Hamas Members Complain About Not Meeting OneRepublic

“One selfie with us wouldn’t hurt, would it?”

Gaza City, May 29 – In the wake of a picture showing popular band OneRepublic visiting IDF soldiers manning an Iron Dome battery, Hamas militants have complained about being denied a visit by the clearly Zionist-brainwashed group.

OneRepublic  toured Israel ahead of their concert in Tel Aviv’s HaYarkon Park Thursday night, and visited an IDF base in Ashkelon a day after Islamic Jihad terrorists fired a rocket into Israel. The band members were reportedly astounded by the soldiers’ young age and said they feel safer in Israel than anywhere else.

However, the visit was not well received by everyone. Disgruntled Hamas fighters submitted a formal complaint accusing OneRepublic of anti-terrorist bias.

“So Iron Dome can shoot rockets out of the sky – big deal,” one Hamas member said. “If not for our rockets, the Israelis wouldn’t even need Iron Dome! If this pop group want to see something really impressive, we can show them our secret tunnel network that no one knows about, or our new and improved Human Dome Defense System.”

Another Hamas fighter, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said “Look, it’s not like I’m in love with Ryan Tedder or anything. But objectively, he is, as the Zionist occupiers say, ‘chatich’. One selfie with me wouldn’t hurt, would it?” Looking around furtively, he adamantly denied any implication that his feelings for Mr. Tedder represented anything more than admiration for the performer’s talent.

Previous visits by popular entertainers have been similarly colored by Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Lauryn Hill canceled a concert in Tel Aviv this past month, ostensibly because she was unable to organize one in Ramallah, but more likely, observers say, because of pressure from anti-Israel activists. Palestinians and their supporters have seethed over singers and ensembles who do appear in Israel, most recently the Backstreet Boys and Robbie Williams.

On both occasions, Hamas representatives either dismissed the performances as yet another manifestation of Israeli moral degeneracy, or cited them as yet another manifestation of discrimination against the beleaguered population of the area under Hamas control.

“It speaks volumes about Western hypocrisy that these so-called ambassadors of music claim that art and music transcend politics, while they blatantly and one-sidedly show support only for the party to the conflict that runs a democratic, multicultural society,” said a spokesman for the organization. “There’s no such thing as a field of endeavor that we Palestinians cannot exploit to produce an indictment of Israel.”

 

(h/t Zahava Raymond)