{"id":1456,"date":"2006-08-10T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2006-08-10T20:06:03","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T20:06:03","slug":"2006-8-10-abul-3abed-goes-to-war-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Abul 3abed goes to war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">An Abul 3abed humour that&#8217;s been circulating the Arab cyberspace recently&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olmert was sitting in his office wondering how to invade Lebanon when his telephone rang.<br \/>&#8220;Hallo, Mr. Olmert!&#8221; a heavily accented voice said. &#8220;This is Abul Abed,down at the tea house in Beirut! I am callin` to tell ya dat we are officially declaring war on you, yes you!&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Well&#8221; Olmert replied, &#8220;This is indeed important news! How big is your army?&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Right now,&#8221; said Abul Abed, after a moments calculation &#8220;there is myself, my cousin Mustafa, me next-door-neighbor Abou khaled, and the whole team from the tea house. That makes eight!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olmert paused. &#8220;I must tell you Abul Abed, that I have one million men in my army waiting to move on my command.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Holy jeez,&#8221; said Abul Abed. &#8220;I`ll have to call ya back!&#8221;<br \/>Sure enough, the next day, Abul Abed called again. &#8220;Mr. Olmert, the war is still on! We have managed to acquire some infantry equipment!&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;And what equipment would that be Abul Abed?&#8221;, Olmert asked. &#8220;Well sir, we have two Mercedes 180, and a truck.&#8221;<br \/>Olmert sighed. &#8220;I must tell you Abul Abed, that I have 16,000 tanks and 14,000 armoured personnel carriers. Also I`ve increased my army to one and a half million since we last spoke.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;<em>Ya lateef<\/em>&#8220;, said A Abul Abed, &#8220;I`ll be getting back to ya.&#8221;<br \/>Sure enough, Abul Abed rang again the next day. &#8220;Mr. Olmert , the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We modified a helicopter with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four more neighbors have joined us as well!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Olmert was silent for a minute then cleared his throat. &#8220;I must tell you Abul Abed that I have 10,000 bombers and 20,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I`ve increased my army to TWO MILLION!&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;<em>Lah lah lah lah<\/em>,&#8221; said Abul Abed, &#8220;I`ll have to call you back.&#8221;<br \/>Sure enough, Abul Abed called again the next day. &#8220;Mr. Olmert I am sorry to have to tell you dat we have had to call off this war.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;I`m sorry to hear that&#8221; said Olmert. &#8220;Why the sudden change of heart?&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;<em>Ya khayi<\/em>, &#8221; said Abul Abed, &#8220;we`ve all sat ourselves down and had a long chat, and come to realize that there is no way we can feed two million prisoners.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">An Abul 3abed humour that&#8217;s been circulating the Arab cyberspace recently&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olmert was sitting in his office wondering how to invade Lebanon when his telephone rang.<br \/>\n&#8220;Hallo, Mr. Olmert!&#8221; a heavily accented voice said. &#8220;This is Abul Abed,down at the tea house in Beirut! I am callin` to tell ya dat we are officially declaring war on you, yes you!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Well&#8221; Olmert replied, &#8220;This is indeed important news! How big is your army?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Right now,&#8221; said Abul Abed, after a moments calculation &#8220;there is myself, my cousin Mustafa, me next-door-neighbor Abou khaled, and the whole team from the tea house. That makes eight!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olmert paused. &#8220;I must tell you Abul Abed, that I have one million men in my army waiting to move on my command.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Holy jeez,&#8221; said Abul Abed. &#8220;I`ll have to call ya back!&#8221;<br \/>\nSure enough, the next day, Abul Abed called again. &#8220;Mr. Olmert, the war is still on! We have managed to acquire some infantry equipment!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And what equipment would that be Abul Abed?&#8221;, Olmert asked. &#8220;Well sir, we have two Mercedes 180, and a truck.&#8221;<br \/>\nOlmert sighed. &#8220;I must tell you Abul Abed, that I have 16,000 tanks and 14,000 armoured personnel carriers. Also I`ve increased my army to one and a half million since we last spoke.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>Ya lateef<\/em>&#8220;, said A Abul Abed, &#8220;I`ll be getting back to ya.&#8221;<br \/>\nSure enough, Abul Abed rang again the next day. &#8220;Mr. Olmert , the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We modified a helicopter with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four more neighbors have joined us as well!&#8221;<br \/>\nOlmert was silent for a minute then cleared his throat. &#8220;I must tell you Abul Abed that I have 10,000 bombers and 20,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I`ve increased my army to TWO MILLION!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>Lah lah lah lah<\/em>,&#8221; said Abul Abed, &#8220;I`ll have to call you back.&#8221;<br \/>\nSure enough, Abul Abed called again the next day. &#8220;Mr. Olmert I am sorry to have to tell you dat we have had to call off this war.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I`m sorry to hear that&#8221; said Olmert. &#8220;Why the sudden change of heart?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>Ya khayi<\/em>, &#8221; said Abul Abed, &#8220;we`ve all sat ourselves down and had a long chat, and come to realize that there is no way we can feed two million prisoners.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}