There’re currently about 2 dozen people waving Palestinian flags and shouting at about the same number of Houston cops out in front of my building right now. The Israeli consulate is 10 floors above me.
Whooee! Their numbers have quadrupled in the last half-hour. I guess they’re aiming for maximum numbers for rush hour.
hahaha beatle…you get used to it.
I used to work for a consulting company that had project offices all over the developing world. I’ll say as a disclaimer that I never witnessed this personally, but got to hear all about it from the field staff in our Our West Bank/Gaza office. The office was right next to this empty lot where A areas, B areas, and C areas came together - areas defined by the peace agreements. I might get the order of letters wrong, but basically A means Palestinian-controlled, no Israeli soldiers allowed. B means both Israeli & Palestinians allowed. C means Israeli-policed, no Palestinians allowed. So every day, the Palestinians would throw some rocks and the Israeli soldiers would taunt the Palestinians - each side trying to taunt the other into crossing into their territory and get their asses kicked. Rocks, rubber bullets, pipe bombs, tear gas - then everyone would run for cover into our office building. Every day, without fail - to them, it was normal.
The field staff in our Jakarta office bought a bunch of collapsible cots for the office, because they were often trapped over-night by anti-Suharto protests and military crackdowns.
In D.C. I used to work in an office building that housed the FCC. We’d have a bomb threat or other disturbance about once a week, plus the man who rode up and down the elevators showing people pictures of aborted fetuses. Gosh, I miss Aborted Fetus Man.
I also worked a few blocks from B’Nai B’rith in D.C. - a few years ago they got a suspicious package and a threat that it contained Anthrax. There was a full-on FEMA response, they evacuated the building and were stripping people naked and hosing them down in the middle of the street.
Craaaaaaaazy. I hope it calms down by rush hour!
beatle, you are gonna laugh at this.
I was unaware (haven’t worked here very long) but the Chicago Israeli consulate is located in MY office building. I happened to look out the window and down, and there they are - about 100 people so far.
Y’all are so lucky.
Beatle, this is not a good time to take that souvenir hunting rifle off the wall and pretend to be taking target practice.
Jim
Funny coincidence, there.
The only other incident involving the consulate’s presence was a while back when Israeli security noticed a car in the garage that had on obviously quite heavy load in its trunk. They thought it might be a car bomb so they called the police, evacuated the building and proceeded to investigate. Sure enough, the bomb-pooch alerted, so the bomb squad went at it. It turned out the car belonged to a woman who worked in the building - she’d picked up a trunkload of topsoil on the way to work.
Glad you mentioned that, Jim.
Gee, JimB you just don’t want poor beatle to have any fun !
So beatle, how did everything turn out ?
One of our company’s client is Aramco (Arabian Oil). You have to go through at least 3 security points. During the gulf war, it was heavily heavily guarded.
It could be fun till they started firing back or the swat team showed up.
Well, that might be fun, too, as long as no one got hurt.
Jim
Reminds me of when I went to U of Houston in the seventies. Every friday afternoon at one, the Iranian students would march in protest against the Shah Of Iran. (Several hundred of them) Wearing their white faceless masks. We had a lot of Iranians on our campus until the Ayatollah took over the embassy. Then miraculously they became Saudi Arabians, Iraqis, etc. 