The view from our room in the apartment at the Malaysian Embassy complex, and straight into the high-security Israeli Embassy compound! Due to some unexplainable reason, the Israelis are our next door neighbour in Beijing :-).
The story goes that our govt bought the land to build the embassy complex and soon after the Israelis bought the adjacent piece of land. To make things more interesting, the Americans then bought a huge piece of land across the road from ours and have began construction of their embassy complex (to be ready for Olympics 2008, I bet). So we will end up sandwiched between two high-security, sensitive properties. :-)
The Israelis and the Malaysians share a common wall, each with security CCTVs. On occasions, their CCTVs were pointed into our compound, but our folks politely told them to piss off. Officially we are not on talking terms, but I'm not too sure if so in private. Well, we have to live as neighbours anyway.
