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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   30657 thread views

Israel-Gaza Megathread #2

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bad Palestinian accents

I don't speak Arabic, so I can't tell if it is true or not. But I also observe that there are a great many Arabic speakers who hate Israel with the passion of a thousand burning suns, so I'm not sure to what extent I can trust the reports of those who do speak Arabic either.

I’m not going to say it’s impossible it’s a fake, but the relevant Israeli departments surely have enough people on staff who have good Palestinian accents that this claim significantly raises my priors towards the debunking being fake.

I still want to believe that this is the equivalent of someone going "ching chong ding dong", but everybody in the west is too ignorant to notice, and too in awe of Mossad to believe something like that could happen.

I would hope Channel 4 got actual experts to verify and not random Arabs off the street, but admittedly my trust in media is low

The Arabic appears fine, but dont have enough of the local knowledge to know if all the words are pronounced the “palestinian” way. Same goes for the diction… :/

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