@444xan@GeoPhDklein@derJamesJackson Furthermore, Modern Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew are to a very high degree mutually intelligible; Arabic and Modern Hebrew are almost completely unintelligible to each other.
Your assertion that Modern Hebrew is based on Arabic is complete horseshit.
@444xan@GeoPhDklein@derJamesJackson Having loanwords from another language is not the same thing as being based on that language.
Typhoon, tsunami, and tycoon are all loanwords from Japanese into English; are you going to try and pretend that English is "based" on Japanese?
@ClassCalamity @GeoPhDklein@derJamesJackson 1. The majority of Israelis are of Mizrahi descent.
2. Mizrahi didn't speak Yiddish
3. Yiddish is a living language, with about three million speakers, for many of whom it is their primary language.
@Bonesdrawstuff Impossible to answer without first defining what one is attempting to survive.
Offhand I find it hard to imagine what I might need a bullpup assault rifle and not one but two knives (as opposed to a knife and maybe a multitool) for in any non-action-movie-related scenario.