And finally: THE FISH! The most fab fish in all of Europe. Now, unfortunately, an ex-fish, but he (/she) died in the most noble of all causes. To feed me.

What’s fishy though is the mysterious case of the exploding communication devices. Very strange. We’ve all had phones that pack up, electric bikes whose batteries catch fire, electronic devices recalled for manufacturing faults. But yesterday’s… event?, tragedy?, let’s say ‘catastrophe’, in which 4000 pagers simultaneously exploded causing deaths, terrible injuries and rather a lot of blood spilled all over Lebanon, was something different. In both scale and intent. And certainly in the message it sends (no pun intended… ok, just a bit intended).

Firstly, those in possession of the pagers were ALL Hezbollah members. Soldiers. Whatever you term them. And in the UK they are termed ‘terrorists’, like Hamas. So unless you work for the BBC, you would understand that these are not good people. They are not the moral equivalent of a democratic nation’s army. They are people who maim, slaughter and destroy indiscriminately. They target civilians, they bomb school buses. They are scum. Hezbollah are on the same page as Al Quaeda. As ISIS. They have an ideology which is essentially devoted to death. And their mission statement includes the annihilation of the state of Israel and the death of all Jews.

I get that a few innocent civilians were injured. Not many, and not seriously. And oddly, for that part of the world, not claimed as ‘mainly women and children’. Because most Hezbollah operatives are men. And they had the pagers. In their hands, pockets or just nearby. And they took the explosions. And became the ‘martyrs’ we all wish them to be.

But the message this sends is really one of ‘do you have any idea of who you’re threatening? Of how fucking clever we are??’ Because IT experts were last night trying to work out what happened. How it happened. At what level the ‘infiltration’ occurred to produce such a massive ‘compromise’ of an entire paramilitary communication network. Because for most nations this would be simply impossible to achieve.

Due to our limited tv options over here in Greece, I chose to watch the Al Jazeera news, because all CNN could offer was 24 hour coverage of Donald Trump’s golf course in Florida and how the latest ‘attempted assassination’ could have happened. And even Al Jazeera were in awe of the quite incredible ability of Mossad to do what pretty much no-one else in the world can even work out after the event. Which might make Hezbollah wonder ‘what else can they do?’

Ok, enough distraction, I need to get back to food.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx