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  Binyameen’s mockery reined Danny’s anger, Tzipi intervened:

  “Everyone here made plenty of sacrifice for our nation!”

  Binyameen turned to her:

  “Sacrifices of the Israeli Army officers who measure their heroics by the amount of blood they spill!”

  “They risk their lives so that you and the rest of Israelis live in peace in a community surrounded by terrorists”

  “Yes yes, I can never forget the sacrifices of demolishing civilian homes and crushing the terrifying children in both Gaza wars”

  She turned away when he mentioned the genocide at Gaza that she personally led under the instructions of Ariel Sharon, Binyameen continued addressing everyone:

  “History has proven that blood does not build nations, the age of the bullet has come to an end, we are now in the age of a scientific and technological race, and that is where we are superior!”

  “And that is why we tolerate a one-eyed abomination like yourself! Move on and don’t waist our time you son of…”

  When Danny uttered his statement, he did not expect that Binyameen can jump over the table and throw a punch at him before he starts his next word:

  “This was for calling me one-eyed”

  He circled around him and locked his arm around his neck and stuffed his thumb in his mouth and clamped onto his tongue and continued before Danny could even comprehend what was happening:

  “And because you even thought to cuss my mother, I will rip out your tongue, it will be less painful if you do not resist”

  Binyameen’s nails dug into Danny’s tongue who was throwing his arms backwards in an attempt to grab Binyameen and remove his grip, the rest of them came out of their shock, Yuval and Nafttali rushed to relieve Danny and two security guards came in and were able to pull them apart and restrain the movements of Binyameen and Danny who tried to attach Binyameen with blood flowing from his tongue and mouth while yelling ang growling with a lisp caused by his injured tongue:

  “I will kill you! I swear I will kill you with my own two hands and keep your eye as an ash tray you freak… you damned scum”

  His cursing went on as he left the meeting room, Binyameen picked up the towel that had dropped off his shoulder to wipe of the blood in disgust.

  “I hope that whatever you are about to show us can justify your mischief and is worth this stupid display”

  Said Tzipi who did not show any interest in the fight between Binyameen and Danny, Binyameen ignored her and he gestured to Elyana, an image appeared on screen, an eye in the center of a compass and a right-angled ruler:

  “The result of the alliance between the Templar and the Rabbis of the Ashkenazi, the shrewdest secret group of all history emerged: the Freemasons who in a short amount of time to set in motions their plans across the planet and utilize the savings of the Jews who are less than two tenths of a percent of the human population”

  “This is God’s promise to us”

  Said Rabbi Eliyahu, Binyameen responded:

  “Plots of war, total domination of global media that was used to deceive and push propaganda that advances Zionist agenda, bribing country presidents and those in power with money and women, taking over the world’s gold, diamonds, financial markets and global trade… the list of filth goes on that can never be part of a divine plan! The Devil himself would be ashamed to claim credit!”

  “All to restore the glory of Israel and achieve God’s promise”

  Binyameen turned to the Rabbi and answered:

  “I forgot that your Talmud convinced you that non-Jews are not humans, and that the ends justify the means”

  He gestured to Elyana, and images of wars, struggles, protests and acts of violence flipped on the screen:

  “And as you know, the Masonic plots achieved most of its objectives, only two threats remained: Free social media networks that broke through their grip over media, and the leaps in technology that is creating alternatives for the wealth that they control”

  Elyana brought a new picture onto the screens… a picture of Eyad and Husam:

  “This is the original mission of my team: study supernatural phenomenon and reach scientific explanations for them, then advance it to gain scientific lead for the state of Israel. Five years ago, news about a young Arabian man who came out of a car accident with abnormal abilities after he was near death, we had him under surveillance to study him”

  He gestured to Elyana, the imaged turned into a scene showing Husam and Eyad practicing martial arts in the back yard of Mansour Al-Zaydi’s palace:

  “As we monitored Husam, we stumbled upon another phenomenon that we no less strange”

  The video was not very clear, as satellite surveillance was still at its beginnings. As the watched Husam, they felt as if Bruce Lee has come back to life, Eyad was trying to keep up with his fast moves, Husam finished the fight with a side kick that threw Eyad several meters before he fell on his back, the scene ended when Eyad got back on his feet:

  “Did you notice anything?”

