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Masked Palestinian Gunmen Stall Rock Concert in West Bank City
AP ^ | AP-ES-07-05-05 2300EDT<

Posted on 07/05/2005 9:08:20 PM PDT by TheOtherOne

Masked Palestinian Gunmen Stall Rock Concert in West Bank City
The Associated Press
Published: Jul 5, 2005 NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Shooting into the air, dozens of masked gunmen cut short a rock concert by a popular Palestinian singer in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday night.

Defying the burning tires and chants against him, the singer, Ammar Hassan, was whisked onto stage 45 minutes late. He opened his show with a song about "Holy Jerusalem" in an apparent effort to appease the gunmen. Less than an hour later, however, guards ushered him off stage.

The concert was the opening of a festival meant to bring normalcy to the largest city in the West Bank, hard hit by Israeli army operations and curfews in more than 4 1/2 years of Palestinian-Israeli violence.

The interruption of the concert was the latest sign of growing chaos in the Palestinian areas.

"This is the not time to have parties like this in Nablus," said one of the masked gunmen, who would not give his name. "We lost a lot of martyrs and lost a lot of friends, and this is not appropriate for Nablus."

The concert ended with a brawl between opponents and supporters of the show throwing chairs at each other. Then shouting erupted between armed university guards and policemen, but no shots were fired and no injuries were reported.

AP-ES-07-05-05 2300EDT


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bummerdude; harshedmellow; israel; pa; plo; terrorism

1 posted on 07/05/2005 9:08:21 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
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To: TheOtherOne

Unreal


2 posted on 07/05/2005 9:09:29 PM PDT by Coxy
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To: TheOtherOne

Guess "Give Peace A Chance" doesn't go down so well on the West Bank, huh?


3 posted on 07/05/2005 9:11:12 PM PDT by speedy
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To: TheOtherOne
"FREEEEBIRRRRD!!!"
4 posted on 07/05/2005 9:13:08 PM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody had to post it...why not me?)
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To: speedy

speedy wrote:

Guess "Give Peace A Chance" doesn't go down so well on the West Bank, huh?"

--Let's find out, let's send a bunch of our peacenik rockstars and actors there and let them get back to us. :)


5 posted on 07/05/2005 9:13:22 PM PDT by 1FASTGLOCK45 (FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
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To: 1FASTGLOCK45

I'm all for that, glock. I'd love to see how big bad Springsteen would react with bullets flying over his guitar.


6 posted on 07/05/2005 9:15:46 PM PDT by speedy
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To: 1FASTGLOCK45

I'm all for that, glock. I'd love to see how big bad Springsteen would react with bullets flying over his guitar.


7 posted on 07/05/2005 9:16:19 PM PDT by speedy
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To: TheOtherOne
"This is the not time to have parties like this in Nablus," said one of the masked gunmen, who would not give his name. "We lost a lot of martyrs and lost a lot of friends, and this is not appropriate for Nablus."

Isn't that what a martyr does? Like die! I don't think you can be a martyr unless you buy the ranch.

8 posted on 07/05/2005 9:22:46 PM PDT by Pit1
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To: TheOtherOne
move along folks, nutting unusual to see here except the "gunman" was masked.

So what does it matter if the gunman/gunmen were masked or not? Arent they ALL TERRORISTS GUNMEN to start with??!!

9 posted on 07/05/2005 9:37:46 PM PDT by prophetic ("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things."--Dan Rather)
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To: TheOtherOne

---"This is the not time to have parties like this in Nablus," said one of the masked gunmen, who would not give his name. "We lost a lot of martyrs and lost a lot of friends, and this is not appropriate for Nablus."---

The time to celebrate will come when these masked gunmen are dead.


10 posted on 07/05/2005 9:45:10 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: TheOtherOne

These guys have quite a party in store for the new Palestinian state. Should be quite the vacation destination.


11 posted on 07/05/2005 9:50:02 PM PDT by kezekiel
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To: TheOtherOne; dennisw; Alouette; SJackson; Yehuda; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus; dighton; Sabramerican; ...

They must have gone berserk when they realized it was a rock *music* concert, not a rock-*throwing* kill-Jews-for-@llah event.


12 posted on 07/06/2005 2:18:26 AM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: kezekiel

Let them get their state and then first time they hit Israel, bomb the crap out of them!


13 posted on 07/06/2005 3:05:31 AM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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The concert was the opening of a festival meant to bring normalcy to the largest city in the West Bank,

Welcome to normalcy!

14 posted on 07/06/2005 5:26:28 AM PDT by SJackson (Israel should know if you push people too hard they will explode in your faces, Abed. palestinian)
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To: SJackson

I suspect more than a few Palestinians will be disheartened with "New Palestine" if it actually comes to be. It will be A Clockwork Orange, Arab style. And no good Israeli-run schools, hospitals, etc.


15 posted on 07/06/2005 6:18:18 AM PDT by veronica
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To: Thinkin' Gal
This, would really confuse them. Jews can rock too.
16 posted on 07/06/2005 7:17:04 AM PDT by Sabramerican (Sarcasm/Some here don't get it unless you spell it out)
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To: TheOtherOne
>Less than an hour later, however, guards ushered him off stage

Well, for what it's worth,
when Joan Jett tried to open
for Sting at Sox Park,

Chicagoans threw
so many crumpled up cups
Joan was forced to leave . . .

17 posted on 07/06/2005 7:23:41 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Sabramerican
Subliminal is a great listen:

Subliminal

"One of the biggest Israeli rap stars, Subliminal (né Kobi Shimoni), was not invited to the concert. Striking a gangsta pose with heavy jewelry, including his signature bejeweled Star of David, Subliminal represents the right wing of Israeli rap. His latest album has gone platinum in Israel (more than 40,000 copies) on the strength of catchy anthems and incendiary nationalist imagery, as in "Divide and Conquer," where he says: "The country is shaking like a cigarette in the mouth of Yasir Arafat."

Subliminal has already created a divide in the hip-hop community. Aaron Bisman, the founder of JDub Records and one of the promoters of the Prospect Park concert, said he did not invite Subliminal because he did not think the concert's message of openness and peace would be of interest to him.

Mr. Nafar is a former protégé of Subliminal but has fallen out with him and now refers to him simply as "an idiot." Their relationship is the subject of a documentary, "Channels of Rage," that has played at colleges and Jewish film festivals."

http://www.hasidicreggae.com/press/nytimes.html

or this called "The Sticker Song" (lyrics are all bumper stickers in Israel)by Hadag Nachash

Lyrics

"Hadag Nahash ("SnakeFish") is a chart-topping Israeli hip-hop group.

Like many Israeli pop musicians such as Teapacks and the Idan Reichel project, The Dag Nahash blend Western pop music and ethnic music to create a unique sound tapestry, somewhere between hip-hop and world music.

One of their most famous hits is "Shirat Hasticker" (known as "The Sticker Song" in English), written by Israeli novelist David Grossman. The lines in the song are all direct quotes or plays on slogans that actually appeared at some time on bumper stickers in Israel, but the unique collage of opposing political slogans juxtaposed against apolotical slogans, parodies and so forth creates an angry irony.

Hadag Nahash has a minor rivalry with the famous Israeli hip-hop star Subliminal, as is shown in the lyrics of the song "Gabi V'Debi" (Gabby and Debi)."

Hadag Nachash

18 posted on 07/06/2005 9:18:20 AM PDT by dervish (freedom is a long distance race)
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To: Thinkin' Gal; SJackson; dennisw; aculeus
Mohammed got the nose bleed seats at this big rock event


19 posted on 07/06/2005 10:58:05 AM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: TheOtherOne
He opened his show with a song about "Holy Jerusalem" in an apparent effort to appease the gunmen.

Then followed up with the Bob Dylan classic "Everybody Must Get Stoned".

20 posted on 07/06/2005 1:58:34 PM PDT by SupplySider
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