{"id":9972,"date":"2018-10-16T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T09:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/10\/16\/hopeless-town-palestinian-israeli-artists-sing-about-the-conflict"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T09:52:40","slug":"hopeless-town-palestinian-israeli-artists-sing-about-the-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/10\/16\/hopeless-town-palestinian-israeli-artists-sing-about-the-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeless Town: Palestinian &#038; Israeli Artists Sing About the Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W9vWN9VDm8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Produced by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heartbeat.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heartbeat<\/a>, a creative social change organization that unites Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/W9vWN9VDm8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this music video<\/a>\u00a0features Palestinian Israeli artist, Rasha Nahas, and Jewish Israeli artist, Neomi Zahor, singing a painful song about the corruption and endless cycle of violence that cause such desperation\u00a0and hopelessness among Palestinians. The lyrics, written by Nahas, can be seen below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Hopeless Town<\/h2>\n<p>so tired of escaping the truth<br \/>\nreading the news and pretending it&#8217;s all good.<br \/>\nand all i see is these walls that you build<br \/>\nthe humans you kill<br \/>\nthe money spent on building more weapons instead of feeding the poor.<\/p>\n<p>you kill<br \/>\nyou take<br \/>\nyou grow hatred all around<br \/>\nwhy not grow peaceful generations in this hopeless town. tell me why<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m not asking for a country or a flag.<br \/>\ni&#8217;m not asking for my land.<br \/>\ni cannot translate my pain into a language you&#8217;d understand.<br \/>\ni can&#8217;t take it no more.<br \/>\ni can&#8217;t face you no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Produced by\u00a0Heartbeat, a creative social change organization that unites Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians,\u00a0this music video\u00a0features Palestinian Israeli artist, Rasha Nahas, and Jewish Israeli artist, Neomi Zahor, singing a painful song about the corruption and endless cycle of violence that cause such desperation\u00a0and hopelessness among Palestinians. The lyrics, written by Nahas, can be seen below.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2553,2604],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/"}],"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=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12813,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/12813\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9973\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}