The stuff journalists don't want you to see
Claire Berlinski ·
Jun 15, 2010 at 1:59am
This was perhaps not the most triumphant moment of my journalistic career:
Mr. Feiler (Gaza flotilla passenger): ... But let me continue. They took us one by one, to a room. And in this room was sitting an officer. So the soldiers were all in their masks, totally masked, you cannot see. One of the soldiers, he had no arms at all, he was a Mossad guy. He had no arms.
Claire: You mean—he literally—you mean he was an amputee?
Mr. Feiler, Mr. Plionis: No! No! He had no arms! No arms.
Claire: He was unarmed.
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May '10
Re: The stuff journalists don't want you to see
Thank Heav'n we cleared that up. The British Empire used to employ amputees regularly (consider Lord Nelson), but it would be darned sneaky of the Mossad to do so. Clearly this calls for an Edward Gorey limerick:
A guest in a household quite charmless
Was told its eccentric was harmless:
"If you're caught unawares
At the top of the stairs
Just remember, he's eyeless and armless."
May '10
Re: The stuff journalists don't want you to see
Claire, dear, thank you for a hearty laugh! I, too, was picturing a IDF amputee...
May '10
Re: The stuff journalists don't want you to see
Thank you sincerely for the morning laugh. As a former German language teacher, I can appreciate the misunderstandings. Ironically, I once told my German host family during my university study that we Americans ate "Turkei" on Thanksgiving, not realizing their words for the nation and the bird are completely different.
May '10
Re: The stuff journalists don't want you to see
It immediately brings to mind this bit from Monty Python, of course. The relevant part begins around the 2:50 mark.
Edited on Jun 17, 2010 at 1:10am