Send Hamas over to "Mr. Blonde".
Posted on 12/12/2023 1:52:11 PM PST by Rummyfan
Can we get a rewrite on “Stuck In the Middle With You”? Something with lyrics like “Fools to left of me, morons to the right, here I am…”? It would be the theme song of the results obtained by Berkeley professor of political science Ron Hassner in his recent survey of students:
When college students who sympathize with Palestinians chant “From the river to the sea,” do they know what they’re talking about? I hired a survey firm to poll 250 students from a variety of backgrounds across the U.S. Most said they supported the chant, some enthusiastically so (32.8%) and others to a lesser extent (53.2%).
But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew who Yasser Arafat was (12 of them, or more than 10%, thought he was the first prime minister of Israel). Asked in what decade Israelis and Palestinians had signed the Oslo Accords, more than a quarter of the chant’s supporters claimed that no such peace agreements had ever been signed. There’s no shame in being ignorant, unless one is screaming for the extermination of millions.
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Send Hamas over to "Mr. Blonde".
Nope. Internet myth. I heard it was only 3 percent.
Hamas to the left of me, illegals to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with dems
I always thought that was a lousy song trying to copycat Bob Dylan. Sorry.
Hamas to the left of me, Shi’ites to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with Jew
From the River to the Sea, Eretz Yisrael will be free!
The singing isn't THAT bad.
No, but the song is...
Now I have that song stuck in the middle of my head, set on Repeat.
ROFL
Dylan didn’t come to mind when I first heard this song. And now that you’ve pointed it out, it still doesn’t.
Jerry Rafferty is singing the original with his group
Song was released in 1972. Were you around from about 1968 to 1972? This is when Dylan was big and there were lots of copycats.
And then he went to Baker Street.
I was a teenager in 1972.
Every time I hear this song now, Michael Madsen dancing around with a straight razor comes to mind.
Did you ever listen to Bob Dylan back then?
...clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right
here I am, stuck in the middle with you...
Gerry Rafferty sang that, long before he was an ‘oernight’ success with his album that featured Baker Street.
I kind of like the song, and I don't care for Dylan (unless someone else sings). The copycat charge is a stretch - similarities are subtle and good be stretched to fit any number of singers/groups.
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