"Joseph Catron" <[email protected]> wrote: "According to several different eyewitnesses [Max Blumenthal] spoke to, offering corroborating accounts of different incidents, it seems that Israeli soldiers were executing a new practice during this latest Gaza war. As Max puts it: 'wanton targeting of Palestinian civilians who spoke Hebrew'."
A number of years ago a classmate from a foreign country said that in his country it was illegal to speak Jewish. It turned out that he was from Israel (his parents migrated from Russia) and by Jewish he meant Yiddish. He gave me a little history of Modern Hebrew where new words were added to ancient Hebrew to correspond to all the new things that were needed for modern conversations. He was of the opinion that Hebrew was basically a secret language that non-Israeli's wouldn't be able to understand. (Just like President Hoover spoke to his wife in Chinese to keep their conversations private in the White House). He remarked that the only word that was common between English and Modern Hebrew was "think". -- Ron
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