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The fate of the newest song on the Jihad pop chart is indicative of the importance of new media in the Palestinian territories. Israeli soldiers tried to suppress a song praising Hasan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah of Lebanon,1 after the Palestinian press reported that it was being played in coffee shops, taxis, at weddings, and as ring tones on cell phones. The Israeli army confiscated cassettes of the song from shops and checked for them in taxis “at checkpoints that sever the limbs of Palestinian regions and separate towns and villages from each other,” as one writer put it.2
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Najjar, O.A. (2007). New Palestinian Media and Democratization from Below. In: Seib, P. (eds) New Media and the New Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605602_11
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