both sides, people just want to live<br \/>\nWith this great fear it&#8217;s impossible to see a thing<br \/>\nWe want shelter from the struggle<br \/>\nIt so doesn&#8217;t matter to me who is the stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Si Himan during the First Intifada, this haunting song\u00a0explores the effects of war and violence on Israeli society and psyche. Entitled &#8220;Shooting and Crying,&#8221; this popular phrase refers to the psychological impact of Israeli policies on soldiers themselves, applauded\u00a0by some as moral self-reflection and labeled by others as hypocrisy. Hyman wrote the controversial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2550,2553,2551,2813],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/"}],"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=9903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13029,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions\/13029\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9906\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}