• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    TIL Hebrew speakers pronounce Hamas as Khamas and that spelling is used to make fun of them. I thought it was a legit alternate spelling

      • Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
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        2 months ago

        The k makes it sound more islamic and triggers western audience’s latent islamophobia

        With all due respect, I don’t think it’s the K-sound that triggers the “western audience’s latent islamophobia”.

        That probably has more to do with the news from England and Germany.

    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s probably just an alternate pronunciation.

      Considering that country names are different in different languages, I don’t see much of a problem with it.

      If the last sentence made you go “?” Check the

      • Chinese language name for China
      • Japanese name for Japan
      • Indian language names for India
      • But also what China, Japan and India have names for other countries and even alternate names for historical personalities in their languages. In some cases, even regional languages will have other alternate names.
    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The Hebrew letter Chet does indeed correspond to the Arabic letter ح which makes the hard H sound. Since most Hebrew speakers cannot pronounce it, the closest sound to them is KH (also represented by the letter Kuf, Arabic equivalent is خ), thus when they try to pronounce “Hamas”, they end up saying “KHAMASSS”. And no, Chet is not the only Hebrew letter affected by a sound change like this, but it’s the relevant one because it’s used in the Hebrew spelling of “Hamas”.

      Hope that makes it make more sense.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    We should honestly just replay their media with subtitles or voiceover in western media. Make people watch them saying this shit on the evening news and get their kids to cry because of the evil man in the TV.

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    2 months ago

    My understanding is that it’s difficult to prevent kids from dieing when the dudes you are trying to get revenge on from killing your family keeps hiding behind kids.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      My understanding is that it’s difficult to prevent kids from dying when you bomb every school, children’s hospital, aid center, and potential Palestinian you see.

      Maybe ease up on the genocide and warcrimes rather than crying there’s nothing you can do as you gleefully kill tens of thousands of people in a population that’s mostly children as you scream that they’re animals and you want a second bigger Amalek. Maybe don’t enforce an apartheid ethnostate, maybe don’t seize peoples’ land at gunpoint. Maybe as the global center of Judaism, you should showcase Jewish values rather than missile striking 4 day old newborns.

      • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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        2 months ago

        That’s my point though: they keep bombing hospitals and schools looking like absolute monsters, but the guys they are targeting are purposefully hiding in those places like cowards and monsters knowing full well those kids will die with them and add fuel to the fire. What kinds of heroes and freedom fighters use kids as shields?

        • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          They keep doing monstrous things and it makes them look like monsters?

          Maybe stop doing those monstrous things.

          Israel isn’t looking to give up its mantle as the crybully champion of the world any time soon.

          If justifiable self-defence by Israel looks like 40,972+ dead Palestinians (mostly civilians as we know) in response to 1,478 dead Israelis, what would justifiable Palestinian self-defence look like? I’ll remind you that as a current or former member of the IDF, every Israeli adult is an enemy combatant.