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Arabic Rapper Says U.S. and Israel to Blame for Palestinians Not Sending Man to the Moon

Jan. 14, 2013 6:55am
Palestinian Rapper Says US and Israel to Blame that Palestinians Not Yet Sent Man to the Moon

Hip hop group DAM, with Tamer Nafar in center (Facebook photo)

A Palestinian musician is blaming the U.S. and Israel for the fact that the Palestinians have not yet been able to send a man to the moon.

Tamer Nafar of the Arabic hip hop band DAM says the group’s latest album was inspired by the contrast between NASA’s space exploration and the digging of smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. He tells the pro-Palestinian website Electronic Intifada that the “occupation” and the U.S. are to blame for hindering Palestinian space exploration ambitions. He does not mention that Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 and that Hamas – defined by the State Department as a terrorist organization – now controls Gaza, not an Israeli “occupation.”

In the interview, Nafar describes the inspiration for DAM’s new album Dabke on the Moon. Dabke or Debka is a traditional Arab line dance (Emphasis added):

Well, once I read an article about some NASA experiment on the moon, or in space, I don’t know, but they created some kind of a spaceship that goes to outer space to do something. And on the same day, I read an article about the people in Gaza digging tunnels. I didn’t feel comfortable with these two opposites. They are exploring the galaxies outside of Earth, and the Palestinians are digging tunnels — it’s the opposite direction.

Of course we want to go to the moon, but we cannot do it with the occupation. And who’s responsible for the occupation as well? America, the USA. They are sponsoring billions of dollars every year to make us dig under tunnels. I didn’t like it, and it was a sad song at the beginning. How come we are digging tunnels and they are reaching outer space?

Nafar also blames Arab dictators for restraining the purported Palestinian moonwalking dreams:

So the Arab Spring gave us power — that we as people, we believe that we can reach the moon.

In the song we say, we are in the spaceship, the spaceship is ready and we are trying to fly, but somehow the screens on the spaceship are telling us that we are overweight. So the Arab Spring taught us that to do so, we have to drop some of the weight. And we do — we open the window, and we throw out all the Arab leaders, all the dictatorships, all the corrupted money, and we are ready to fly.

While quick to blame Israelis and Americans, the musician refrains from mentioning some pricey line items in the Palestinian Authority (PA) budget which deplete funds that could – if there were a genuine desire – be used for space exploration. A full six percent of the Palestinian budget is spent paying salaries to terrorists serving time in Israeli jails and financially supporting the families of suicide bombers who murdered Israeli civilians.

The PA spends $4.5 million per month on the prisoners and another $6.5 million on suicide bomber family allowances, sending a strong message to Palestinian parents that suicide bombing is a more lucrative career for their children than rocket science. In 2011, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad tripled the monthly pay for the terrorist inmates.

The hip hop musician also did not mention $100 million in unmet pledges to the Palestinians made by the Arab League.

DAM is the band which prompted controversy in 2011 when it was invited by the Portland, Oregon, public school system to play at Lincoln High School. Its songs’ controversial lyrics justify terrorism and compare Israelis to Nazis and rapists.

In its track, “Who’s the Terrorist?” DAM sings:

Democracy? I swear you’re Nazis
With all the times you raped the Arab spirit
It got pregnant and birthed a boy called the suicide bomber
And here you are calling us terrorists

Even while he blamed Israel, band member Nafar conceded in a Rolling Stone Middle East interview that Palestinians can’t blame only Israel for their problems:

While the Israeli occupation affects all aspects of life for Palestinians, says Nafar, there are changes that need to be made from within Palestinian society and problems that can’t just be blamed on the occupation. “You have the same things in Amman, in Morocco and there aren’t any Israeli tanks over there,” he says.

Rolling Stone Middle East also describes a call for women’s rights in the Arab world in one of DAM’s songs on the new album:

“If I Could Go Back In Time” has caused a stir in the Arab world. The video – which quickly went viral – depicts a young woman who tries to resist an arranged marriage and is murdered by male family members, in what is often called an “honor killing.”

Nafar says the song is a reflection of DAM’s support of women’s rights and desire to tackle “taboo subjects.”

While the band is referred to as Palestinian, its members are Arab citizens of Israel from the city of Lod.

Here is DAM’s music video “If I Could Go Back In Time,” which depicts the female victim of an honor killing:

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  • OccamsSword
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:58am

    Need to learn to wipe your @ss before you worry about going to the moon….”So the Arab spring gave us power”?? Wrong, u just dug another deeper hole and jumped in. But don’t worry, your jealous hatred of us will be eased, not because you will excel, but because Obama will have us down to your miserable level soon.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:38am

      Hold on! That is the perfect location for a Palestinian state.

