Israel is Developing 'Ethnic Bomb' for Growing Biological Weapons Arsenal
Rev-White
kill or harm Arabs but not Jews, according to Israeli military and western
intelligence sources cited in a front-page report in the London Sunday
Times, November 15, 1998 ("Israel Planning 'Ethnic' Bomb as Saddam Caves
In," by Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin).
In developing this "ethno-bomb," the British paper went on, Israeli
scientists are trying to exploit medical advances by identifying distinctive
genes carried by some Arabs, and then create a genetically modified
bacterium or virus. The goal is to use the ability of viruses and certain
bacteria to alter the DNA inside the host's living cells. The scientists are
trying to engineer deadly microorganisms that attack only those bearing the
distinctive genes.
The secret Israel program is based at the Institute for Biological Research
in Nes Tsiona, a small town southeast of Tel Aviv, the main research
facility for Israel's clandestine arsenal of chemical and biological
weapons.
A scientist there said the task is very complicated because both Arabs and
Jews are of Semitic origin. But he added: "They have, however, succeeded in
pinpointing a particular characteristic in the genetic profile of certain
Arab communities, particularly the Iraqi people." Diseases could be spread
by spraying organisms into the air or putting them in water supplies.
Some experts have commented that while an ethnically targeted weapon is
theoretically feasible, the practical aspects of creating one are enormous.
All the same, a confidential Pentagon report warned last year that
biological agents could be genetically engineered to produce new lethal
weapons.
US Defense Secretary William Cohen revealed that he had received reports of
countries working to create "certain types of pathogens that would be
ethnic-specific." A senior western intelligence source confirmed that Israel
is one of the countries Cohen had in mind, the Sunday Times report added.
Reliable Record
The Sunday Times report is all the more credible given the prestigious
paper's past record of reliable reporting. In a detailed front-page report
published on June 19, 1977, the Sunday Times first revealed to the world
that Israeli authorities had been torturing Palestinian prisoners, that this
torture was "widespread and systematic," and that it "appears to be
sanctioned at some level as deliberate policy." At the time Israeli
officials and Jewish-Zionist leaders in the United States protested the
Sunday Times revelations, and denied the charge. Later, though, Israeli
torture of prisoners was independently verified by Amnesty International,
and others.
Another recent Sunday Times article revealed that Israeli jets have been
equipped to carry chemical and biological weapons. "There is hardly a single
known or unknown form of chemical or biological weapons ... which is not
manufactured at the [Nes Tsiona] Institute," a biologist who is a former
Israeli intelligence official told the newspaper. And the Israeli newspaper
Yediot Ahronot, citing a foreign report, has told readers that hundreds of
bottles of deadly anthrax toxin are stored at the Institute.
The "ethnic bomb" claims have been given further credence in Foreign Report,
an authoritative Jane's publication that closely monitors security and
military matters. It cites unnamed South African sources as saying that
Israeli scientists, in trying to develop an "ethnic bullet" against Arabs,
have made use of similar biological studies conducted by South African
scientists during the Apartheid era (and later revealed in testimony before
that country's "Truth and Reconciliation Commission"). Foreign Report also
says that Israelis have gained insights into the Arab genetic make-up by
conducting research on "Jews of Arab origin, especially Iraqis."
The British Medical Association has become so concerned about the lethal
potential of genetically-based biological weapons that it has opened an
investigation. Dr. Vivienne Nathanson, who organized the research, said:
"With an ethnically targeted weapon, you could even hit groups within a
population. The history of warfare, in which many conflicts have an ethnic
factor, shows how dangerous this could be."
A spokesman for Britain's biological defense establishment confirms that
such weapons are theoretically possible. "We have reached a point now where
there is an obvious need for an international convention to control
biological weapons," he said.
The Anti-Defamation League lost no time denouncing the Sunday Times "ethnic
bomb" report. Abraham Foxman, national director of the influential
Jewish-Zionist organization, called it "irresponsible and dangerous." The
ADL official went on: "This sensational story is reminiscent of the age-old
anti-Semitic blood libel myth of Jews deviously targeting non-Jews with
poison." Question: How does Foxman know that this report is not true? Do
high-level Israeli officials routinely inform the ADL of the Zionist
government's top-secret military programs?
A senior Israeli government official similarly rejected the Sunday Times
report, saying "this is the kind of story that does not deserve denial."
