Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "My Brother's Bomber, Part Three (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" video.

I can try to answer this question. The way Ken pronounces the last name is close to a word he would be familiar with. It is common to native English speakers who are familiar with Jewish American or Israeli culture. Please note that I am summarizing, Jewish culture is not monolithic, varying tremendously by country and religious practice. Briefly, there are different ways to practice the religious part of being Jewish. The three primary categories are reform, conservative, and orthodox. Secular Jews, those who are Jewish by identity but who do not go to synagogue or keep kosher are a large group. There are many commonalities that span the different categories. This is one of them. Hava Nagila is a song that older Jewish people are familiar with and have taught their children and grandchildren. It is played as a folk song in Hebrew in Israel and also in the United States. People dance to it at weddings and other celebrations. It is my guess that he pronounced the name this way because it was easier and seemed more familiar. The other possibility is a word that sounds very similar to what Ken was saying. It is used to describe a way of styling hair where the hair is wrapped around a woman's head to straighten it. This is more in Sephardic culture in Israel. While I was watching this I had the same thought about the name, and I wondered about the pronunciation.
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@kayhan101 When I was 17 I was living in Israel and dating a Moroccan guy. His sisters had wavy hair and they would do this thing where they would wrap their hair tightly around their heads while it was still damp to straighten it. The word they used when referring to that process was almost identical to what Ken says when he pronounces the name, Abu Hageilah. That is the term they would use. I don't know if it was a colloquialism or where it derived from but that's what they said. I lived in Israel for some years, I speak fluent Hebrew so I wasn't missing anything and when I asked I was met with a shrug. They said yes we're going to do this and they offered to do it for my hair too!
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What's your point? Are you saying that he shouldn't want to know the truth about his brother's death because the US has taken actions that it should not have? This seems to be faulty reasoning. It is wrong to bomb innocent civilians. But the wrongs committed by our country would not have any impact on a man's loss of his beloved brother and the desire to know the truth about it.
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