A whole lot of listenin’ goin’ on

Posted on 09/20/2007 by Meryl Yourish

The spy ships are busy, busy, busy in Israel lately.

Espionage ships and aircraft have been causing disturbances in satellite company Yes’ broadcasts, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported Thursday.

“The disturbances began on September 6, on the day Damascus announced that IAF aircraft flew in its territory,” an Israeli expert said on Wednesday.

“Everyone wants to know what is happening, and this is the result,” he said.

Investigations carried out by Yes satellite experts revealed that the disturbances, which caused the images on the screen to freeze, were caused by radar transmissions.

“There is a jungle of powerful transmissions out there,” said one of the experts, who claimed that ships cruising in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and spy planes flying over Israel have been transmitting on all kinds of frequencies – even those that are allotted to TV broadcasts according to international treaties.

So who’s doing all the spying? Syria? Israel? The United States? Russia?

Nope.

Yes has appealed to UNIFIL and the German and Dutch embassies, who own the ships, in an attempt to resolve the problem and live in “electromagnetic coexistence”.

UNIFIL couldn’t find a Hezbollah weapons cache if they fell through the camouflage netting covering the pit, but they’re spying on Israel in the wake of the Syria attack. Gee. That makes me feel so glad that the United Nations is working for—well, the other side.

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3 Responses to A whole lot of listenin’ goin’ on

  1. Not-my-real-name says:
    09/20/2007 at 11:03 am

    Meryl said:

    “That makes me feel so glad that the United Nations is working for—well, the other side.”

    Actually I do feel better that UNIFIL is working against Israel, because they are completely ineffective.

    Still, Israel should consider bringing this to the UN.

  2. Lil Mamzer says:
    09/21/2007 at 7:00 am

    Still, Israel should consider bringing this to the UN.

    I’m hoping you meant that as an absurdist joke, given the rest of your post.

    What kills me is how Israel falls for the same UNIFIL crap every time, like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football Lucy is holding.

    Last year, as the Hezbollah war was nearing it’s end, I kept saying to myself, “Oh, no, not AGAIN”.

    Is Israel so short of options that installing the UNIFIL entity once more is the least-worst choice?

  3. Meryl Yourish says:
    09/21/2007 at 9:48 am

    Paper trail. Bringing the subject to the UN forces them to have a record of it. I don’t know if it will ever be of use, but you never can tell.

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