
Contra: Palestine and Israel
The two communities are not particularly close, though.
"No cross-fertilization whatsoever" between Israeli and Arab scholarship today.. James Reston, June 14th, 2001, Washington DC, Politics and ProseIt is all too easy to imagine a cop and a civilian, both using Hebrew as their second language, one Russian, one Arabic, and potentially fatal problems with a miscommunication.
There are certainly also power politics involved in the choice of languages in communications between the cops and civilians.
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