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El Haija brothers

Download the song – The Hawk of Lebanon (mp3)

Translation of Lyrics:
I hail thee, hawk of Lebanon
I welcome thee, Hassan Nasrallah
Here are your men, Hezbollah
Victory, victory with the help of God.
Nasrallah, this brave person
He responded to the calls to take vengeance
The Arab blood became hotter and hotter
The boldness and the courage that characterizes this battle is an Islamic courage
You can launch as many rockets as you want
But our people will never surrender
History will write your story
And God will always bless you
Your rockets in Israel all generations will talk about
And your Katyushas have scared the Zionists
Nasrallah, raise your voice
Our people are used to welcoming death
We do not want money or treasures or wealth
All we want is to live a free life
Blood only brings blood
And I hope we can destroy your life and make you worry
Zionism and Zionists are the biggest poison in Arab land

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Hezbollah this week is pledging to help rebuild destroyed areas of Beirut and southern Lebanon. The act is serving to bolster an already wildly popular organization. The group and its leader Hassan Nasrallah are seen as heroes by many in Lebanon and the Arab world for standing up to the Israeli army, considered the most powerful in the region. In the West Bank and Gaza, new songs praising Nasrallah and Hezbollah are selling like mad, for about two dollars. The World’s Aaron Schachter takes a look at one of the songs, “The Hawk of Lebanon.”

On the day before a Palestinian Muslim wedding, men and women gather separately for parties.

This party for the bridegroom is being held at a school in the small town of Kufr Ain. The group Firkat il-Shamal, or Band of the North, drove down from Jenin for the occasion. The El Haija brothers who make up the group were already among the most popular wedding singers in the West Bank, but their newest song has brought them wide acclaim.

Ala Abu El Haija sings I hail thee Nasrallah, I hail thee hawk of Lebanon; victory, victory with the help of God.

Ala Abu El Haija

El Haija says Palestinians love the song because they feel the Israeli war against the people in Lebanon was just like what’s happening to people here. He says the song talks about them just as much as it talks about the people in Lebanon. El Haija says he wrote the song after watching news reports of the Israeli missile strike in Qana, Lebanon, which killed several dozen people, including many children.

El Haija’s brother, Nuredin, says Nasrallah has become more than the leader of a single group in Lebanon.

Nuredin says Nasrallah is the only one defending the Arab cause now. He says the presence of Nasrallah makes Arabs and Palestinians nostalgic for a strong leader because he’s the only one who’s managed to take on the oppressor, Israel.And those sentiments are reflected in the song…

El Haija brothers

El Haija sings “Nasrallah responded to the calls to take vengeance as the Arab blood became hotter and hotter. The boldness and the courage that characterizes Nasrallah’s battle, says the song, is an Islamic courage. Our people are used to welcoming death.” The song’s lyrics are not heavily Islamic, but it’s clear the El Haija brothers are advocating a society based on religious values. Still the catchy music and overall Arab nationalist tone are a hit with the mostly-secular Palestinian public.

“All the Palestinian people hear it.”

“How? It is found everywhere.”

Abu Fahdi is one of the guests at the wedding.

“Everywhere. In Ramallah, in Nablus, in Hebron. In every house it is found, in every house. You know what Nasrallah represent now? He represents a very big thing. He’s the first person to say to all the world “look at Israel, how it is killing the children, the women, the people everywhere.”

Just wait till it is offered as a “ringtone”, what will the IOF do then? :) Reader of the above take note, it says clearly that the “mostly secular Palestinian people” are identifying with Nasrallah.(hence the screen savers) Yes indeed, this war on Lebanon certainly did NOT smash the resistance but only served to coalesce it. As for smashing cell phones and beating their owners, that too is serving Israel well (NOT!!) These actions are INDEED the actions of a desperate people as Sanja states