I'm taking a short break from Wikipedia. Devote the extra time to finishing another book. MarciulionisHOF ( talk) 06:50, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Interesting stuff:
We continue our conversation and Gideon tells me he doesn't speak Arabic. I ask him how he can write about the terrible things Israel does to the Palestinians, as he consistently does, if he does not understand the language of those he interviews. Gideon responds that his crew includes Arabic speakers for interview subjects that don't speak English or Hebrew. I remind him that people here speak in two languages, one between themselves and another with foreigners, and that if you can't speak their mother's tongue, they will sell you stories and folk tales. Even Al-Jazeera does this, and supplies two very different points of view: one for the 'brothers' in Arabic; and the other to the Westerners, in English. But Gideon, who doesn't understand Arabic at all, claims this is not the state of affairs. When I ask him if he also reports about Palestinian violations of human rights, he replies the Palestinians are not his business. - http://www.catchthejew.co.il/
I'm taking a short break from Wikipedia. Devote the extra time to finishing another book. MarciulionisHOF ( talk) 06:50, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Interesting stuff:
We continue our conversation and Gideon tells me he doesn't speak Arabic. I ask him how he can write about the terrible things Israel does to the Palestinians, as he consistently does, if he does not understand the language of those he interviews. Gideon responds that his crew includes Arabic speakers for interview subjects that don't speak English or Hebrew. I remind him that people here speak in two languages, one between themselves and another with foreigners, and that if you can't speak their mother's tongue, they will sell you stories and folk tales. Even Al-Jazeera does this, and supplies two very different points of view: one for the 'brothers' in Arabic; and the other to the Westerners, in English. But Gideon, who doesn't understand Arabic at all, claims this is not the state of affairs. When I ask him if he also reports about Palestinian violations of human rights, he replies the Palestinians are not his business. - http://www.catchthejew.co.il/