Queens Native Caught In Egypt Crosswinds
Tel Aviv — Egypt’s arrest of Queens native Ilan Grapel on spy allegations spurred denials from Israeli officials, family and friends, as well as speculation (in Egypt as well) that officials seized on Facebook photos of the Emory University law student from his days as an Israel Defense Forces paratrooper to pander to popular fears that the Mossad is ever-present.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called Egyptian behavior “strange” and urged the Egyptian government to fix its “mistake” and put a rest to the incident.
Meanwhile, Grapel’s mother insisted that her son was a full-time student with no ties to the Mossad. “It’s very difficult for a second-year law student to have that kind of extracurricular activity. He works in the law library to make money,” Irene Grapel told The Jewish Week Tuesday. “So he’s busy. He’s not a spy.”
Grapel, who went to P.S. 188 in Hollis Hills and the Bronx High School of Science before attending college at Johns Hopkins University, is the unlikely American Jewish kid who immigrated to Israel and joined the IDF, while cultivating a passion for Arab culture, traveling around the Middle East and reaching out to Israel’s neighbors. But now he is caught in the crosswinds of regional turmoil as the U.S. and Israel try to talk Egypt down from the espionage accusations. Did he overreach by trying to experience ground zero of the Arab Spring, Tahrir Square, for himself?
Many believe the trip, though well intentioned, was ill advised. He traveled to Egypt with a public service grant from Emory to work for a nonprofit to help in the resettlement of African refugees. But even though he entered Egypt on a U.S. passport, Grapel’s Facebook photo spread of his Israeli service exposed him to potential accusations of being an Israeli agent.
Israelis who have maintained contacts with Egyptians said that the act of fraternizing with everyday Egyptians tripped alarm bells in a country still paranoid about Israeli infiltration despite a decades-old peace treaty.
“This is a very naïve guy,” said Oded Beit Halachmy, an Israeli businessmen who has worked in Egypt for years. “You are not allowed to interfere in internal social affairs. He was involved with the common people, lower-level people. He should not have been. The assumption is always there, that if you are involved with lower-level people, you are trying to hire them for the Mossad.
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Tel Aviv — Egypt's arrest of Queens native Ilan Grapel on spy allegations spurred denials from Israeli officials, family and friends, as well as speculation (in Egypt as well) that officials seized on Facebook photos of the Emory University law
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A bus stops and drops off a mother and daughter at a British holiday resort by the sea. Which happens also to be a naturist resort. The girls frolic carefree on the beach. Mother is looking for a new man and her daughter giggles at the different shapes and sizes of the other nude bodies around her. In the evening, mother dances with the local fishmonger. Later that night she spys on them having sex, intrigued by it. In the morning she investigates the sleeping man's body, interrupted prematurely by her mother. - www.channel4.
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