Haaretz's Dubai look-alike: Even my mother asked if I'd been abroad
Haaretz education correspondent wakes up to find he's the spitting image of an alleged assassin.
By Or Kashti Tags: Israel newsBetween the tomatoes and eggplants in my local supermarket yesterday, just as I finished loudly blowing my nose and cursing my recent allergy attacks, an elderly woman approached me and tapped my shoulder. "Good for you," she said. "You showed those Arabs."
I nodded in agreement, quickly put away the tissue and straightened my back. After all, my new position as a high-ranking Mossad agent requires a certain dignified mien.
The first phone call came at 8 A.M., when my mother asked gently if I had recently been abroad. Then others called, congratulating me on the outstanding cover story I'd chosen as Haaretz education correspondent, and asking why I hadn't brought them cigarettes from the Duty Free in Dubai.
Walking the streets, I noticed people were looking at differently - or at least that's what I told myself.
My wife, of course, was less impressed by my appearance in newspapers the world over as "Kevin Daveron," a supposed Irishman named by Dubai police as commander of the assassination squad sent to eliminate Hamas strongman Mahmoud al-Mabhouh at his hotel in the emirate.
She wasn't moved by the congratulatory phone calls or public adulation. Nor was her mind set at ease by the Government Press Office pass I produced from my wallet, which confirms beyond a doubt the uncanny similarity between my appearance and Daveron's.
I even told my little girl about Daddy's new job - it'll probably win her some points at day care. It will be interesting to see what people say on Parents' Day.
I never wanted to be a Mossad agent, but if I've already joined that vaunted organization, I'm glad to have leapt straight into a commanding position. It has many advantages and, for now, few obligations. Yes, I'm starting to thoroughly enjoy my imaginary profession.
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Left: Suspected Dubai assassin 'Kevin Daveron'. Right: Haaretz correspondent Or Kashti |
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Just because we flout international law and assassinate people? Just because we counterfeit passports from other countries? Just because our politicians think they can get away with it because it can't be proven? Just because many of our citizens seems to think that assassination of other nation's leaders are okay? We poor, mistreated Jews. The world is so unfair.
and facing the few innocents later than it is to forge foreign passport and face diplomatic outrage.
eyeing him disapprovingly and saying" tsk, tsk". After all, what does such an operation achieve in the long run?
Silly man. What would he do if some nut case decides to take revenge? The real Daveron won't be so quick to skite about his 'new job' when it is proved Mossad did not do it... unless he is proud to be a 'Hamas recruit.'
what ever organisation have done this have to know is the begining of their end the trace the left behand is just to much not like proffesionals
I'm so confused as to why the assassins used the identies of actual Israel citizens. Did they find ones that they looked like? Why did they do this? Did they use fake names or the names of actual Israeli citizens. The assassins had to look like the forged passports, so why do they also apparantly look like actual citizens? Is this just a case of everyone has a twin somewhere? Am I the only person who is lost on this?
I don't see where they look alike!?!?!?!?!
You take what one woman said and brush every Israeli person with it. Who's doing the stereotyping now?
The ears are clearly different. The "crown," the upper skull area is also different. The eye-glasses are very similar. Harry
The reason why we are constantly at war in the ME [Arabs killing Arabs killing Jews Killing Arabs merry go round] is that nobody here has a sense of humour..and with out a sense of humour you will never have a peace and dont deserve peace.This was a humourous article [ok maybe a little black humour] about a typical EVERYDAY Middle East spy murder thriller that sells huge amounts of copy world wide as the mystique of the MOSSAD is involved. 100 DEAD every week in Bagdad as Arabs butcher Arabs has become very boring...world wide..even in Bagdad and sells no newspapers....
it is.
The solution in 1948 would have been for the local population to all move north, east, and south to make room for the world's decision as voiced by the UN. But I guess it's too late for that now. The solution at this point might be along the lines of how the West was won, total warfare, and winner take all. Or it might be along the lines of an Arab Renaissance where they accept a state within about 95% of the 67 cease fire lines, and develop a national, rather than tribal outlook. That would take a leader that has not yet emerged. I don't really know what the solution will be. But thanks for asking.