  As he said it, Elyana rewinder the part where Eyad was getting up, and played it in slow motion, he extended his hand in the air as if someone in front of him helped him up, and he then stood when that unseen person pulled him up, everyone was shocked; Binyameen gestured for Elyana to play a second clip that she had retrieved from the recordings of the cameras attached to the masks of the solders who tried to abduct Sawsan, Maram and Jumana at the Marriot. The clip was very short, it was of the solder carrying Maram when he shouted as he fell to the ground while Maram’s body floated gently to one of the couches as if some invisible carried her. Binyameen commented:

  “I have tens of evidence that there is a mystery surrounding Husam and Eyad, and if we know what it is, we would be on the doorsteps of an enormous scientific revolution”

  Elyana then played the next clip, a map that shows a blinking dot, Binyameen explained:

  “This blinking dot is originating from the tracking device in the bracelet I gave to Jumana, Eyad’s daughter. As you can see, she is in the middle of the Marriot hotel”

  The dot disappeared suddenly, then reappeared three seconds somewhere else on the map:

  “At the exact moment of the explosion, the child disappeared and the reappeared three seconds later in a spot that was two hundred and fifty meters away!”

  Chatter spread in the room before Yuval said:

  “Do you have any explanation for all of this?”

  “I am not sure, but all the evidence point to the fact that Husam had gained abilities that far surpassed what the media reported, I think that he somehow can be at two place at one time, or that he could move to parallel dimensions”

  Reactions varied amongst the audience, from rejection to ridicule, except for Tzipi who’s curiosity was peaking, so Binyameen went on:

  “There are clear signals of dealing with other universes and instant teleportation in what was reported about King Solomon, I am sure his books hold many of those sciences and secrets… All the discoveries we have made through the Zohar and Kabbalah are negligible if compared to what we still did not uncover. I think that someone has beat us to more of the science of Solomon’s kingdom and somehow got them to Husam during his coma, my mission is to solve this mystery”

  “I am finally intrigued”

  Said Tzipi, Binyameen moved his face closer:

  “I will do my best to always keep you intrigued madam, fore I am sure that I will die in suspicions circumstances the moment that I lose your interest in me”

  “Your artificial eye has been turned off for the entire meeting… why?”

  “I doubted anyone else besides you had notice the absence of the sound of my lens’s gears motion, you still have your Mosad intuition; in any case, there were faces that I did not feel like seeing today, but don’t worry, I will always keep my eye open”

  As he said that he dropped his glasses to gaze at Tzipi with a died look from an artificial eye that was turned off and an acryli
c eye, a gaze that terrified a hear that almost does not know terror, Tzipi said mockingly in an event to try and hide her terror:

  “Good, even if you have to blink, don’t blink at the wrong moment, and never blink with both eyes at the same time”

  He placed his dark glasses back in their possession as her replied:

  “Thank you for the advice, but I don’t need it, I can see without my eyes!”

  *****

  Mansour Al-Zaydi, Eyad’s father, rushed through the Marmottan hospital’s corridors, he leaned at the ER receptionist:

  “I am looking for the casualties from the Marriot hotel, I am looking for my son, his wife and my grandchild”

  He ran to where she had pointed before she could start talking, his eyes were digging through each room in the corridor until he notices Sawsan sitting on the inspection bed surrounded by two nurses and Jumana was sleeping on the bed’s edge, the stormed into the room as he asked in panic:

  “Where is Eyad?”

