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The problem they face, is it has become a well-known tradition in American (and Western) journalism, going at least back to the hostage crisis in 1979. If they
by skissane 4y ago
The problem they face, is it has become a well-known tradition in American (and Western) journalism, going at least back to the hostage crisis in 1979. If they change the translation now, people will attack them as pro-Iran/pro-regime/etc. It is possibly an even bigger problem when it comes to the use of the phrase against Israel; I wouldn’t be surprised if a change of translation in that context got labelled as anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, even antisemitic. The politically safest course is just to keep on doing what you’ve always done