You are right. Arabic speakers don't say Balestine.

The say Filistin - in English it sounds like Filisteen.

There is no "P" in Arabic. I think we have established that fact.

I hope I sound calm because this is an issue to be discussed not argued over.

As I suggested, listen to several Hebrew speakers speaking English then listen to several Arabic speakers speaking English. You can argue on a variety of points but if you listen to four other samples of Hebrew speakers the voice on this recording will match them.

It is clear that this man is a native Hebrew speaker.

Are there native Arabic speakers able to pronounce an English "P" sound?

Of course.

However this man has a fairly strong accent, in this case a Hebrew accent and if Hebrew had no "P" sound, which it does, then you would expect a Hebrew man with this level of accent to mispronounce the "P" sound to at least some degree but he doesn't because he is a native Hebrew speaker and Hebrew does include a "P" sound.

Native Arabic speakers roll their "R's". Native Hebrew speakers tend to pronounce the "R" sound as a slight "RW" combination.

Listen again to the way this Hebrew speaker says "airport".

There was an Israeli citizen onboard the plane if we can believe anything released by the 9/11 Commission.

His name was Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin.

It would be easy to claim that "Danny" was the Hebrew speaker who left his vocal imprint on this famous recording but I wouldn't make that claim because "Danny" was born in the USA and moved to Israel after he lived in the US for a number of years and linquistically would probably not have an accent like the one we hear on this recording.

Someone else can translate "can of worms" into Hebrew but based on the last statement there is evidence that there were at least two Israeli's on the plane.

"Danny" was supposedly stabbed by a hijacker. Does that mean an Israeli man who happened to have been in an elite Israeli military unit that was tasked with counter-hijacking was trying to save the home of his birth fighting the men headed by the Hebrew speaker and thus against his adopted nation?

Or, was "Danny" one of the hijackers. Was he stabbed by a brave and patriotic American who did not move to Israel with his family when he was a kid?

I say stabbed here but the evidence suggests that someone may have been shot.

Remember, at least one person who reported the hijacking used the word Middle Eastern to describe the men. Israelis are Middle Eastern - they keep telling us they are at least.

"Danny" supposedly was sitting right near the hijackers or was he a hijacker?

If you believe the official story you have to admit that a former elite Israel military officer perhaps trained to handle this very sort of event was stabbed or shot pretty well right off the bat by a complete rank amateur with no military experience as part of a team headed by an urban planning graduate.

If a man was in a job interview to work at Home Depot he might try to hide his accent but...

I think that a person involved in, literally the crime of the century, about to die, who didn't know his voice was
being recorded would be thinking about several dozen things but not about pronouncing "P's".

Granted, he does sound calm and professional and I think he was a professional military commando because amateurs just can not pull off operations like 9/11.

It would be interesting to put this recording through voice stress analysis to determine how much stress the person was under.

Originally posted by BRAVO949
If a man was in a job interview to work at Home Depot he might try to hide his accent but...

I think that a person involved in, literally the crime of the century, about to die, who didn't know his voice was
being recorded would be thinking about several dozen things but not about pronouncing "P's".

Granted, he does sound calm and professional and I think he was a professional military commando because amateurs just can not pull off operations like 9/11.

It would be interesting to put this recording through voice stress analysis to determine how much stress the person was under.

Linguistic overcompensation is automatic. Hence the clear addition of the "P". Glad you agree that the "P" in plane and airplane were clearly and markedly pronounced. Not like someone who regularly uses the sound in their native speaking, say if they spoke Hebrew.

He sounds calm and professional because he was suicidal.

Sounds israeli to me..!!

Regardless of what hoopers opinion is.

The native Hebrew speaker in this case pronounces his "P's" exactly like every other native Hebrew speaker pronounces his "P's".

The native Hebrew speaker does not over pronounce them and if you would take a moment to listen to a few other native Hebrew speakers speaking English that fact would become clear to you.

Someone who is an expert on Hebrew accents could probably tell you that this man was from Tel Aviv or Haifa and might even be able to tell you when he learned English and whether he lived in the US say as part of his commando training for example.

BTW, "Linguistic overcompensation" is not only not automantic it is not a term used in linguistics but it does sound kind of cool so I might use it but I will give you credit for it - deal?

Whoever the man is and I think we can say Israeli man after all this discussion he is familiar with English to the extent that he uses idioms. In this case "don't do anything stupid."

Again, he has a strong accent but his grammar is good and he uses idioms which may indicate "linquistically" but not automtically that he spent some time around people who speak idiomatic English.

At least 10% of the Jewish Israeli population speak English fluently and idiomatically so it is reasonable that an Israeli hijacker, if that is what this man was, would throw in an idiom or two.

Neat ^^ Do you have examples of arabic accents too? I didnt find any good ones on youtube. I admit to not putting too much effort in it though :p .

That is something you could have done hooper instead of pouting seen as you seem convinced that aint an hebrew accent although you wont share why.

As a native English speaker would say, "What is good for the goose is good for the gander."

The recording in question was played before the 9/11 Commission panel and presented as part of the evidence supporting the official story of what transpired on September 11, 2001.

The reason I mention this specifically is in case anyone wants to question this evidence and say that it is not from 9/11 or it was not from a plane involved in the infamous acts committed on 9/11.

Of course you are free to say anything, claim anything and ask anything but if you question the legitimacy of this recording you are questioning the official story of 9/11.

I am not saying anyone here is questioning the legitimacy of this recording but for the sake of honest discussion now that we have all seen that there is solid evidence that the voice on this recording is that of an Israeli and therefore there is evidence (I am not claiming that this is conclusive proof) that at least one Israeli was involved in the actual hijacking, that the whole recording can be thrown out.

If this recording was good enought to implicate 19 men from a cave with box-cutters it is good enough to implicate experienced Israeli military special forces operatives.