Arabic translation pasted into InDesign from Google Translate?

When I copy from Google Translate, paste into InDesign, and convert to Geeza Pro (an Arabic font in InDesign), the characters come in reverse order. Example in English: Google Translate = WEATHER (correct). After it's pasted into Indesign and converted to an Arabic font: REHTAEW (not correct). I know this has to do with the right to left reading. Is there a way to fix this since I have an entire business system I need to design and I can't spend the time to alter each word in InDesign after it's translated.

I'm running CS5.5. Yes ... I know I should upgrade, eat more whole foods, and less alcohol.
I do 100% of my Arabic work in CS4, with ye olde version of World Tools. There's nothing for you in upgrading to CS6; CS5.5 has every scrap of functionality you need. The javascripts you found on that old Thomas Phinney blog-posting will do 85% of the things that the World Tools plugin will do, and I think you probably don't need the other 15% if I understand your project correctly. If you need to make booklets with the spine on the right, you'd need InDesign ME or World Tools. Otherwise I think you will be just fine using those scripts.
(If you are a menu-driven type who can't stand a lack of visual feedback, then World Tools is worth every penny. One of the drawbacks of the scripting solution is that there's no obvious check-mark next to "Direction: Right To Left" if you're just using the scripts.)

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