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Why Israeli Children Need To Learn Arabic at an Earlier Age
The Forward ^ | February 23, 2017 | Aviya Kushner

Posted on 02/25/2017 1:24:40 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 02/25/2017 1:24:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I got a better idea. Arabs learn Hebrew or leave.


2 posted on 02/25/2017 1:29:03 PM PST by cyclotic (Republicans Are without excuse. Flood the Resolute Desk with sane legislation.)
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Do the Arabic residents of Israel feel compelled to learn Hebrew??????


3 posted on 02/25/2017 1:29:05 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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The arabs should be required to speak Hebrew.


4 posted on 02/25/2017 1:29:34 PM PST by onedoug
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Maybe if people understand each other on a word level, they will find common interests,” Lam writes. “Maybe it will even be possible to solve some divisions with the help of words.”

Like this division? "Oh, Muslim, there is a jew hiding behind me, come slay him!"

5 posted on 02/25/2017 1:31:22 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Why, so they can hear their killers coming at them sooner?

NBC = Nothing But Counterfeit


6 posted on 02/25/2017 1:33:15 PM PST by Jim W N
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You need a common language, not a bunch of equal different languages.

The Austrian empire greatly increased their ethnic problems when Latin was dropped as the common administrative language in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.


7 posted on 02/25/2017 1:36:18 PM PST by MUDDOG
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Go to the West Bank and every street is in Arabic, named after a suicide bomber who killed Jews.


8 posted on 02/25/2017 1:38:13 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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That's my fault. I asked to have it changed. It is from The Jewish Forward
9 posted on 02/25/2017 1:42:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
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The common language in India has been English since the 1830s. Before that it was Farsi. (Persian)


10 posted on 02/25/2017 1:44:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
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The US is headed toward Babel with Mexicans leading the charge.


11 posted on 02/25/2017 1:45:53 PM PST by umgud
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If she wants to learn Arabic she should learn Arabic. Nobody is stopping her. Leftists always want to push their personal agenda on others, regardless of how the others feel about it.


12 posted on 02/25/2017 1:48:19 PM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Many of them do. I live in Jerusalem, and every day I interact with arabs in the grocery stores, hotels, working as dentists, taxi drivers, etc. They all know Hebrew


13 posted on 02/25/2017 1:50:07 PM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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Thanks Nick. Lends a little more credibility to the story.


14 posted on 02/25/2017 1:58:37 PM PST by Jim W N
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They’re lucky to have English!

I think Ireland was crazy to resurrect Gaelic.

In the Austrian empire, Joseph II, an 18th-century “enlightened despot,” replaced Latin with German in the 1780’s (because he was a modernizer and thought the Germans were the most advanced nationality in the empire), although Latin was still used in the Hungarian part until the 1840s.

At which point the Hungarians, realizing that their language was difficult to learn, replaced Latin with Hungarian to keep Germans from other parts of the empire out of the gov’t jobs.

Overall in the empire, the dropping of Latin for a modern language of a particular ethnic group, made the other ethnic groups more aware of being different, and led to much greater conflict.


15 posted on 02/25/2017 2:04:58 PM PST by MUDDOG
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I was told that the initial plan was to replace English with Hindi after 15 years (after independence) but the people in southern India who speak one of the Dravidian languages objected to Hindi (an Indo-European language) and preferred English.


16 posted on 02/25/2017 2:06:37 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Used to be there was something like a million Israeli Jews who came from families that spoke Arabic as a first language.

I suppose some libtards in the Israel government finally noticed that the descendants of those refugees from Arabic-speaking countries didn’t keep it up as a first or even second language. I’m sure there will be a bureaucracy with nice patronage jobs added to alleviate this problem.


17 posted on 02/25/2017 2:16:11 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Another leftist Israeli with a suicide wish, and near total ignorance of what Islam is and will do to him and his family etc. Here we have brains full of mush; there, they have brains full of taqyyia.


18 posted on 02/25/2017 2:28:01 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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What a cunningly clever idea. One language for all the commerce and daily social exchange within the country.

Other countries should try it as well. Start with Canada....


19 posted on 02/25/2017 2:28:02 PM PST by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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The only reason to learn Arabsick is to know what evil they may be plotting against you.


20 posted on 02/25/2017 2:58:17 PM PST by soycd
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