Posted on 06/02/2010 5:54:22 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
What's plain is that the Gaza flotilla's nominal purpose, delivering "humanitarian" supplies to Gaza, was secondary to the aim of provoking a confrontation. The Gaza flotilla turned down an Israeli offer to unload the six boats and deliver the goods to Gaza by truck; it ignored repeated warnings that it would not be allowed to reach Gaza. Its spokesmen said they would insist on "breaking Israel's siege," as one of them put it.
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Listen & Buy Bob Dylan's "Neighborhood Bully" MP3 Today! Lyrics below.
Audio from the IDF soldiers who boarded the boat.
Neighborhood Bully by Bob Dylan
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man, His enemies say he's on their land. They got him outnumbered about a million to one, He got no place to escape to, no place to run. He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive, He's criticized and condemned for being alive. He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin, He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in. He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land, He's wandered the earth an exiled man. Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn, He's always on trial for just being born. He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized, Old women condemned him, said he should apologize. Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad. The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad. He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him, 'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac. He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of. What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love. He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side. He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace, They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease. Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep. They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep. He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone, Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon. He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand, In bed with nobody, under no one's command. He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon, No contract he signed was worth what it was written on. He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth, Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health. He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for? Nothin', they say. He just likes to cause war. Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed, They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed. He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars? Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars? Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill, Running out the clock, time standing still, Neighborhood bully.
(c) 1983
May God Bless Israel ... and of course America too.
Dylan’s Neighborhood Bully @
Should I look for some of the old bully threads?
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Previously posted as Amazing Dylan lyrics on Israel, Wednesday, June 19, 2002 1:45:18 PM by dennisw
I have been posting Neighborhood Bully on FR for years—almost every Dylan thread I participate in.
One of Bob’s best. A driving, relentless, song—not so much angry as it is mocking and basically saying “screw you, we’re gonna do what we have to do to survive.”
Dylan, though he imbibed a bit in the Hussein Kool-Aid, is at heart a man who is not the hippie some of his contemporaries hoped. He is in many ways a man of solid values.
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Aw ... I know that Dylan can’t sing, but it’s because he can’t sing is why his songs are so great.
Dylan sounds like ME, singing in the shower. That’s why he is so great.
Ping BD
Not the first folksinger without a lovely voice (I like Dick Gaughan though he is completely WRONG on so many issues!), but... some music just needs a "natural" voice. Nice to see one on our side for once.
LoM, can we get a CD or track?
Trying to look for the video version of this song has not be easy. Copyright issues. But it is worth it.
“In before the “Dylan Can’t sing” crowd steps in with information that is already known and simultaneously irrelevant to the topic.”
He’s done okay for over 50 years, without being able to sing./
Think lyrics, melody, composing, originality, image, creative.
Others have recorded his songs, like Hendrix, Byrds, etc.
Quoted directly form FNC Hannity’s show (the DVR is on freeze frame):
PASSNGERS PREPARED TO DIE
For Sake Of Jihad
“If I am martyred during my voyage, do not be sad. I will be in paradise, because I am going to wage jihad for the sake of Allah.”
(As quoted from a rat bastard scum sucking hellbound islamofascist kool aid drinking pos)
Went to iTunes and it looks like there has been a LOT of purcheases, I would say since Monday. :)
Plus, I would safely assume, Dylan has won a Grammy or two alone the way. Plus this song has gotten very popular the last few days.
Using lyrics by him to make your point is akin to quoting Jane Fonda concerning patriotism.
Are you serious? You obviously don’t know much about him.
By the way, he lives in the conservative enclave of Malibu, CA.
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