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Originally Posted by Jim B.
The Palestinian Prime minister disavowed what the Mickey Mouse character on Al-Aqsa TV said, plain and simple, it seems to me. The media simply reported that fact.
And HE understands Arabic pretty well, reads it and writes it as well as speaks it. He's pretty sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, too.
I just picked the German paper Der Speigel as the first one I saw on Google, that's all.
It's the same story on MSMBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18580878/ His disavowal was widely reported, I saw it on BBC World news also.
Understanding Arabic might be very helpful in parsing out the subtle nuances
of what is being said, it's true, but not always needed to get the basic message.
I don't think the Israelis need to understand Arabic to get the message when rockets are being lobbed at them from the Gaza strip.  |
Will it would probably require a good understand of Arabic to know the difference between say, Kill jews, and Killed a jew, the message is still the same.
Of course the Prime Minister is going to defend it, Joseph Goebbels defended the Nazi's till his death as well.