“Zenga Zenga,” Israeli YouTube video, mocks Gaddafi

A YouTube music video mocking Libya's defiant leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has become a huge hit in the Arab world.

The video, "Zenga Zenga," was made by 31-year-old Israeli music journalist and blogger Noy Alooshe. It uses modified music from "Hey Baby," a song by American rappers Pitbull and T-Pain. Words from Gaddafi's televised speech have replaced the lyrics, reports Reuters.

The video shows repetitious clips of Gaddafi from his televised speech on a balcony in Tripoli last week in which he vowed to die a martyr for the country and encouraged Libyans to go into the streets and attack anti-government demonstrators.

"When I saw Gaddafi speaking it struck me that his cadence and his movements were perfect for a clip. It was so musical," Alooshe told Reuters.

Libyans use for word "zenga" for small neighborhood. This word stood out for Alooshe as he watched Gaddafi's speech.

In the video, Gaddafi raps that he will clean Libya “inch by inch, house by house, room by room, alley by alley.”

As Gaddafi pounds his fist on the podium, clips of a girl dancing in skimpy boxer briefs and a tank top play in each bottom corner. Alooshe told Reuters the girl on each side of Gaddafi represents his famed female bodyguards.

The video has been viewed almost 2 million times on YouTube. Another video, without the bikini-clad ladies, was also made.

The Jerusalem Post reports that the Arabic comments on the video mostly discuss whether it is permissible to enjoy humor by an Israeli.

"Of course there were those who hurled the usual abuse and I was even branded a Mossad spy, but I have many friend requests pending for my Facebook page," Alooshe said.

Read about Gaddafi's original speech. In it, he says: "I am a fighter, a revolutionary from tents … I will die as a martyr at the end."

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