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The Mighty Zionists
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A satire on Zionism
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Hi folks. I have added a lot of videos recently. Please take a look!
Hi folks, This site acts as a personal archive of my work. So you'll find my best recordings here as well as some pretty crappy ones. The earliest recordings here were made on simple cassette decks, others were made on mobile phones, some are live recordings made at various gigs over the years, a handful were made in small recording studios, but most of the more recent ones were made at home on a Zoom portable studio, which itself is now rather ancient! If you like a song and want to download it, click on 'Full song info' for that song and you will see the download link. You can also read the lyrics and any background information on the songs that I may have added. All my music is available for free - enjoy :) cheers, Charles
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Podcasts • Comedy - Political Humor
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#120 in subgenre Peak #2
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Peak #26
Author
Charles Cornelius Tyler
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Charles Cornelius Tyler
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July 04, 2009
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MP3 3.9 MB • 128 kbps • 4:18
Story behind the song
This is part of my trilogy of songs on the Middle East conflict. The others are 'I want to grow up to be a bomb' and 'Rapture Bell'. These days I no longer believe in a two-state solution to the problems of Israel-Palestine. This would only cement in place the enormous historical injustice done to the Palestinians by the late colonial movement known as Zionism. Besides it is now a virtual impossibility because of the spread of settlements. The reality is that Israel-Palestine is already one country. It just happens to be a country in which one group of people oppresses and humiliates another while stealing their land piece by piece - and crying foul when the victims try to fight back. The central issue is not one state or two - but human rights. The holocaust was a tragedy for the Jews. The creation of the modern state of Israel was a tragedy for the Palestinians. Palestinians are quite right to say that they should not be paying now for the crimes committed against Jews in Europe and elsewhere. Until Israelis wake up to the reality that the violence they suffer from rockets and bombs is the direct result of their occupation of Palestinian land and the constant humiliation they inflict on the Palestinians there will be no peace. Until Palestinians give up the idea of re-taking the land they lost through violent action there will be no peace. All the people who now live in the land have a right to be citizens of all the land and to live in it in peace with their neighbours - their neighbours within a single border - within which all the people have the right to live and work and travel in any part of it - no checkpoints - no security walls - no exclusive settlements. I believe that the answer to the present impasse is not to divide but to unite - to tear down the walls - physical, legal and mental - which divide the citizens of this single country - and to build a single multi-ethnic secular state for all its people based on respect for human rights and freedom both of and from religion. One person - one vote - one country, and the right of return for all genuine refugees. The idea that any Jew, anywhere, has an automatic right to move to Israel has to end. Immigration policy should not be based on ethnicity, race or religion. Jews have to give up the idea of having a Jewish state in all the land and Muslim Palestinians have to give up the idea of having an Islamic state in all the land. And then, surprise surprise, both Jews and Palestinians can have it all. Then, finally, with cooperation and goodwill, the enormous talent and creativity and vitality of both communities can finally flourish. This new re-born state could be a beacon to the world of how to settle conflicts and how people of different faiths and backgrounds can live together in harmony. For many centuries in this land Arabs, Jews and Christians and others were able to live in peace together. They can again. You may say I'm a dreamer..... Book References - just Google them: "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by Ilan Pappe "One country" by Ali Abunimah "Herzl's Nightmare" by Peter Rodgers "Palestine Inside Out" by Saree Makdisi "My Israel Question" by Antony Loewenstein ... and many, many more.... The one state solution is an idea which is growing in acceptance daily. I believe it is unstoppable because it is based on universal ethical principles - and that, just as the policy of apartheid could not survive in South Africa, so the policy of apartheid will not survive in Israel-Palestine. I believe that in the end the pressure for justice and human rights will triumph over the folly of Zionism. I also believe that the best way to achieve this change is through non-violent action. Like writing a song for instance. Or passive resistance. My feeling is that if Palestinians were to adopt the one-state solution as their goal and simultaneously adopt non-violent tactics to achieve this end the whole conflic
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THE MIGHTY ZIONISTS We are the mighty Zionists Don't dare to call us racists Cause that's the word that we reserve for you And if you criticise Israel We'll label you anti-Semitic as well And say you're a self-hater If you happen to be a Jew Yes we've got all the answers To any arguments And with our good friends in Washington no Arab stands a chance We've grabbed the land we wanted Where the milk and the honey flow We're holding on with the bomb and the gun And we're never ever letting go Our story starts in Switzerland Where Herzl first laid out his plan To build a place for the Jewish race In the land of Palestine There were all you Arabs living there But you were just peasants - we didn't care We had no doubt we could kick you out It was only a matter of time So we devoted all our energy To lobbying the powers that be When Balfour fell beneath our spell We knew we had it made All those years of persecution All that European shame Combined to blind the UN's mind And that's how we won the game To join our club is easy There's just a simple test It helps if you're Jewish of course And I think you know the rest You must believe in the Promised Land That's one thing to get straight Though it's hard to swallow The God we follow deals in real-estate And when you're a Believer Everything is justified Even if you have to kill And cheat and steal and lie For we are the persecuted That's why we must be strong And why whatever we do is righteous And whatever you do is wrong Now everybody hates us Except for the USA They give us the guns and they give us the bombs We never have to pay Terrorists don't frighten us In fact we wrote the rules With the Stern Gang and the Irgun Do you think we're a bunch of fools? It's only wishful thinking To pray we'll go away Our claim began with Abraham Like it happened yesterday So here's our message for you Arabs You were only camping here And when we got our hands on the Bible lands Your history disappeared! We're so good at ethnic cleansing You'll hardly find a trace Of five hundred Arab villages erased And with our brilliant propaganda The whole world sings our tune In a land that was bare with nobody there We made the desert bloom And on all the land we stole in 48 and 67 We're building just as fast as we can Our exclusively Jewish heaven And we'll bulldoze any Arab home That still stands in our way And we don't give a damn What you think of our plan With the mighty fists of the Zionists We're here and we're here to stay! Charles Tyler 2007
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