Friday 5th April 2013 - Egypt

Roy and I have just returned from a most pleasant sight seeing tour of Tahrir Square and Port Said courtesy of El Al Airlines in one of their upgraded Dakotas and as guests of the charming Meir Dagan, formerly Huberman, the Director General of Mossad. And as most people don't know, Dagan was born on a steam train between the Soviet Union and Poland during the Holocaust. And as everyone does know, Dagan served as Director of the Israel Port Authority in 2011 and was made chairman of Gulliver Energy Ltd in the same year, licensed to mine uranium in the Dead Sea & drill for gold in Eilat, all part of the Israel governments' peace policy.

The small crowd that gave us support in Tahrir Square

In-between Tahrir Square & Port Said, we attended the recently re-inaugurated Egyptian Games where we met Egypt's only gold medallist, Bassam Youssless. Youssless won the Egyptian 200m deep arrester bed final in a Games record of 6 minutes and 10 seconds, breathing through every available orifice including his urethra, in fact, through any of his bodily organs that could even vaguely function as an oxygen exchange unit. He had his first heart attack at the end of his first season, & in his salubrious and short career, he blew more heart valves than Dick Cheney during the first Iraqi invasion. After his third heart transplant at the end of his fourth season as arrester bed champion, Youssless switched to his native Moroccan beach volleyball B team before retiring to a second career in the commercial sector.

Youssless discusses his next operation with his surgeon.

Since giving up sport and studying as a thoracic surgeon & sometime general surgeon, Youssless fell foul of Mossad when he botched Dagan's recent liver transplant by mistakingly using a baboon's heart, blown up in the recent political unrest in downtown Cairo, when he should have received the liver of the recently assassinated Head of Security, Habib el-Ugly, who had been on holiday in Cairo's notorious Tora prison. His satirical take on political life in the Middle East including the ludicrous political gamut for peace in the troubled region, had led to his recent incarceration in Ayalon prison in the city of Ramla on the periphery of the picturesque capital of Tel Aviv.