http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8297812.stm
Dye-job donkeys wow Gaza children
A zoo in Gaza has found a novel way to get around Israeli restrictions on the importation of animals by partly dying two donkeys so they resemble zebras.
The owner of the Marah Land zoo in Gaza City said he had used masking tape and black hair dye, applied with a paint-brush, to disguise the white females.
Mohammed Bargouthi said it would have cost him more than $40,000 to bring in a real zebra via smuggling tunnels.
Children seemed delighted by the new additions and happily played with them.
“The first time we used paint but it didn’t look good,” Mr Bargouthi told the Reuters news agency. “The children don’t know, so they call them zebras and they are happy to see something new.”
All the real animals at the zoo, including monkeys and a lioness, had been smuggled under the border at great expense, he said.
Until Israel lifts its blockade of Gaza, imposed in an attempt to reduce rocket attacks and weaken the leadership of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, such asinine deceptions are likely to continue.
I wonder if they ordered them from Tijuana?
