A Freedom Metaphor

Yet another manifestation of a state so wretchedly evil it will go to any lengths to cause problems for its neighbours.  They've been known to do such things, after all.  Surely it is more than a mere rumour that the Israeli military has been training sharks to discern between Jews and Arabs, so they may spare the former and feast on the latter? 

Now, they've done a dastardly turn with a crocodile.  Affecting its escape from a Gaza zoo and teaching it to prey on Arab farmers' livestock.

There's just no telling how low Jews will stoop, to foment problems in the world they inhabit, only for the pleasure of making life miserable for others.  Nothing whatever can be too far-fetched in anyone's wicked imagination that they will not attempt, to spread misery in an already miserable world. 

They are past masters at just that kind of thing.  Then standing back and pleading innocence, but they fool no one.

The 6-foot (1.75-metre) crocodile, Sakher, was missing from the zoo at Umm al-Naser for two years.  It hadn't gone very far, simply crept along a kilometre or so to a sewage pit near the northern Gaza Strip town.  And from there the beast terrorized local farmers and residents who insist it dined very well on their ducks and goats.

"We were afraid he would eat us", local farmer Hassan Mohammed said, piteously.

Sakher's whereabouts had been discovered only a few months previously by waste water workers.  Patience, stalking the creature for endless hours, awaiting the opportunity to snare him in nets was fruitless.  Until the idea of draining the pond, leaving him unable to evade his captors who finally netted him. 

And then finally ensconced him in a pond with four other crocodiles in a zoo under construction in nearby Beit Lahiya.

Now there's a head-scratcher.  The world has heard countless times how poverty-stricken the area is, how people are in dire straits, starving, without the necessities of life.  And in this place under these circumstances a new zoo (to complement already existing zoos) is being built. 

"We hope he lives a good life here with his wives", commented Lt.Col Samih al-Sultan, who led the capture of the crocodile.  They want him to lead a good life?  Clearly, without realizing that he has been a traitor, a turncoat working for the Israelis.This is an animal that has led a very exciting life. 

He may not think so, since he, like the Gazans, evidently feels he would be far better off not living in an enclosure that traps him and keeps him from wandering off wherever he prefers to.  Doubtless, like the Palestinians who yearn to return to parts of Israel from whence their near ancestors fled, Sakher the crocodile would prefer to return to his natural environment.

For he arrived in blockaded Gaza, insensible to what was occurring to him, drugged and unresisting, through a smuggling tunnel under the Egypt-Gaza border four years earlier.  Sakher is not finished with his work on behalf of the "occupiers"; he will find another way to foment problems for innocent Palestinians.

When the Hamas leadership discovers his double life they may offer him in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.  Far fetched, you think?