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| Teapacks performing "Push the Button" |
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Tamar Yonah is a creator, producer and radio show host at Israel National Radio.com. She also assists with immigrant absorption in her community, as well as in Israel at large.
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By Tamar Yonah
March 5, 2007
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| Lordi, Finland winner of Eurovision 2006 |
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Israel's Eurovision song entry this year, "Push the Button" by the group Teapacks, is a wry piece on Islamic terror and the nuclear threats Israel faces from these demonic leaders. The group's lead singer, Kobi Oz, is from Sderot, a town in Israel that has seen kassam rockets slamming into its residential areas for a number of years, killing and injuring its residents, while the world looks on in apathy.
I couldn't believe that THIS was the song Israel was going to send to the Eurovision Song Contest this year. When I first heard it, I gawked, "Oh my Gawwwd!" I was taken aback! The song was half rap, half 'just weird'. It certainly wasn't a 'pretty' song, or one that Israel usually sends in for a contest entry. And then I started reading about the song and the Europeans reaction to it. It changed my mind. Israel's song choice is controversial, I won't deny it. But the objections coming from the Europeans really ticked me off.
A sample of the lyrics to "PUSH THE BUTTON":
The world is full of terror
If someone makes an error
He's gonna blow us up to biddy biddy kingdom come
There are some crazy rulers they hide and try to fool us
With demonic, technologic willingness to harm
They're gonna push the button
push the button push the bu push the push the button
....And I don't want to die
I want to see the flowers bloom
Don't want to go kaput kaboom
And I don't want to cry
I wanna have a lot of fun
Just sitting in the sun
Kjell Ekholm of the EBU's Eurovision Song Contest's reference group stated that "It's absolutely clear that this kind of message is not appropriate for the competition."
Anyone who takes offense to Israel's song choice, and says it is not proper for the Eurovision contest, need only look at last year's entry that actually WON the contest. They were dressed like 'Decomposed Monsters who were part Klingon, part Viking, part Hounds from Hell. They donned metalic garb with sharp spikes, and had fingernails that looked like it could slice a person in half. They even brought on stage a killer axe.
Their song entry contained these lyrics below:
...Wings on my back
I got horns on my head
My fangs are sharp
And my eyes are red
Not quite an angel
Or the one that fell
Now choose to join us or go straight to Hell...
This group was none other than Finland's own heavy metal band called LORDI.
So, though I really don't care for our rap and rock song that Israel will be performing, maybe this is a good, "stick it to yuh Europeans, with love, from Israel's citizens." We are constantly being threatened and attacked by our neighbors, while Europe feeds and often encourages the terror beasts, then tells us that we are the ones at fault.
Our message to the millions of Europeans who will watch Eurovision? It may be we Jews who are gonna get attacked, but not only us. It's not JUST the Jews, it's FIRST the Jews, and then YOU! First the Saturday People and then the Sunday People.
And Europe better watch out, because their continent is fast earning the name Eurabia. Perhaps that is why there are objections to Israel's entry this year? Perhaps the Europeans are intimidated by this bold and blunt song? Perhaps they are afraid of getting the Mullahs angry? So if the powers that be in the Eurovision decide to nix Israel's song choice, it could be safe to say that (with last year's winner) it would prove them more than hypocritical, or holding double standards as the Lordi bandmembers held the double-edged axe. Letting a violent death-themed song with axes on stage win the contest, and then disqualifying Israel's song that says we want to live in the sun and not get bombed is, well, so typically 'European' -- hypocritical to the Finnish.
If we just bring that message to the millions of viewers who will be watching, whether we win the number one spot or not (face it, probably not), perhaps we will finish the real winners, after all? And if not, of course, we can always "push the button push the bu push the push the button...."
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