{"id":118286,"date":"2025-01-08T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118286"},"modified":"2025-01-08T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:52:54","slug":"10-05-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118286","title":{"rendered":"War Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>War Songs<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Dana Kessler<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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How Israeli pop music has captured the national zeitgeist since Oct. 7<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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\nEden Golan, who represented Israel at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest<\/em><\/span>
\nShai Franco<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Israel is a nation of many wars and many war songs. Each war is accompanied by songs\u2014period hits written in real time, folk or pop songs that capture the zeitgeist and the ethos of a particular war. If they are eventually admitted into the cultural canon, they will forever remind us of that war\u2014like Naomi Shemer\u2019s \u201cYerushalayim Shel Zahav<\/a>,\u201d for example, which will always be connected in our minds to the Six-Day War. Whether they\u2019re pro-war, anti-war, memorial songs, or descriptions of life during wartime or on the battlefield, war songs are an integral part of Israel\u2019s music, in every genre of popular music.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Oct. 7 war, of course, is no different. YouTube is filled with playlists dedicated to it: songs about lives lost, fighting songs, songs longing for the hostages\u2019 return. Over a year has passed since its beginning, and the songs just keep piling up. Here are 10 examples.<\/span><\/p>\n

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