ISRAEL ACCUSED OF TRAINING SQUIRRELS, RATS, WILD BOARS, SHARKS AND MIGRATORY BIRDS TO ATTACK THE ARABS

Turkish authorities have just uncovered what they believe to be a devious Israeli plot of using migratory birds as spies. Of course, this is not the first time ridiculous accusations have been made that Israel has been training wild animals to attack the Arabs.

In 2007, Iranian intelligence services arrested fourteen squirrels that were suspected of conducting espionage within Iran’s borders. According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the squirrels were carrying cameras, GPS equipment and listening devices. The IRNA reported that the squirrels were trained in espionage techniques and were believed to have been sent by Israel.

In 2008, the Palestinian Authority released a report by Dr. Hasan Khater, secretary-general of the Islamic-Christian Front in Jerusalem, which accused Israel of using poison-resistant rats to drive Arab residents of Jerusalem from their homes.

In 2009, the Palestinian Authority’s media outlets accused Israel of using wild boars in an engineered attack to destroy Arab crops in the West Bank.

In 2010, Egyptian authorities noted that numerous shark attacks near the Read Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, were a possible sign that Israel’s Mossad is using the deadly fish as a biological weapon, a means of harming Egypt’s tourist trade. And that same year, Iran again foiled another Israeli plot to use pigeons to spy on its uranium enrichment facility at Natanz.

TURKEY SUSPECTS DEAD BIRD IS ISRAELI SPY
By Ryan Jones

Israel Today
May 16, 2012

Turkish media this week reported that local authorities have been inspecting the carcass of a dead bird as a suspected Israeli spy. Sadly, the story is not satire, but rather another indicator of the worsening relations between Israel and Turkey, which is today prepared to believe even the most ludicrous allegations against its former regional ally.

Israel's Yediot Ahronot picked up the story on Tuesday, reporting that the bird was found dead by a Turkish farmer, who became suspicious after discovering it was wearing a leg band inscribed with the word "Israel." Of course, ornithologists regularly attach leg bands to migrating birds. And with Israel sitting right in the middle of the main Europe-Africa migration paths, such research is commonplace in the Jewish state.

According to Turkish media, the bird carcass was taken by Turkish security services, who paid special attention to the fact that one of the nostrils was larger than the other. They apparently believed the enlarged nostril was potential evidence of Mossad tampering.

Not too many years ago, such a claim would have been dismissed long before reaching official levels, let alone Turkish national media. But of late, the current Turkish regime has been conditioning its people to view Israel in the same light as many of the regional Arab states, which have been taken in by ever more bizarre conspiracy theories regarding Israel, its capabilities and its designs on the Middle East.