Ho aggiunto quest'altra traduzione. I testi dei Pearl Jam non sono facili da tradurre, come testimoniano le molte differenze tra queste due versioni.

La seconda sbaglia clamorosamente secondo me su "drilling for fear makes the job simple" che è secondo me un chiaro riferimento alla politica di Bush disfruttare la paura del terrorismo. Però nella seconda viene segnalato il calembour della parola "party" che può voler dire festa ma anche partito.

Note (English) from http://gstocchi.web.planet.it/la.htm

Tall el Zaatar, the Hill of Tyme, was a Palestinian refugee camp in the eastern zone of Beirut, in the Ashrafied neighborhood. It was controlled by the right-wing Libanese militia and the so-called Cristian gangs.

At the begining of the civil war, on the 10th of April 1974, between the Palestinian- Libanese Progressive Muslims Coalition on one hand and the Fascists right-wing Cristians on the other, the refugee camp, repeatedly bombed, never the less managed to resist for more than two years. It's final fate was marked by the treachery of the Sirian president Hafez el Assad. With the pretext of defending the palestinians, he circled his tanks around the camp. Fearing that a possible victory of the Libanese Progressive-Palestinian Coalition would change the equilibrium of the region, he there by supported the right-wing Libanese fraction.

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Ho appena inserito la versione in milanese cantata da Nanni Svampa di questa divertente canzone, ma mi sorge spontanea una domanda: cosa c'entra con il "contro la guerra"?