Moddi ♫ Eli Geva

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. 

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. 

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