MIDDLE EAST: PEACE DUET BROADCAST SIMULTANEOUSLY ON ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN RADIO STATIONS

Record ID: 349974

  • Title: MIDDLE EAST: PEACE DUET BROADCAST SIMULTANEOUSLY ON ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN RADIO STATIONS
  • Date: 28th March 2005
  • Summary: (L!1) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (MARCH 26, 2005) (REUTERS ) (SOUNDBITE) (English) VOICE OF PALESTINE DIRECTOR BASSEM ABU SUMAYA SAYING: "Actually we think that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be solved by broadcasting this problem (song). But we believe that this could be the first step to send a message to the Israeli people that we believe in peace, we believe in a co
  • Embargoed: 12th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: JAFFA AND TEL AVIV, ISRAEL / RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: Politics,Technology
  • Reuters ID: LVAAOS84IHEHPBG0TT40ZF1RDYQ2
  • Story Text: A love song performed by an Israeli and a
    Palestinian was broadcast simultaneously at 0810gmt on
    Sunday (March 27) on Israeli Army Radio and Voice of
    Palestine Radio station in a sign of new hopes for peace
    after years of bloodshed.

    The duet "In My Heart" was sung in Hebrew and Arabic by
    Israeli David Broza and Palestinian Wisam Murad.

    "Love is a common issue, something that everybody is in
    search of. Forget peace. Love is that thing that we really
    look for," Broza said ahead of the broadcast.

    An Army Radio announcer and the head of the Palestinian
    Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) spoke on both stations,
    voicing hopes for a new era of peace.

    "We think that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot
    be solved by broadcasting this problem (song). But we
    believe that this could be the first step to send a message
    to the israeli people that we believe in peace, we believe
    in a co-operation, we believe to halt this conflict and to
    build a bridge between the two people," Voice of Palestine
    director Bassem Abu Sumaya said.

    Broza, who co-wrote the lyrics with Murad's brother
    Said during sessions in Jerusalem that started two years
    ago, is famous in Israel for his folk and rock songs. One
    of his compositions, "Under the sky", became an anthem of
    the dovish left.

    Wisam Murad belongs to to the the greater family of the
    Murads, Palestinians from Jerusalem, who are known
    internationally as part of Sabreen, a group whose songs
    have addressed the lives of Palestinians under Israeli
    occupation.
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