There’s an old saw that truth is stranger than fiction. This is often true because fiction suffers from a handicap that truth does not: fiction has to be believable. Truth simply doesn’t care.

But every now and then you hear a story that is so insanely implausible you have to give it just a little credence because you cannot imagine someone would ever have the sheer nerve to make it up.

That was my first reaction when I read this story. Who’s behind the surge in piracy off the Horn of Africa? What sinister forces might be responsible for the increased attacks off Somalia?

Why, if Muslim pirates from a Muslim nation (Somalia) seize an oil tanker owned by another Muslim nation (Saudi Arabia) and hold the ship, its cargo, and its Muslim crew for ransom, who would be the logical people to blame for it?

The Jews, of course.

A long time ago, a sagacious individual opined that Israel was the best thing that could ever have happened to the Muslim world. By its very existence, it gave them a reason to stop beating up on each other and instead focus on a single entity to blame for all their troubles.

But this example… this one really, really takes the cake. The Israelis are behind Somali Muslims going out into the sea and raiding and pillaging? All as part of some nefarious plot to take control of the Red Sea from their one tiny little port city?

What’s the Arabic word for “chutzpah?”

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