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GAZA STRIP - Palestinian folksinger and peace activist
Abu Adi was beaten severely by friends, family and strangers
after breaking into song during a recent stone-throwing demonstration
against Israeli soldiers.
The self-described "darker-skinned, Muslim John Lennon"
had barely gotten out the first line of "Give
Peace a Chance" when he felt a fist smash him in the
windpipe. He spun around to face his mother who then held
him down while his brothers beat him into submission.
After a brief hospital stay where doctors
and nurses salted his wounds and threw him back into the street,
Adi crawled back to his village where several neighbors greeted
him warmly and presented him with a brand new guitar as a
gift. Adi thanked them with a speech and a song by Joan Baez.
Shortly afterwards, they smashed the guitar as well as his
sternum.
"It's very difficult but I think I'm
starting to make some headway with the people out here,"
Adi whispered, as he perform a tracheotomy on himself to relieve
pressure on his windpipe. "Now I know what Vietnam must
have felt like."
Adi preaches non-violent resistence against
the Israeli occupation, but says proudly that "Israeli
citizens should be treated with the same respect and fairness
that Palestinians want I hold no ill-wishes against the people
of Israel."
"Get him!" screamed several onlookers
as Adi quickly stitched up his neck and ran for cover.
Adi's wife, Amana, a singer in her own right,
is considered to be the Muslim equivalent of Yoko Ono, and
is blamed for the folks singer's recent inability to hate
all Jews. She is also exploitive, untalented and completely
annoying.
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