Mick Hartley

Palestinian music video from the Al-Wa'ed Band:

Micha Danzig in the Times of Israel:

In this “music video” the singers repeat over and over again the title of the song (that “the story of the Intifada will only be told when the roof of a bus goes flying”) and then heap praise on Hamas terrorist Yahya Ayyash (“be glad, brother Ayyash, for the Compassionate has blessed you …. You did not let a single bus drive through a neighborhood without having chunks of the bus and body parts go flying.”). The object of this graphic adulation, Yahya Ayyash, was the chief bomb maker of Hamas in the mid-1990’s and his bomb making skills earned him the moniker the “Engineer” (of course unlike Israeli engineers who admired for designing, for example, chips for computer processors, solar powered cars, and robots that rescue earthquake victims, Palestinian “engineers” are admired for designing bombs and terror tunnels).

The music video then implores its Palestinian viewers to “wrap the explosive belt around your waist” and to “dispatch them [the Jews] to Hell.” Borrowing from the playbook of the Godfather of Palestinian Arab terrorism himself, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, the former Mufti of Jerusalem from 1920 – 1937 and staunch ally of Adolf Hitler (who repeatedly launched in the 1920’s and 1930’s pogroms and massacres of Jews by falsely claiming that the Jews were planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque), this demonic Palestinian version of a boy-band urges its followers to be a “Martyrdom-seeker” and to “heed the call of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, make the blast of the bomb reach further and further.”

Then after showing scenes where caricatures of Jews are waiting for a bus to come, one of the al-Wa’ed singers cries out “Oh Martyrdom-seeker, make them cry. Make the fire engulf them. Turn them into body parts, roast them, bringing joy to the hearts of the steadfast people.” If that is not graphic and disturbing enough, then after the video depicts the soon to be suicide bomber walking through a bus filled with Jews (conveniently marked with a Star of David sticker in case one somehow misses the point), another singer exhorts “with your explosive belt, we will defend our free women. We want the dead to fill the streets, and the blood to intensify the pain.” Setting aside the irony of the fact that the only “free women” in the entire Middle East (including Arab Muslim and Christian women) are the women in Israel, this song demonstrates in one horrific six minute video why Israel cannot allow for the Palestinians to have a an independent state in any inch of Judea and Samaria until (at a minimum) the Palestinians have undergone a tectonic and generational shift in how they educate and raise their children.

For as anyone that has been paying attention to Palestinian “society” and “culture” knows all too well, incitement to violence and murder, glorification of Jihad and martyrdom, hatred of Jews, and the denial of Israel’s right to exist within any borders, which are all exemplified by this sick and depraved music video, are also considered quite acceptable and normal for the overwhelming majority of Palestinians (and sadly for much of the Arab world) and is far (very, very, far) from being exceptional or unusual.

As the leaders, followers and supporters of Hamas, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, Fatah, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Islamic Jihad, Al Nusra Front, the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, Abu Sayyaf, Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, the Taliban, Ansar al-Sharia and the Iranian mullahs (among many other radical Islamist groups) have been telling us for years, they ALL support “martyrs” blowing up Jews on buses and they all believe in the most extreme view of Dar al-Islam and Dar al-harb (house of war), which includes the belief that any land that was at any point in time conquered and colonized since the 7th Century by Arab Muslim invaders can never revert back to the dominion of the people who were conquered and colonized. It is this belief, and the corresponding view that Jews can only (at best) be “Dhimmi” (second class citizens) in any land that was ever “Dar al-Islam;” and not any so-called “occupation” that has consistently – since before there was even a modern State of Israel, let alone an “occupation” – animated and caused Arab violence against Jews….