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Assaf David is a doctoral candidate in the department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Israel, and research fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, also at The Hebrew University, working on the relationship between the state, society and the military in Jordan. He is also senior consultant for Jordanian affairs at the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF).
How the New Arab Media Challenges the Arab Militaries: The Case of the War between Israel and Hizbullah in 2006
One, Two / the Arab army where are you?/ The Arab army where are you?/The Egyptian Arab Army/ resides in an-Nasr [victory] compound/ Wakes up in the afternoon/ to drink its tea/ The Gulf Arab army/ can do absolutely nothing/ “Strategic silence” indeed/ “cut us some slack, man!”/ The Tunisian Arab army/ is green like parsley/ But ‘Aziza loves Yunis/ the wars can wait/ The Sudanese Arab army/ I can hear its clamor in my ears/ “Damn it!
