Comments on: Turkmen rap about the Palestinians

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:17:40 +0000

That cape is totally gay.

By: Arzuv

Arzuv — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:02:11 +0000

even if we do have our own problems it does not mean that we, TURKMEN can not tell others that WE ARE AGAINST ANY WAR!!!!!!!!
no matter which countries fight we will always be against violence, racism, war 4 no reason!!!!
PEACE 4 ALL NATIONS!!!
zumerchas respect!!!

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:39:47 +0000

If the turkmen really care about the palestinians, why don’t they bring them over to their country to live??

By: Vicki

Vicki — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:13:50 +0000

themicah, Perfect. I couldn’t have added anything to your comment. You are spot on, I think.

Mike, BIG LOLZ.

By: mike darnell

mike darnell — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:39:28 +0000

Nothing like a huge gilt statue to add class to a city square.

I think we should have more of those here in Israel too.

I’d start with a 30ft golden Avigdor Lieberman overlooking Rothschild boulevard in TA.

By: themicah

themicah — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:39:13 +0000

I’m most interested in why this would be a popular topic to rap about in Turkmenistan, which seemingly has its own host of problems…

Turkmen rappers are interested in Palestine precisely BECAUSE Turkmenistan has so many problems of its own. The most oppressive Muslim governments have spent the last half a century deflecting criticism of their own injustices by focusing their citizens’ wrath on the “other” that is Israel.

In any case, I wonder how much the rapper knows about the issues he raps about in this song…

As you can see from the imagery in the Youtube video, the Turkmen rapper is probably very well informed about Palestinian suffering. I’d be willing to bet, however, that you’re right that he has no clue how that suffering came to be or what the other side’s perspective is.

But to add a bit of editorializing of my own, I believe this is why Cast Lead was so misguided: it provided a treasure trove of “suffering” imagery for the propagandists who inspire (what I assume to be) earnest emotional responses like this rap.