Okay, after an earlier posting on the shark story I came down fairly hard on a commenter who snarkily suggested the Egyptians would blame it on Israel. This being the region of self-fulfilling prophecy, of course, now the governor of South Sinai has allegedly said the shark might be a Mossad plot to undermine Egyptian tourism. Israel has apparently denied this, which is giving it more attention than it deserves.
For one thing — oh, why even argue about Mossad sharks? — but if nothing else, who do you think patronizes Sharm al-Sheikh? Mostly Europeans and . . . Israelis. It's a favorite of Israeli tourists. Could a shark distinguish?
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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Ah, but you fail to mention that Mossad would clearly issue Israeli tourists with some sort of chemical deterrent to prevent them becoming fish food.
Tourists die and Egypt can't think of anything better than to jump to anti-Israeli reflexes: http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/it-was-the-mossad-1/
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