I’m half-way tempted to join FB to get a look at it, but… anyway.

Stepping back a bit, with populations rubbing up against each other in such important ways, you expect a least a little familiarity with basic things like: hello, what does this cost, where’s the toilet, etc. — especially (especially!) among police and security.

As for translation, I’m still wondering why a translator wouldn’t just parse the Unicode.

Arabic in Israel:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language_in_Israel

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Dean, I don’t think much wondering is involved.

Hit and run is where you run into something with a vehicle then drive away without checking on what/whom you hit.

OvAp: I don’t know what the original actual phrase was. So, I just used “Good Morning”

Absent any more information, the conclusion to reach was that the police were looking for any reason to detain him (probably any other Palestinian as well) for any reason, valid or not. Sort of a continuation of the asinine stop and frisk policy the police in NYC used to use, but one with potentially far more serious consequences.

And they wonder why their actions are so strongly condemned.

As I refuse to join the cult of Zuckerberg, I can only speculate about what was going on at FB. But if the Arabic phrase used was the one that Greg has pasted into his post above, it’s a standard version of ‘good morning’ used pretty much anywhere in the Arab world. It doesn’t sound like anything in English except maybe, “So bah! ill hair!” As for the transliteration, it may resemble who-knows-what if you translated it back into some other random language — but why would you do that? There’s either something missing here, or it’s just a bunch of weirdness so far as I can see.

Die Bart Die, is just German for The Bart, The.

(Bulldozers are symbolically charged on all sides for a whole variety of reasons, btw.)