1. |
where did you serve?
00:45
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Udi Segal:
Three minutes is the average time in which we’ll start talking about the army.
We’ll start with “Where did you serve?”
Continue: “do you know…?”
and go on.
Weapon
Weapon ubiquitous and in every hand
on the street, in the bus, in the train, on the beach
can’t escape it.
To live in Israel means to be surrounded by weapons.
Weapons became part of our lives.
High schools are proud of 98% army reqruitment.
The soldiers circulate, coated with glory and responsibility.
and on memorial day, the boys fantasise about death in combat
all boys are soldiers
all girls for the boys
all fathers pass on the family torch
all mothers cook
all youngsters fight
all girls support
everyone wants to be a soldier.
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2. |
refuse:military.01
10:14
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3. |
my right to be innocent
00:45
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Udi Segal:
Slowly I understood that I’m not IN
That I don’t want to be a soldier
I don't want to be a soldier,
Let alone an Occupier
I refuse to lose my Self
Oh this Self
I pity you, dear friends
I am sorry for your Self, being slowly digested by the army
I won't help you assert your nationalism
Not with uniform, not with commanders, not with training, and not with virility
Its my right to be innocent and to define my own life
You can be people, not soldiers
You can converse without mentioning the army
And public transport should be normal, not full of rifles
A school is for learning, not for recruiting
Shall we please finish the show?
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4. |
still sleeping
06:26
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Still Sleeping [full text]
Soundscape: a burning boy in a forest
Precisely, the Jerusalem forest
July 2014
The Sound between his mother and me
The Sound where we mothers sink [sync]
July 2016
Sound fear
My sound fear
my children are sound asleep
(sea drained)
I delve into the sound of the Sound:
Soundproof forest amongst right wing neighbourhoods
Car stops by, a man with a big head talking ‘is everything okay?’
I stand where the boy was set on fire
The man must know where I stand
I stand in the sound fear of all mothers
I say ‘who are you?’
Man says ‘We’re watching over you, are you okay?’
Yes! Yes!
See the small stones on the ground?
Here they set the boy on fire
Her boy my boy your boy our boy
Who the hell sets a young boy on fire?!
They
Scum
Soundproof chamber amongst soaring mountains
My children are sound asleep
under the stars
(sea drained)
I sit still by the stairs to the chamber
my head surrenders to visions of horror:
abduction. Someone’s descending the mountain behind, coming
here, lifting my daughter, running away
She cries Ima Ima Ima…
My eyelids start drooping I fall asleep not knowing
what will my eyes encounter tomorrow
Will they all be here?
What if one will be missing, taken to the mountains to a temporary base camp, tortured, set on fire, alive?
Soundproof skull chamber of grey matter
Blasting, shrinking, push it push it push it all
to the back of my head
Good morning sun
Good morning my children
You’re here
Still Sleeping
Still alive.
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5. |
the other is the native
00:45
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the other is the native
close to the edge
all stressful
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6. |
north.jordan.valley.2018
15:00
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7. |
show you the way out
00:44
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Abu Zeid (Marda مرده, West Bank):
Why are you here? Why did you enter the village?
Suddenly I see the one who was shooting in the air all the time, standing in front of me
I said: Why are you in the village? There will be killing. I’ll show you the way out.
He came closer and said: I'm a soldier I'm not afraid.
Listen to me: don’t do anything at all. I am the one who will take you out of the village. If you will do anything, these kids will be killed!
He got closer to me and pointed his M16 to my stomach. I told him: talk to me unarmed. (x2)
He moved back 15 cm from my stomach and shot Dumdum bullets at my stomach.
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8. |
tansik تنسيق
20:00
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9. |
nyahu said
00:45
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Abu Zeid (Marda مرده, West Bank):
Same thing that happened in Germany, happened [in the work of] with the occupation of our lands.
This is the only occupation in the world which didn’t end.
This is the situation.
The number of settlements on our land has exceeded the number of our villages.
Netanyahu said :"I want to take the settlements out of the West Bank.
The settlers came to him saying ‘what did you say?’
He replied: "I said it but i didn't do it"
This is the situation.
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10. |
hunger for justice
28:00
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