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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 Sharona Schwartz

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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Comments (88)

spfoam1
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:06pm
The history of the Islamic space program: Long ago, Mohammad witnessed a male dog hump another male dog in a display of dominance, and being obscessed with dominance himself Mohammad was fascinated by the act. He then witnessed a naked boy bend over, and the Islamic quest to land on the moon began.

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ofass
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:06pm
Funny Video for you guys: http://www.kr8.co.il/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=71414

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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:24pm
  LOL Ofass…. Thanks.
  
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Comcast3
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:54am
Palestinians, have yet to create a stable society/economy. Launch and land one of their own on the moon? HAHAHAHA! Wonder if they would think to make a spacesuit for their camel-rover….

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NewCreationDave
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:54am
I’m gonna go WAY out on a limb here and state that a group of people stuck in the 12th century might have a few more stumbling blocks in their way to the moon than the policies of a couple of foreign nations. Just sayin …

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christhefanatic
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:17am
You see…this is what happens every time. Allah gives them a stick with a booger on the end of it and suddenly these ingrates think they should go to the moon.

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Timberline
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:08am
yeah I heard he claims that Mossad has suppressed the release of the “palestinian” announcement of cold fusion and perpetual motion too

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Shasta
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:07am
They will probably make it to the moon before OBlamo allows the US to go again. Our dear leader wants American exceptionalism dead and forgotten.

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ShruggingAtlas
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:07am
They must surely realize that Allah has already “mooned” them. They will never look beyond that moon.

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CaliforniaScreaming
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:06am
So digging tunnels under the Israeli border is where all those shovel-ready jobs went? The “Summer of Recovery” spawned the “Arab Spring”. Can’t wait to see what the next two seasons bring. How about the “Autumn of Gun Confiscation” followed by the “Winter of Deterioring Healthcare”?

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DeVain
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:00am
The problem is all Palestinian rockets are pointed to Israel and not the moon.

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christhefanatic
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:50am
Surely they could invest one muslim and one scud rocket.

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The American
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:47am
So it is now our fault that these degenerates of all the african islamic states, now to be referred to as Palestinians, can’t seem to get to the moon?

Why don’t you “Ask Allah”?

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azitdad
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:41am
Islam rejected science, intellectualism, and everything like it back in the 5th Century AD, in exchange for religous dogma. Just sayin’.

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jessieH
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:27am
Learn to read, write & evolve into huan beings & anything is possible, Palistine.

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ofass
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:23am
Oh, look at those kindergarten graduates looking up to the sky, aren’t they cute?…really…. aren’t they.

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JeffersonsPen
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:17am
It’s simple. Build a rocket to go to tthe moon. Vote on landing spot. !00% vote for Telaviv and instead of Palistinauts we pack command module with explosives. Please ! The moon don’t want ya boys and girls. And if you had all the resoures in the world your blind hate wouldn’t, couldn’t change your obsession with Isreal’s destruction. Oh and rap s#$%ks !

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G-WHIZ
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:14am
Awwwww! Poor babies spend alla their money$$ on thousands of rockets and 24/7/365-JIHAD!! I f they didn’t…THEY would have oodls of cash to help their WAY-POOR-PEOPLE with a “HAND-UP” to be as wealthy as all the FREEWORLD!! Lookit N-KOREA….SPENDS 110%$$ ON MILLITARY and feeding their 200%OPPRESSIVE-GOVERNMENT!! Lookit South-KOREA…spends their money$$ on commerce, private enterprise and had way-more left over to keep their millitary and government happy! Lookit alla DUH ******/BRUDDERHOODIE-COUNTRIES….their commonpeople are so broke they would all leave…except their fake religeon keeps alla them 100%JIHAD 100% OF THE TIME!! No tiime is left for anyon to actually “think for one’s self”…itsa all GROUP-THINK controlled by one person…THEIR KING AND NON-SAVIOR! Remember…In “their” heaven…there are 72Virgins for each man-only…but in heaven beercans have holes inda bottom and virgins donot!!

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overthecliff
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:10am
This is proof that rappers, both foreign and domestic, have higher than average IQ`s. Everyone should know that palestinians would go to the moon on that imaginary horse with wings on which Mohammed flew.

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searcher619
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:05am
I like their brand of comedy!

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The_Woofster
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:56am
Really!? What, On their majic carpet? Really!??

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Uechi
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:45am
Pretty hard to get to the Moon on a camel,a donkey or a goat.

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salvawhoray
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:40am
Man cannot survive going through the Van Allen Belt, but if they want to go then let them.

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- Bobj_1960
  Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:59am
  So are you saying Capricorn-1 was real?
  
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love the kids
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:23am
I find this hard to believe, I think almost all Americans and Israelies woul contribute money right now to send all of the arabs to the moon, of course then you will argue that it is yours.

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ofass
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:20am
I am willing to pay for their journey on one condition – they will not be allowed to return…Jerky boy will be on the first flight.

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mopman64
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:02am
Que The_Jerk in 3..2..1.. Bring on the hate.

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