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Eli Geva was an officer serving in the Israeli Defence Force. During the siege of Beirut in 1982, he refused to lead his troops into the city because of what he termed the “excessive killing of civilians”. Shortly after he was dismissed from the army, and remains to this day a name associated with insubordination in the IDF.

Later that year, the Norwegian folk singer Birgitte Grimstad was invited to do a tour around Israel. She brought with her a new song about Eli Geva’s decision. The song, however, was not welcome everywhere. On several occations, the organisers of the concerts asked for it to be removed from the set. On the concert in Jerusalem, even the Norwegian ambassador made it clear that he would leave the room if the song was played.

ELI GEVA

The dogs of war are loose again

Cold blows the wind to me

And widows weep for fallen men

for fallen men they weep again

Cold blows the wind to me.

Again the ravens rule the skies

Cold blows the wind to me

With hacking beaks and hungry cries

With hungry cries they wheel the skies

Cold blows the wind to me.

We heard the march of army boots

Cold blows the wind to me

Until they stopped outside Beirut

Outside Beirut we heard them shoot

Cold blows the wind to me.

But a colonel who served in that army

The finest in all of the land

Said: “If they send orders for taking the town

I cannot obey their command”.

So when at last the order came

Cold blows the wind to me

The world knew Eli Geva’s name

The world knew Eli Geva’s name

stood up against that cold, cold wind

come blow his name to me.