Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has struck again, fooling a former top Israeli spy under the guise of his leather-clad alter-ego Bruno.
Former Israeli spy Yossi Alpher and Palestinian academic Ghassam Khalib were interviewed by Cohen after being told it was for a youth documentary about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Baron Cohen initially asked: “What’s the connection between a political movement and food? Why hummus?
One the guests explained: “Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political movement. Hummus is a food.”
Baron Cohen then continued asking: "Ya, but why hummus? Yesterday I threw away my pitta bread because it was dripping hummus. And it’s too high in carbohydrates.
He later told them their conflict was not so bad.
"Jennifer-Angelina is worse."
The 36-year-old actor, disguised as camp Austrian television presenter Bruno, also barraged the pair with a series of inane questions including:
"'Why don’t you settle the conflict with a time share on the land?' 'When will you Jews return to the pyramids?' and 'Why can’t Jews and Hindus get along?'"
The guests finally caught on when Baron Cohen asked them to hold hands and sing a song about the Middle East conflict.
Mr Alpher said that he could sense that something was wrong.
"”We knew something ludicrous was happening but couldn't quite figure it out," The Sun quoted Alpher as saying.
Bruno is due out next May.
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