  “Don’t worry Dad, he flew out”

  Mansour hugged Sawsan, and carried Jumana in his arms and started kissing her between her eyes as he took his breath and exhaled with tears:

  “Thank God… Thank God… The police had your names amongst the casualties, my heart was about to stop”

  “Thank God, he blessed us and sent us a savior”

  The two nurses had left the small ER room, the door behind Mr. Mansour slid shut, and his body shivered when he heard a voice behind him:

  “I finally get the honor the meet Eyad’s father”

  (5)

  The Aquarium

  F ear is an instinct buried in the fabric of your DNA, it usually arises from the unknown. The unknown terrorizes you, frightens you, terrifies you. But… when the unknown becomes familiar… the fear dissipates. You fear death, because of your ignorance of what lays after it, although it might be the relief from your struggle in life; you fear darkness because you do not know what it hides, although it might be easier and gentler than many of the things you see every day; you fear jinn because you never met nor mingled with them, despite the fact that you know that the had never and will never brutalize you are you brutalize each other.

  Mr. Mansur Al-Zaidi went through of those stages in an instant: surprise, scare, astonishment then terror that dissipated with Hawjan’s sentence that held in its tone a truth that convinced him that Hawjan was more than just a friend even though he can hear him without seeing him:

  “I am Hawjan, Eyad’s friend, we met once at the wedding, I was materialized as Dr. Emad Zaki”

  A shock like this can not be comprehended unless you met a jinni and he had spoken to you directly; Mr. Mansour did not reply, his breaths turned into small consecutive gasps, he looked through that emptiness where the voice was coming from, then his gaze that had never carried so much astonishment moved to Sawsan who smiled to calm him, then towards Jumana who had just awoken and opened her eyes slowly then shouted cheerfully when she noticed her grandfather:

  “Grampa, I missed you very very much, where is Gramma? Guess who came”

  She jumped in joy as she continued:

  “Elyaseen! Elyaseen, where did you go? Come great Grampa Mansour whom I told you about… Where are you Elyaseen?”

  Mr. Mansour forgot his lower jaw that was hanging as his eyes popped when the room’s curtain moved and a childish laughter came from behind it, Jumana ran towards the sound and stuck her hand behind the curtain to pull Elyaseen:

  “Come on Elyaseen, come on, don’t be shy, Grampa Mansour will play with us and bring us candy… come on!”

  Elyaseen came out from behind the curtain holding Jumana’s hand while looking shyly at the floor and stealing quick looks at Mr. Mansour who could not believe what he was seeing, where did this come from? He looked just like any five-year-old kid, he gazed at his white pail skin and coal dark heavy hear that dropped over his eyes and clean stylish clothes… the knock out was when Elyaseen turned and ran towards Jumara who had not materialized in our world as he shouted in a language that Mr. Mansour did not understand, and the kid rose in the air in front of his eyes when his mother carried him in her arms, Hawjan went on to help Mr. Mansour out of his shocked state that precedes fainting:

  “This is Jumara… my wife, Mr. Mansour, I do sympathies with the shock you feel, but we need to talk, there are things that you need to know!”

  *****

  Binyameen ignored the two guards and their machine guns as he passed his palm in front of the fortified door’s lock to read his prints and pores before its gears slammed and the lock moved allowing Binyameen to pass to the medical wing at the heart of the secret base of Future Israel, Eyad jumped from his bed and attacked Binyameen, he did not care about the tube connecting his arm to the IV that fell off of its bar to the rooms floor and rolled behind Eyad as he held Binyameen from his shirt and yelled:

  “You almost killed us you damn freak! Did you trick us just so you can lure us to this despicable trap?!”

  He landed his fest on Binyameen’s face who stayed calm, blood from the needle in Eyad’s arm splattered on Binyameen’s face when he punched him, he followed with a second punch, and the third almost did the same but Husam’s strict words stopped it:

  “Eyad, that is enough!”

  Binyameen fixed his glasses and slowly removed Eyad’s grip from his shirt as he said calmly as if nothing happened:

  “Thank God for your safety, I am truly impressed!”

