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Mai and Amane, Arab Israeli teenagers living in Nazareth, are happy to leave talk about boys and make-up to their peers. They have a political message and they're telling it through rap music.
The girls, only 15 and 16, make up the duo "Damar" -- Arabic for "destruction" -- whose mission is to expose what they say is the routine discrimination they experience growing up as part of Israel's Arab minority.
"We don't hate Jews," says Zarqawi. "We hate the idea of how Zionism came and took over our land and our culture and left us nothing."
They refuse to identify themselves as Arab Israeli, but rather as Palestinians living in Nazareth, home to some 72,000 people.
Although they hold Israeli nationality, Arab Israelis in practice remain second-class citizens, with the sector receiving far fewer government resources for health, education and economic development.
They struggle to maintain their cultural and political identity as Palestinians in a Jewish state where any expression of Arab national sentiment is viewed as a threat.
Arab teens rap out angry politics in Nazareth - Yahoo! News
The girls, only 15 and 16, make up the duo "Damar" -- Arabic for "destruction" -- whose mission is to expose what they say is the routine discrimination they experience growing up as part of Israel's Arab minority.
"We don't hate Jews," says Zarqawi. "We hate the idea of how Zionism came and took over our land and our culture and left us nothing."
They refuse to identify themselves as Arab Israeli, but rather as Palestinians living in Nazareth, home to some 72,000 people.
Although they hold Israeli nationality, Arab Israelis in practice remain second-class citizens, with the sector receiving far fewer government resources for health, education and economic development.
They struggle to maintain their cultural and political identity as Palestinians in a Jewish state where any expression of Arab national sentiment is viewed as a threat.
Arab teens rap out angry politics in Nazareth - Yahoo! News