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    • Pontiaku
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:50am

      There has been a huge misunderstanding of the Palestinians. They are not suicide bombers. They are actually attempting to reach orbit with those vest.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:01pm

      I’m thinking Jackie Gleason…. POW!

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:14pm

      ♫ The wheels on the Camel Cart go round and round… round and round… round and round ♫

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    • DadRocked
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:30pm

      Dmerwin – “Hold on! That is the perfect location for a Palestinian state.”
      Take the Masjid al-Haram with you and oh, I don’t know…
      90% of the worlds libs too…
      Yep, that should do it…

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:43pm

      “Arabic Rapper Says U.S. and Israel to Blame for Palestinians Not Sending Man to the Moon”

      And on another note…”Palestinians sell assault weapon on E-Bay”…http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/14/wait-until-you-see-what-the-price-of-the-cavemans-assault-weapon-aka-a-rock-has-skyrocketed-to/

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    • shakedowncrews
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:38pm

      Exactly what I thought.
      This must be the result of the NASA outreach to make the ******* feel better about themselves. Can anyone tell me one single TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT the Arabs have invested or that is used globally? 1000 years ago they were good with Algebra, who cares? Today they seem to be eager to live in caves and spend all their energy abusing women (and livestock).

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    • urrybr
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:45pm

      @shakedowncrews It wasn’t the Palestinians that invented Algebra, it was the Persians . . . pre-Ahmedinejad Persia. The Palestinians haven’t invented anything but their claims on a Palestinian state. Islam won’t allow them to go to the moon. Some mufti or whatever, will say that Allah considers it a sin to go to the moon. They’ve had how many years to put a man on the moon, and all they can think about is how they’ve been screwed by America and Israel. Once they stop acting like victims and grow up into the 21st Century, then they’ll begin thinking about the moon. Right now they’re happy to live in the 6th century.

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    • ArchaicSEAL
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:46pm

      Ahh yes, of course, blame someone else for your failures. Hell, blame the whole world for your people being backwards, inhuman and moronic. Muslim nations haven’t even been able to START working on an intercontinental missile system, and you want to even think about going to the moon? Do you know why your people will never go to the moon or into space? Because you don’t give a shet about space exploration. All you care about is your sharia law, blowing up other people, raping, killing and hating. It is far easier for a muslim nation to have a nuclear program with destructive intent than to have a space program with intent at exploration. Hell, look at North Korea, they just now have an “almost” intercontinental missile system and they can’t even get satellites into orbit properly… you muslim morons haven’t even launched any rockets (except for RPG-7s and you don’t even MAKE those.)

      Stop blaming others for your personal as well as societal failures. If you are fail, pick your damned selves up, change your ways and work hard towards it instead of being lazy animals who just want to kill, screw, eat and pray five times a day all while living in nothing but extreme hatred. Grow the hell up first.

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    • KeystoneState
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 6:43pm

      You know what, I am so sick of what these stupid idiots think, they don’t contribute tihs! Why do we continue to give a voice to the ‘takers’ of the world and this country? If we would just stop giving, aka, producing wealth by saving a bit and just taking about a two week vacation (while sending all our employees home for the same amount of time), this crap would stop in an instant when people would see the stores go empty because of the trucks, trains, and planes not delevering the goods, and the cable, and electricity turn the hell off! Perfectly legal, no violent, and EFFECTIVE!

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    • Junter
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:40pm

      Yes it must be someone else at fault. They were too busy being a religion of peaceful rape and intolerance.

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  • Richard_FL
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:58am

    Ya right……….when pigs fly!! These camel jockeys have achieved nothing in their miserable existence and never will……….they are a pathetic lot of want-a-bees with no ambition what so ever other than to steal from those of us that have made something of ourselves. Same losers they always have been……….PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

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  • RIGS
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:46am

    HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well invent your CAMEL ROCKET that will send your RAGANAUT out of the camels behind skyward you MORON……………………..

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    • piper60
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:57am

      The “Arab occupation” of the mix east has reduced the dynamic and creative center of classical civilization to filth and squalor wherever there aren’t Israelis collecting the trash and fixing the sewers.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:37am

      The moment I think that I have seen the most idiotic thing on The Blaze, and lately it has mostly been from SENDTHEMETEORS. His use of the term AK-15…..twice comes to mind, along with any other idiotic statement.
      Then The Blaze prints a story like this. Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! I just stopped typing, have not actually stopped laughing yet.

