Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman, Zisel Shabtai ben Avraham) is one of the musical and cultural genius of the twentieth century's most influential with the Beatles that shaped rock music as we know it today.
In 1983 he wrote a song in support of the State of Israel, called "Neighborhood Bully," "The neighborhood bully" in solidarity with those who - both yesterday and today - was and is bravely facing a dreadful and endless zionofobia Judeophobia and internationally.
At that time, Bob Dylan had a clear picture, raw and realistic of the true situation of the State of Israel in the context of 1983 and a prophetic panorama of today.
(To paraphrase Bob Dylan)
Israel remains for those who hate "the neighborhood bully, who struggles heroically to keep surviving their enemies of yesterday, today and always.
His enemies continue falsely accusing "the neighborhood bully" to occupy their lands while numerically and get over a million to one.
is the "neighborhood bully" that really has no place in the world nowhere to hide, to retreat, which migrate and yet you are accusing of being "the bully the neighborhood. "
is the "neighborhood bully" who is still struggling as can survive by his enemies, who do not even give permission to defend himself while accusing him of the terrible sin of simply being alive when attacked is required to wait passively and be defeated and destroyed.
is the "neighborhood bully" who was expelled from his homeland for over two thousand years and of all lands while wandering wandering the world, suffer horrible persecutions, dispersions , expulsions, inquisitions, lynchings, forced conversions and genocide. Ever prosecuted for the mere fact of being born, to exist.
is the "neighborhood bully" who has survived all the great empires that have enslaved Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Grace and Rome.
is the "neighborhood bully" who was severely criticized and prosecuted as an aggressor by the logical fact destroy an atomic weapons factory that was just dedicated to destroying it.
is the "neighborhood bully" who rules the world made for him, gives them no DEAL to survive because there is always whether " a knot at the neck, a pistol his back and a maniac licensed to kill. "
is the "neighborhood bully" who " always alone and has no real friends, nobody gives anything all must pay. When harassed and threatened only the need to fix. "
is the "neighborhood bully" who is surrounded by obsequious choir of pacifists who only seek peace at any cost even the same is finally stayed on the signing of papers that have no more value So that simple roles.
"I have a beautiful voice. I do not know how to sing beautifully, and they do not want "
Bob Dylan.
(concluding with Bob Dylan)
"The neighborhood bully" "He's done a garden of paradise in the desert ... He took the crumbs of the world and turned into wealth, Took sickness and disease ... and it turned in health. "
" What has been done to have so many scars?
Did you change the course of rivers?
polluter Does the moon and the stars?
neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Ending the clock stopping time. "
We we have the great privilege of being with the legendary Bob Dylan in his only concert in Israel on June 20, 2011 in Ramat Gan Stadium, walking distance to Tel Aviv.
"Bob Dylan is like Enstein. As a divine shot. " Kris Kristofferson.
Guido Maisuls
Kiryat Bialik, Israel, IL
Kiryat Bialik, Israel, IL
http://cartasdesdeisrael. blogspot.com /
If not me who?, If not now when?
if only for me, how does it work?
(Hillel)
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