Saudi Arabian officials have “detained” a vulture on accusations of being a spy for Israel, media reports say. The griffon vulture was carrying a GPS transmitter bearing the name of Tel Aviv University, prompting rumours it was part of a Zionist plot.
Israeli wildlife officials dismissed the claims as ludicrous and expressed concern about the bird’s fate. Last month, Egyptian officials implied the Israeli spy agency Mossad was to blame for shark attacks off its coast.
The vulture, which can have a wing span of up to 265cm (8ft 8in), was caught after it landed in the desert city of Hyaal a few days ago.
When locals discovered the GPS transmitter, they suspected the worst and handed it over to the security forces, said Israel’s Ma’ariv newspaper. Conspiracy theories quickly began circulating in Saudi newspapers and on websites that the bird was involved in espionage.
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>> msbpodcast said, on January 6th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
>> We should just nuke the fucking place into a sheet of glowing glass.
msbpodcast want to commit genocide on Muslims yet, inexplicably, people claim that the Muslims are the violent ones!
#18… You didn’t read what i wrote. Zionist use the conflict. Arabist use the conflict. Islamic nutters use the conflict. Warlords use the conflict. Dictators and Arab royalty use this conflict. All profit handsomely.
Solving this conflict is the last thing any of them want.
Frankly, I don’t care who the hell used to live where. The history of man is nothing but one group over taking another. Nations and empires wax and wane. If rolling back the clock to 1945 solves everything, then why stop there? Why not kick the Europeans out of the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa? Why not restore the Persian Empire? Why not restore the Roman Empire? Why not put Pakistan and India back together? Really, where does it end?
The answer is, you don’t. You lick your wounds and you move on. Why does the current generation have to pay for the crimes of their fathers? Its been long enough. Israel has earned their right to exist. Move on. There really are more important things to worry about now.
Sometimes I think #12 might be right. Just get this damn fight over with once and for all. I’m in my 40′s and my whole frikken life has been nothing but god damn news about the god damn Palestinians. I’m sick of it.
Israel… just take over the damn place 100%, or get the hell out of there. You act like of one of those worthless boyfriends who can’t quit get to actually asking his girlfriend to marry him. This game you play is BS. We all know what you really want, so just f**king be a man, deal your hand and pay the consequences. I’m sick and tired of this never ending crap.
And regarding Jerusalem. When you have two kids who fight over a toy, the solution is to take it away from both of them. F**k both Israel and Palestine. How about this? Since you can’t f**king figure it out, then nether of you get it. It becomes a UN patrolled city state, like the Vatican, that doesn’t belong to either of you idiots. Make it a world heritage site. No one gets to live there. No one gets to claim it. It becomes a god damn museum. Until all you nutters can figure out how to share it, then no one gets it.
The real issue is Religion. The biggest obstacle to peace for over 2000 years.
Nah, I think it’s a lot of people in a historically troubled place who are reacting against a perceived notion that the Euro-Anglican West (and its “proxy” Israel) has ‘left’ them behind in things like technology and capitalist success, and ultimately wants to control them and make them allow democracy, pornography whatnot and other outrages that are not what they’re culturally used to. In other words, “I don’t want your tribe telling my tribe how to live, and also I’m tired of you implying how ashamed I should be of where I’m from, just because I’m not as technologically advanced as you.” etc. etc.
And that white man’s so called “burden”…
It’s just a lot of “Why can’t these bloody wogs speak English?” and other b.s. that did so much to get the whole folly going.
As long as conflicting cultures can’t get to trying to see how the other side feels about such things and learn to agree not to boil over about it, expect all our grandchildren (to the x- power) everywhere to have to still be mucking around in it. Oh well, guess at least I’ll be gone by then