Such Israeli declarations are virtually worthless, however, considering that
the Zionist state refuses officially to acknowledge that it has nuclear
weapons, a fact that even authoritative American sources have confirmed.
'Human Guinea Pigs'
Victor Ostrovsky, a former case officer of Israel's Mossad intelligence
agency, recalled in his book The Other Side of Deception how he first
learned of the Zionist state's secret weapons center:
It was Uri who enlightened me regarding the Nes Zionna [Tsiona] facility. It
was, he said, an ABC warfare laboratory -- ABC standing for atomic,
biological and chemical. It was where our top epidemiological scientists
were developing various doomsday machines. Because we were so vulnerable and
would not have a second chance should there be an all-out war in which this
type of weapon would be needed, there was no room for error. The [captured]
Palestinian infiltrators came in handy in this regard. As human guinea pigs,
they could make sure the weapons the scientists were developing worked
properly and could verify how fast they worked and make them even more
efficient.
As most of the world recognizes, United States policy toward countries that
develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons is sanctimonious and
brazenly hypocritical.
Recently, for example, the US government sharply condemned India and
Pakistan for testing nuclear weapons. Of course, the only country ever to
have actually used nuclear weapons is the United States. In August 1945,
American forces instantly killed tens of thousands of Japanese civilians
with atomic bombs, first in Hiroshima and then in Nagasaki -- even though
America's most competent military leaders held that there was no military
need to use the horrific weapon. (See: "Was Hiroshima Necessary," in the
May-June 1997 Journal, pp. 4-12).
To prevent the government of Iraq from developing "weapons of mass
destruction" (to use the currently fashionable phrase), the United States
regularly bombs the hapless Arab country, and enforces an economic embargo
that (according to authoritative estimates) has already claimed the lives of
more than 200,000 Iraqi children.
For decades, though, America's political and intellectual leaders --
reflecting their obsequious subservience to Jewish-Zionist interests --
condone Israel's growing arsenal of sophisticated nuclear, chemical and
biological weapons
source: http://ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n6p24.html
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--Pat W Blakely
Dobr...@webtv.net
First,Israel publicly acknowledged it has nuclear weapons during the
Mordechai Zannunu fiasco in 1986.
Second,The fact that the source is the IHR,a Holocaust-denial
organization, automatically makes the whole thing suspect.The IHR has
been sued numerous times for telling public lies about the Holocaust and
in one case,they had to pay Mel Mermelstein $90,000.
Third,the ADL has nothing to do with "Zionism",since it fights racism of
all types,not only Anti-Semitism.The ADL is headquartered in New York
City,and takes no position on the emigration of Jews to Israel,which is
what Zionism is all about.Zionism is a movement begun in the 1880s to
create a Jewish homeland in the Middle East where Jews could be safe
from the persecution they faced in Europe.
What we have here is more hogwash from "Reverend White",who has the IQ
of an asparagus and the moral code of a rattlesnake.
Joe Bruno
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Orac
to the Junk Science website. The webmaster there couldn't believe that any
reputable newspaper would publish such idiocy and pseudoscience. I guess it just
goes to show how ignorant even the press is about basic biology. I notice that
none of the "experts" in biological warfare or "scientists" quoted in this
article were identified by name.
In short, this is utter crap, Ellis. Anyone with a basic knowledge of molecular
biology, genetics, or virology could tell you why. First off, there are no genes
that are 100% specific to any one race that could be targeted with such a
construct. Attempts to do so would inevitably also attack other races and could
not be specific. Next, even if such genes existed, it is highly unlikely that
they would be sufficiently distinct for such an organism to target, or, more
importantly, that they would be located in the cell or in a biochemical pathway
that would allow their use to target an organisml. Third, many Jews in Israel
are so closely related genetically to Arabs, that it is difficult to imagine
that they would be suicidal enough to try to target "Arab genes" (for want of a
better term) with such an organism. That would surely result in the infection of
a large percentage of the Israeli population as well. Finally, virology and
molecular biology are not sufficiently advanced to target genes precisely enough
to construct such an organism EVEN IF one could find a gene that is specific to
Arabs AND is amenable to use in this fashion, either by virtue of its location
on the cell surface or in an appropriate biochemical pathway. Such targeting is
theoretically possible, but lack of sufficient specificity (remember, even a
0.1% infection rate in people not carrying the targeted gene would have
devastating consequences) and actual viral engineering issues make it incredibly
unlikely.
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