A vulture tagged by scientists at Tel Aviv University has strayed into Saudi Arabian territory, where it was promptly arrested on suspicion of being a Mossad spy, Israeli and Saudi media reported Tuesday. The bird was found in a rural area of the country wearing a transmitter and a leg bracelet bearing the words ‘Tel Aviv University’... Although these tags indicate that the bird was part of a long-term research project into migration patterns, residents and local reporters told Saudi Arabia's Al-Weeam newspaper that the matter seemed to be a ‘Zionist plot.’ The accusations went viral, with hundreds of posts on Arabic-language websites and forums claiming that the Zionists’ had trained these birds for espionage. The Sinai regional governor last month suggested that 'Is The Guardian ‘disproportionately preoccupied’ with Israel?' Is the Pope a Catholic? And to which Middle Eastern newspaper does the Guardian disproportionately turn to feed its obsessive animus? Three guesses. Two Palestinians were charged by a court on Sunday with planning a rocket attack on Teddy Stadium, home to the Beitar football team. Three more Palestinians, two of them maintenance men employed by the British Consulate General, were arrested on suspicion of supplying them with guns. The Telegraph adds: The Consulate-General plays an important political role in Israeland would be considered a major terrorist target, in common with diplomatic posts elsewhere in the Middle East. Really? Unlike the British Embassy which represents the British government to Israel, the Consulate-General, which is sited in East Jerusalem, represents HMG to the... In one sense at least, Nigel will live on. A five-second audiofile of his bloodcurdling scream has been downloaded thousands of times, with some listeners planning to use it as their mobile phone ringtone. Such, at the start of 2011, is the condition of the British mind.
Wednesday, 5th January 2011
Israel's secret agent
12:38pm
Our allies the Saudis have demonstrated once again how deeply connected they are to reality. Ha’aretz reports:
...Motes and beams
12:36pm
Ha’aretz asks, given that the Guardian discloses that Israel came fifth on its list of foreign sovereign countries most tagged on its website in 2010:Tuesday, 4th January 2011
Gun-running for Hamas at the British Consulate-General?
10:55am
Two Arab maintenance men employed by the British consulate in Jerusalem have been arrested for being part of a planned Hamas terrorist attack on a sports stadium in the city. The Telegraph reports:An everyday story of British folk
10:47am
The Archers, an iconic BBC radio soap-opera, featured on Sunday a much-hyped -- but ultimately bathetic – plot development in which a venerable character, Nigel Pargetter, fell to his death from an icy roof. The Telegraph reports:
Thursday, 6 January 2011
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