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A YouTube video of Moammar Gadhafi pumping his fists behind a lectern, spliced alongside footage of half-naked women gyrating to rap music, has fast become an Internet sensation in the Arab world -- even though it was produced by someone in Israel.
The clip, dubbed "Zenga, Zenga," first popped up on the Internet on Wednesday, the day after the Libyan dictator gave a rambling televised speech threatening to hunt down pro-democracy protesters "house by house ... and alleyway by alleyway," or zenqa, in Arabic. His speech struck Israeli DJ Noy Alooshe as "very comic visually," Alooshe told Agence France-Presse.
"Gaddafi's speech had all the makings of a hit," he told the Israeli news website Ynet.
So he decided to mix the video of Gadhafi's speech with music from the U.S. rapper Pitbull. "Repeating the words 'zenga zenga,' his unique outfit, lifting his arms up in triumph like he's at a party -- I just added some club music to it and thought it would be a funny joke," Alooshe said.
The resulting clip went viral, spreading across social media like Facebook to reach hundreds of thousands of viewers within days.
Alooshe, whose grandparents were from Tunisia, told The New York Times he's received enthusiastic messages from all over the Arab world -- from many who didn't realize he's Israeli.
He said he even got one message from someone who purported to be a Libyan opposition leader, saying that if and when the Gadhafi regime falls, "we will dance to 'Zenga Zenga' in the square."
AOL
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