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Issandr El Amrani | Libya funny music
Issandr El Amrani | Libya funny music This won't be new to many of you, but I just got to see it after returning from Greece. Catchy.
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You are aware that an Israeli of Libyan decent compiled this clip, right?
he is of tunisian descent, not libyan. the nyt article about it is here.
the original video (with the dancing woman) is here.
That would make sense, I thought that most Israelis were of Arab Jewish heritage with a substantial minority of European Jewish descent.
It's an interesting -- and sad/funny -- moment.
Wolf, didn't know — does it matter?
@Issandr El Amrani
It just proves my point that Israel isn't trying to lock the Arab world into dictatorship rule. The alarm in Jerusalem about the revolution in Egypt were concerning the Camp David peace agreement. Concerns that are just strengthening with time.
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@wolf,
huh? some random israeli journalist and musician made a funny autotune video. i don't think that suggests anything about the issue whether the israeli government is trying to keep arab countries ruled by dictators.
and while i agree that israel is primarily concerned with the camp david accord with regard to egypt, that motive doesn't run contrary to its desire to have egypt ruled by a dictator. i think the israeli government views a dictatorship as the only real guarantee that the treaty will be upheld in the long term. if egypt is a real democracy, both the unpopularity of the treaty among the egyptian people and the fact that any promise to abide by the treaty by one government would only be good until the next election are why israel would want a dictatorship there as a means to insure the long term survival of the accord.
@upyernoz
Unlike most Arab states Israel is a democracy, so the governments opinion is usually the reflection of the peoples opinion.
So a "random Israeli journalist" opinion is not so insignificant as you put it.