68 Some Old Gossip
In the end, Seif al-Islam al-Qaddafi, the Colonel’s son and probable successor, is a lot more interesting than Gamal. If you haven’t heard, he’s been dating Israeli actress Orly Weinerman. She plans to convert to Islam and marry him. Seif al-Islam is also on record as saying Israel doesn’t represent a threat to Libya’s security.
I was going to blog this story when the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv first broke it in January, creating a minor splash (see, for example, The News of Pakistan, and Al-Hayat), but didn’t?in part because a Human Rights Watch report on a host of human-rights violations in Libya released around the same time made Seif al-Islam’s love live seem frivolous, and in part because Ma’ariv discontinued its English site and their Hebrew site’s advertising cookies crashed my Web browser.
But it’s almost April now, and I’m astonished to find that so many people still haven’t heard about this. Even those same HRW researchers who were invited to Libya by Seif al-Islam’s NGO hadn’t heard about it. So yes, if you’d been blissfully ignorant of Seif al-Islam’s love life, sorry. You can now imagine Qaddafi’s son romancing an attention-starved Israeli actress in Italy. Or imagine her saying the Shahada.
[tags]Israel, Libya, Seif al-Islam al-Qaddafi, Qaddafi, Orly Weinerman[/tags]
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