In the morning I read news coming from Israel from Haartez that there will be some kind of spies exchange between Egypt and Israel , Egypt will take back the Egyptian prisoners in the Israeli prisoners and Israel will take back its Israeli prisoner who was arrested of spying !!
At first there was not much about the news itself , I wondered what Israeli prisoner who is in our jails currently for espionage !!?? There are no Israeli spies in our jails left after Azzam Azzam and I think I did not miss the news that the GIS has arrested some Israeli spying on our bases lately
Well I had to read the news from its original source to know who is that Israeli spy caught without our knowledge ,it does not make 
It turned out that they are speaking about Ouda Tarabin, the infamous Egyptian-Israeli spy who has been in jail for a decade or This is the first point.
The second point well this is an opinion column , it is not an official news ,Yossi Melman who wrote this column was criticizing the Israeli government and Knesset for leaving Tarabin in our fearful prisons accusing them of discrimination , Tarabin is left in Egypt because he is not a Jew like Shalit but because he is an Arab.
Well I answer back Mr. Melman , yes Tarabin is an Israeli Citizen but he is also an Egyptian citizen and he was convicted as a spy as an Egyptian citizen not as an Israeli citizen.
Ouda’s story :
Ouda is from the famous Tarabin tribe that lived in the region for decades .His father is called Soliman and his mother is called Harba. Soliman’s offspring are 10 including two girls .His father Soliman lived in Nakab desert till 1951 when he was forced to leave it by the orders of the Israeli military ruler then to Al Arish. When he arrived in Al Arish he was given along with his family Egyptian passports which means that he and his children had become Egyptian citizens object to Egyptians laws. After 1967 he was recruited by the IDF and Mossad to spy on Egyptians in Al Arish and report them about the 
In January 1990 Soliman and his clan escaped to Israel as soon as there was a court order of his arrest for espionage and jail in Egypt for 25 years. The Tarabins lived in the Nakab desert and they were given Israeli passports. Despite being settled down in Israel Soliman faced a problem , according to the tribal traditions his two daughters had to marry from the same Tarabin tribe that still lives in Egypt in Al Arish. Thus His daughters had to marry from their cousins and live in Al Arish and they are still living there.
In 1999 Harba and her 19 years old son Ouda tried to cross the borders to visit the girls , the officers returned them back saying that they were persona non grata in Egypt. Ouda did not understand the words of the officer or he rather did not want to understand because he returned back and entered Sinai through paths known by tribesmen “ used for smuggling”. He stayed for days in the city yet he was arrested in his sister Sabah’s house by tip from her husband “Soliman” who is also Ouda’s cousin. Soliman reported to the authorities to the city that his cousin had offered him to work for the Mossad ,collecting information about the Egyptian security movement in North Sinai.
Ouda was arrested and was convicted in front of the Egyptian courts for espionage , he was sentenced 15 years in jail. His family at first did not know despite I remember that I read the news in the newspapers , they knew from one of the Tarabins who was in jail and saw Ouda by coincidence !!
Now Ouda is not considered an Israeli in front of the Egyptian court , he was treated as an Egyptian and I think the Israeli government understands this.
Ouda by the way does not suffer that muchin jail , with my all respect the Muslim brotherhood prisoners do not enjoy the same privileges he is enjoying according to the news reports , in fact he does not suffer in the same way Ayman Nour suffered in jail !!
Now I want to say something Soliman Tarabin had harmed a lot of people during his spy years in Al Arish , a lot of young men were killed because of him so I do not feel sympathy at all for his suffering , he is a traitor who dealt with our enemy in time of war regardless of peace now , the cold war is over between the US and Russia yet both countries did not forget the spies in between. His son is not so special than those families he harmed during the occupation years.
Unfortunately :(
ReplyDeleteI wonder since he's already accused with spying and this is proved, why don't they take off his citizenship as Egyptian? It's not another number to be count among Egyptians!
@Hicham, do not ask me , ask them , already it seems that they are going to swamp him in the end by our prisoners there
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