Violent, Inciteful Music Gains Popularity Among Young Palestinians
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by News Editor
The True Love gift and music store in the West Bank’s Ramallah (pictured here) stocks new CDs of protest songs and popular political music. Photo: Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
The Palestinian teenagers who came one after another into the True Love gift and music shop on a recent afternoon all had the same request: nationalistic songs — the new ones.
The proprietor quickly handed over the CDs that he had just started keeping at the checkout counter, like “Jerusalem Is Bleeding,” featuring the track “It’an, It’an” — “Stab, stab” — with its ominous backbeat.
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