RADIO

Jerusalem’s Israeli army-run radio station has refused to play a protest song critical of Israel’s controversial policy in the occupied territories, the director of the station said this week. “It attacks Israeli soldiers,� Col. Nahman Shai said of “Shooting and Crying,� written and sung by Israeli rock musician Si Hyman. Hyman said she wrote the song after hearing about a Feb. 5 incident in which Israeli soldiers beat four Palestinians and buried them alive under two feet of dirt. “They shoot and cry, burn and laugh. When did they learn to bury people alive?� one verse of the song says. “When did they forget that our children have also been killed?� State-run Israeli radio has not banned the song, but has not been playing it, either.