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Egyptian singer famed for song 'I Hate Israel' releases new protest song

By The Associated Press

A populist Egyptian crooner who won fame for his ditty "I Hate Israel" is releasing a new song in protest against Israel' attack on Hezbollah, his production manager said Tuesday.

Shaaban Abdel Rahim's "For Only Two Soldiers," a reference to the two IDF soldiers whose July 12 kidnapping by Hezbollah sparked the three-week-old conflict, is due out on a new album, said Alaa Wahbah.

"No one else dares to make political songs like Shaaban," Wahbah said. "Even the Lebanese singers, nobody did anything."

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The former laundryman who sings a kind of Egyptian-folk rap has been widely panned by critics, but developed a huge following after the 2003 release of "I Hate Israel" and the anti-American and anti-Saddam Hussein "Hitting Iraq."

Following a similar formula, "For Only Two Soldiers" seems destined for success.

In it, he exhorts "Oh Arab men, wake up."

"One thousand times I warned of Israel, they thought I was kidding," the song opens. "The truth is now clear. Because of two soldiers, they make a big fuss.

"They forget the massacres and the millions of prisoners. I feel sad for
Lebanon and its people who were attacked and also for Palestine. Where is the voice of Arabs?"

A video clip released on the Arabic entertainment channel "Melody" shows Abdel Rahim singing while pictures of destroyed houses and bodies of children were displayed on the background.

The album should be in stores in a few days," Wahbah said.

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1.	n	18:55	\|	arthur	01/08/06

2.	Here is a better song: "I LOVE ISRAEL!"	19:11	\|	Daniel	01/08/06

3.	what is incredible is that	19:13	\|	Boris	01/08/06

4.	what is incredible is that	19:13	\|	Boris	01/08/06

5.	LOL!!! I think I cracked my ribs	19:16	\|	HL	01/08/06

6.	Protest song?	19:27	\|	Baruch	01/08/06

7.	"Only Two Soldiers"	19:35	\|	DT	01/08/06

8.	So let them waste their energies hating	20:06	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	01/08/06

9.	A Sonic Boom	20:07	\|	John	01/08/06

10.	Only 2 soldiers?	20:11	\|	bob Kay	01/08/06

11.	Job Contract	21:00	\|	Rick	01/08/06

12.	Woah!	22:29	\|	sh	01/08/06

13.	Instead of Depeche Mode?	22:31	\|	M. Duvduvani	01/08/06

14.	Israels history...	22:46	\|	Aaron	01/08/06

15.	The song fits them well. They grow up in...	22:52	\|	european	01/08/06

16.	How sad, could have been used to promote peace, not ignorant hate	22:54	\|	David	01/08/06

17.	#10 couldnt of put it better myself	23:13	\|	the 1st born	01/08/06

18.	still better than John Tesh	23:39	\|	paul	01/08/06

19.	# 2	23:49	\|	Yorki	01/08/06

20.	arab men	23:53	\|	concerned arab	01/08/06

21.	lol,lol,lol,	23:54	\|	simon	01/08/06

22.	i just made up a great song	23:55	\|	simon	01/08/06

23.	i have another hit song	23:56	\|	simon	01/08/06

24.	Differences	00:12	\|	Elyah	02/08/06

25.	#15, concerned arab	00:28	\|	Alex	02/08/06

26.	I hate laundry! LOL!	05:31	\|	Yoel	02/08/06

27.	He is a great artist with alot of balls	21:39	\|	max	31/08/06

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