The Russian Affair by Adrian D'Hage

Author:Adrian D'Hage [D'Hage, Adrian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781743484210
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

‘I hope you’ll be happy with us,’ said Miri, as they drove out through the guard gate and turned west onto Route 25 for the short trip across the desert to Dimona.

‘I’m sure I will be,’ said Rabinovich, staring across the low sandy hills.

‘Will you miss your family in Russia?’

Rabinovich remained on high alert. Her father had destroyed any trust she might have had in humanity decades ago, so the emphasis in her training on the spy’s time-honoured dictum of ‘trust no one’ had been somewhat superfluous. Miri might be just making pleasant conversation, but on the other hand, Miri might not be all she seemed, Rabinovich thought. She might, for all Rabinovich knew, be another agent of the Mossad.

‘No, my parents died a while ago, so I’m dedicated to my research.’

‘No man on the scene? Sorry, I don’t mean to pry,’ said Miri, laughing as she apologised. ‘Our director’s married, but there are one or two others I could introduce you to.’

‘Very single, but I like it that way,’ said Rabinovich, cutting off any complications to her mission. ‘It gives me more time in the laboratory where I hope I can make a real contribution to our security, because I had no idea Israel was so small.’

‘And threatened by Iran who wants to destroy us, and surrounded by thieving, devious Arabs who want to kick us into the Mediterranean.’

Rabinovich was taken aback by the vehemence in Miri’s verbal assault on her neighbours.

‘You don’t think peace is a chance?’

‘Not a snowball’s chance in hell. They say they want their own state, yet we’ve offered them that on no fewer than five occasions. They could have had it back in 1947 when Golda Meir, who was a minister in David Ben Gurion’s first government, addressed them from the balcony of her office in Jerusalem. After the United Nations decided on a state for Israel and a state for the Palestinians, she told them: “It’s not all of what you want, and it’s not all of what we want, but let’s go forward together in peace.” And what did the devious little shits do? Four days later they invaded us. If you offered the Kurds, or the Tibetans, or the Chechens their own state, they’d take it in a heartbeat, but not the bloody Arabs.’

Rabinovich didn’t respond. Miri’s loyalty to her homeland was palpable and the director’s secretary was also extraordinarily well read. Was Miri just a passionate Israeli or was there something more to her, Rabinovich wondered.

‘They could have had their own state on four different occasions since,’ Miri continued, ‘and in 2008, Prime Minister Olmert offered a near total withdrawal from the West Bank.’

‘Wouldn’t that mean back to the 1967 borders?’

‘Yes – and we would be just 15 kilometres wide at the hip, which means we could be cut in two in an instant. Olmert not only offered them that, he told them we would just keep the major settlements and we would compensate them with an equivalent in Israeli land.

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