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    • MN NICE
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:57pm

      RIGS… I imagined a little different picture… I can see a camel with a rocket/spear in his mouth and his balls on a stump… And behind the camel is muhamed, counting down, swingin a big ol’ mallet!!

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  • texastommy
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:46am

    So, let’s give them $10 billion a year and tell them they’ve got a decade to get to the moon. If they don’t then we turn Gaza into a glass parking lot that glows in the dark. I figure that’s a fair trade.

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  • takearight
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:41am

    It’s all about jealousy. The Muslim Arabs see that the rest of the world has passed them by and their culture is still in the dark ages. They are jealous of the success of the Jews and the West and so they try to tear down those more advanced than they are. It’s a lot like liberals who demonize the successful and somehow believe the rich are responsible for their failures. Envy and jealousy are the root cause of most of today’s turmoil.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:35am

    OhhhhhhKaaaaaay, whatever guys. Groan. Funny, sad, but they are still the crazy fanatics who will cause much heartache and misery to the world through their beliefs. Wish we could wish them away, but we can’t.

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:28am

    Who knew?

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:28am

    I didn’t think that rap could get any more annoying, I was wrong.

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    • imsteph
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:33am

      c-rap is what it is referred to in our house.

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    • crueltiming
      Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:17pm

      All I needed to see was Arabic and rapper in the same sentence to know that the end is near.
      Is there a way to gather money to send them ALL to the moon?

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  • whatsitallabout
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:24am

    None.

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  • discus02
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:04am

    Wasn’t Allah supposed to send the Palestianians to the moon.

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  • RaydocX
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:51am

    … Because new Palestinian seat wasn’t created for their use?
    The sad horror is that too many will nod and agree, rather than snort and ask who so poorly educated this tool.

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  • ObserverOnTheHill
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:48am

    specifically, George Bush’s fault

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  • jackact
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:48am

    Palestinians have employable job skills?
    Since when?

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:46am

    I feel a Jackie Gleason quote coming on…

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  • tzion
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:45am

    This from the people who weren’t building their own cars BEFORE 1967 (not that many could even afford cars back then like they can today).

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  • kenndeaux
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:43am

    Just how can the true “infedels” think they can get to the moon..?” Do they think Mohamed will give them a lift..?

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  • grickm
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:41am

    Hey, what’s that woman doing without her burka?

    Yeah, blame someone else, that’s the way for them to feel better about themselves and their self-imposed misery.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:41am

    Here we go with the propaganda of Radical Islam.

    By declaring they would have been on the moon by now, save for the ‘occupation’ of Israel/America, they make a claim to the larger world of being an ‘oppressed’ people. They seek to show the Palestinians ‘what they have been denied for generation upon generation’ and seeking the ‘liberation’ of their homeland.

    They forget that the Arab nations are the ones responsible for ensuring the Palestinians still remain refugees to this day, political pawns and nothing more.

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  • GuruMeditation
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:37am

    Hahahaha

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  • americansfightingforcommonsense
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:35am

    “Of course we want to go to the moon, but we cannot do it with the occupation. And who’s responsible for the occupation as well? America, the USA. ”
    Wow, I can’t believe it! They blame everyone else for their problems. They blame us for the fact they have not been to the Moon? I have seen some morons in my day, but these guys take the cake and the blow it up! Animals…that is all they are! They have no common sense, humility, or love for mankind!

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  • The Misanthrope
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:30am

    This is just too funny. These people are mentally still in the 5th Century, however, it will come to pass soon. Remember Obama’s advise to NASA’S Director Bolden on the outreach to Muslims? Frankly I think we should send all Muslims to the moon (one of the Galileo moons of Jupiter would be nice).

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  • Government_Goodies
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:28am

    I think “MOONBAT” was lost in the translation.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:25am

    They blaming the Jews because the Jews took their flying carpets? Or is it our fault for not giving them enough money……And Building them a rocket….and manning the Rocket…and shooting the rocket off for them? I guess the next Palestinian terrorist needs to strap on more explosives?

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  • ares338
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:19am

    It finally happened….I can’t believe it…..someone finally said something more moronic than Joe Biden. Someone call Ripleys Believe it or Not!

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  • Southerner01
    Posted on January 14, 2013 at 7:14am

    Who knew that was what they wanted? Lets send them all to the moon!

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