What an ego this guy's got!
laughing about murder?is murder funny?it seems like the us-israeli axis has turned into murder incorporated.is this evidence of a higher civilization?or a lower one?
"so what`s the solution you think?" I don't have all the answers. But when I receieved a written reprimand at work, the only one to come to my defense was a Palestinian Muslim. She drew me aside and said sotto voce, "It's semitism." You would think she would hate my guts. If she came to my defense, you can take it to the bank. Another time I had an asthma attck in an Arab's home. If I stopped breathing, could you imagine the headlines? "Jewish man found dead in Arab's house." Explain THAT to the NJ State Police.
I'm the only person that can say that. I have already recommended to the FBI that they install Iris Scanning Software at the entrances to all offices. There exists organizations that abuse the Doppelganger Effect. Protect yourselves. Trust no one unless they have been scanned. PS. Don't start killing each other. That's what they want everybody to do. Well... those are my limits. Now, I will make a prediction. Within a year's time, this bit of information will be relegated to the X-files and there will be war. Either intentionally or unintentionally. It's difficult to combat these people. They're not a government by the way. They're in the business of something and you better hope to God that one of them is not your Doppelganger. Please don't walk into a Gas Chamber Israel. I'll never let the Jewish People down. Saved the World twice already. Going for a third round. Hang in there Bradley and give that poor Auschwitz cat a home.
Are you insane? you look nothing like him. Are you really that egocentric that you would invent this story for absolutly no other purpose than self-publicity?
At least you got another story to write about.
joinig Livni on holiday on the shores of the Kinneret. Looks like it is going to get very crowded.
Racism (look it up anywhere) = the form of prejudice based on difference in race. Jews and Arabs are same race and always pass as each other. Our languages are related and we are related, whether Arabs or Jews like it or not. This is religious, ethnic, tribal, land and family fight. It has never been racism on either side, no matter how many like to use that word while wrongly thinking and wishing they know its meaning. Zionism has never been racism.
...where you will have to travel abroad on assignment (for Haaretz, that is) or want to travel abroad on holiday.
Tremendous entertainment value ...
so what's the solution you think ?
It's clearly not the same person on the two pictures, but it feels very good to read someone who has retained his sense of humor.
Well, yes, I see your point. I, too, have noticed that all Arabs, personally and collectively through their governments, newspapers, and through their mosques, have warm feelings toward Israel and Jews.
Tinted contacts?
anyone in the passports nor even the real persons landing in dubai . modern british passports carry a number and a magnetic reader strip ! it would be remarkable if they were duplicated exactly ?
"an elderly woman approached me and tapped my shoulder. "Good for you," she said. "You showed those Arabs." ", this is outrageous, it just shows how the average Israeli Jew feels about Arabs. The woman didn't say you showed those terrorists (referring to Hamas), or you showed those Hamas goons, she said you showed those Arabs...all Arabs are the same to this woman. This very racism that exists in the average Israeli Jew that is driving this engine of hatred, at least from that side. Shameful, very shameful...
Some people try very hard to get their 15 minutes of fame and all you had to do was look the part! On a more serious note, there could be problems if anyone has been the victim of identity theft. It has still not been proven that this was a Mossad attack. (I think it probably was but probability is not the same as cast-iron proof). However, if this was carried out by that agency, they should not have implicated innocent people. This can cause them future problems which they do not deserve.
"Look-alike"? Don't be silly, look at the ears.
then the mouth, ears, nose. In my opinion they have almost nothing in common.
You are a hero, without even knowing it or doing anything. You have my vote if you ever were to run! LOL
...the big movie to come...lol... oh my... this is at least within the top-10-stories of the century...
obviously, his picture was easily available. hence many could have access to it. the ears are different as is the shape of the top of the head. good resemblance but ultimately far from perfect.