Thread by @ireallyhateyou

🧵"Until Gaza is erased"
I'm sure many of you heard of genocidal hit song Harbu Darbu (20M views on YT), but I haven't seen almost any mention of another contemporary Israeli hit song, not as popular as HD ("only" 1.8M views), but the lyrics are actually worse: "Shager" (launch)

The word "Shager" (launch), comes from the phrase "2, 3, Shager". It refers to the countdown before a drone's missile launch. Phrase was popularized in Israel after a video released by IDF spokesperson went viral. There have been many cultural references to the phrase ever since.

"Knocking on rooftops" refers to the known IDF practice, of dropping a small bomb before dropping a larger bomb on a building. It's supposed to serve as sort of an evacuation warning.

"The 10 plagues" refers to the biblical 10 plagues of Egypt.

"Plague of the Firstborn" ("Death of the Firstborn") refers to the last Plague of Egypt, when every firstborn Egyptian - young/old/male/female and livestock - died simultaneously.

"For every flower of ours we handed them a bouquet" - "flower" is military codename for casualty.

"Who's Crazy?" refers to a popular Israeli military rallying cry. A soldier or a commander would ask "Who's crazy?" and the soldiers would shout collectively "I'm crazy!"

"We wanted to dance in nature" refers to the October 7th Nova rave, where 347 civilians were massacred.

"Hope is not yet lost" refers to a line from the Israeli national anthem, "HaTikva" ("The Hope").

"Doing fauda" (said in Arabic) seems to refer both to the Israeli action TV show Fauda and to the act of "doing fauda" itself (literally "making a mess/creating chaos")

"Sublime People" ("Am Sgula") is a phrase that refers to the concept of Jews as "The Chosen People".

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