Song in Lieberman TV ad seems to echo Nazi anthem in ‘Cabaret,’ ‘Tomorrow Belongs to Me’

Here’s Avigdor Lieberman’s stirring ad on Israeli TV, a song sung by (the wonderful but scary) Russian Aleksandr Rosenbaum, in Russian, over Holocaust imagery and Jerusalem footage. Watch it to the end. Someone who knows a little Russki tells me the words are all about the singular beauty of Israel, its land and history…


Okay, now here’s “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” from Cabaret. No translation needed. There’s a lot about the beauty of the land here, too, its traditions, and nationalist symbols, too:

Do you hear an echo? I do.