Good intentions
I'm muslim
In the series of good excuses: A man in Lebanon with a German and a Israeli passport is arrested. The Lebanese authorities think he might be a spy.
‘Sharon, who is in his early 30s, has Israeli and German citizenship and entered Lebanon on his German passport.
In an interview with the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot 11 years ago, Sharon told of how he traveled the Arab world, including Lebanon, and felt it was the most beautiful country in the world.
"I really love Arab culture, I really love Arabs and so why not live among them," Sharon said in the newspaper, which showed a picture of him wearing an Arab keffiyeh around his neck.
Sharon also told of how he decided to convert to Islam in 1994 after reading the Quran, the Muslim holy book.
"To a certain extent I feel I don't have any connection to Judaism, I'm Muslim," Sharon said.
On Sunday, his father, Moshe Sharon, told Israel's Army Radio that his son had only good intentions,’ according to Ha’aretz.
(In my modest opinion a real spy would never come up with such a crazy excuse.)
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The link to Haáretz is not working. It should be:http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/906364.html
Ilanit
Thank you. I changed it. It should work now.Why are there (almost) no spies in Belgium?
Jan T
Probably there are spies in Belgium, hasn’t NATO its headquarters in Brussels?Spy
Yes, but you (almost) never hear of arresting one of them.Jan Thys
The fact that you almost never hear about a spy having been arrested in Belgium does not necessarily indicate that there are few spies in Belgium.True. But I only wanted to state that, for example in the Lebanon, one is all too easily considered a spy; it is a common accusation in those countries. I think it has something to do with self importance and self esteem. In Belgium, no one seems to bother, but then things can change easily with our raising problems between ‘Vlamingen’ and ‘Walen’. We wait and see.
@ Jan
I don't know how to define a spy exactly. One thing I know for sure is that my family and the groups in wich my father was active were considered being dangerous to the state, so from time to time there where people surrounding us who didn't belong to the group.The people surrounding you probably belonged to the once dreadful BOB (the middle aged men in raincoats!); the were also very active around left winged groups (Amada, RAL, KP, ect…). They were specialised in gathering useless information.
BOB
@MiekeThe old issue, the left wing of our family was always complaining about the BOB poking around. Now it is good to hear the ‘other’ side.
@ Jan
I remember that complaint because of my contacts I had with communist groups in the eighties.Only recently I was informed that the house of some of the amiable contacts I had in Brussels functioned as the hide out place for members of the CCC. How small Belgium can be.
But I admit, I thought the contact with all these different groups to be very challenging.