  “Are we supposed to dance in joy because we managed to impress you after you tried to kill us?!”

  Said Eyad as he tried not to attack Binyameen again, then he replied in the calm tone:

  “Getting out of that situation with but a few bruises and minor scratches is an achievement worthy of celebration and dancing, man you’ve been given a new life!”

  “Where are we? What do you want from us?!”

  Said Husam as he pointed at the virtual window that was showing a three-dimensional image of nature:

  “You Husam have what I want, simply I need to test and analyze your abilities to figure out its secrets”

  “Do you expect us to just cooperate with a maniac such as your self to perform experiments on us?!”

  Said Eyad as he contemplated attacking him again, while Binyameen answered:

  “First of all, we will only perform experiments on Husam, as far as we are concerned you are but a normal human, a mere addition to these experiments. Secondly and more importantly, I am sorry to inform you that Sawsan, Maram and Jumara’s safety is dependent on your cooperation”

  Him mentioning Sawsan and Jumana was the equivalent of detonating a bomb inside Eyad who attacked him again, but Binyameen’s reaction this time was different, he shifted gracefully and pulled out a gun that was hidden in his belt and pointed it towards Eyad’s neck as he pushed him and slammed him to the wall, and before he could comprehend what was going on, he held Eyad’s hand and placed the gun there and dug it into his temple and said:

  “I am sick of your boyish spectacle Eyad, go on pull the trigger if you are really serious!”

  The shock paralyzed Eyad, Binyameen continued as he pushed his cheek harder onto the gun:

  “This is the only chance you will get to kill me, wither kill me now, or stop performing the role of the fool”

  “Binyameen, what happened to Maram, Sawsan and Jumana?!”

  Asked Husam, Binyameen answered as he retrieved the gun from Eyad’s hand and hid it back in his belt:

  “It appears that someone was trying to get to you before I did, the Marriot hotel was the target of a suicide bomber… But rest assured, they are not harmed”

  Worry spread through Husam and Eyad’s veins:

  “Who is trying to get to us? Who’s behind the operation?” Demanded Eyad.

  “Them…” responded Binyameen abruptly.

  “Them?! Them who?!”

  Husam interrupted him:

  “Where are Maram, Sawsan and Jumana now?”
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  “They are at Marmottan hospital, and they will get to them is we waste any more time”

  “And you expect us to trust you again, just like that?!”

  “Unfortunately, Eyad, I do not think you have any other choice but to trust me, you only need to believe that what we are doing will save millions of human lives, including Sawsan and Jumana”

  “Does humanities future depend on using me as a guinea pig?”

  Said Husam, Binyameen responded:

  “Had it not been for me, your body now would have been scattered amongst a large number of laboratories around the globe, you have the most expensive blood, I am sure you can imagine what some criminal organizations might be willing to pay for a sample of your blood! The entity I work for do not have a surplus of ethics or patience, all they care about is getting the secret to your abilities, all of them! All I can give you now is a promise to finish those experiments in the fastest possible way”

  “You could have just drained my blood and give samples to all your labs!”

  “I got all the samples that I need the moment you arrived here, and it did prove my theory, on the physiological level you are less than normal, nothing special about your DNA, and your cells lose their super abilities the moment they leave your body. I am convinced that all of your abilities come from your subconscious that got full control over your body when you were near death”

  “So you want to push me to near death so that it would remanifest itself!”

  “Finally, we are on the same page”

  Eyad cut them off:

  “I don’t care about the experiments now, all I care about is the safety of Sawsan, Jumana and Maram, we must call them!”

  Binyameen put his hand in his pocket and pulled out two phones and waved them to Eyad and Husam as he said:

  “Luckily our team was able to save your sims and phone data and I got a copy of them, please accept this small gift from me”

  Husam snatched his new phone abd said:

  “I just want to know they are safe”

  “Nothing will happen to them”