- Note - One wonders how much progress this top secret
Israeli weapons program has achieved in the six years since this story
first appeared... -ed
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- Arabic News.com Regional-Israel, Military 11-16-98
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- Israel has abstained from commenting on reports leaked
to Western media that it had developed "ethnic" biological weapons
which target Arabs and exclude Jews, a British daily reported.
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- Apart from the condemnation of Israeli Knesset Member
Dedi Zucker, for processing this weapon which he described as "immoral,"
the Israeli governmental source kept silent toward these information which
were attributed to Israeli military sources and Western intelligence.
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- In its Sunday issue, the British daily "Sunday Times"
said that Israel is embarking on developing biological weapons which can
affect people according to their ethnic affiliation.
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- The paper reported that Israeli scientists are trying
to exploit medical discoveries in order to diagnose "distinctive genes"
relating to Arabs and develop according to these genes "microorganisms"
that can attack those who carry these "distinctive genes" apart
from others through transforming the "DNA system" inside the
human cells.
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- The same source quoted scientists working at the Israeli
Neis Tasyouna institute which specializes in manufacturing biological and
chemical weapons as saying that they faced difficulties in diagnosing "distinctive
genes for the Arabs" because both Jews and Arabs are descended from
a Semitic origin, while others said they could actually diagnose certain
traits "in the profile gene" of certain Arab communities, especially
the Iraqi people.
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- The said weapon can be used by being sprayed in the air
or the water. Israeli sources said that this "weapon can get at the
trench of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein."
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- The name of the Israeli biological institute was front-paged
by the Israeli dailies following news that Israelis who live near the institute
had been exposed to vague and unfamiliar symptoms as a result of material
leakage. Israeli officials denied such news.
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- The Israeli media gave wide interest to the report by
the British daily, which asserted that a secret report on the development
of the Israeli ethnic weapons project had recently arrived at the US Defense
Department (Pentagon ).
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- Last year the Pentagon warned in a secret report against
the possibility of developing biological elements through genetic engineering
to manufacture new weapons of mass destruction.
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- The idea of the ethnic biological weapon was based on
research prepared by a scientist from South Africa during apartheid in
South Africa. The idea was disclosed during discussions of the investigation
into crimes of racial discrimination in South Africa. All research pertaining
to the development of biological weapons was secretly transferred to Israel
from South Africa just a short time prior to the collapse of the racist
regime in South Africa out of fears that it would fall into the hands of
the blacks.
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- Within the same context, Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel
Sharon reiterated that, "Israel reserves its right to repel any possible
Iraqi attack."
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- At the conclusion of his meeting on Sunday with the US
secretary of commerce, Sharon added: "Israel can defend itself and
knows how to prevent being attacked."
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- Israel Developing 'Ethnic' Bomb
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- The London Times
- November 15 1998
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- Israel is working on a biological weapon that would harm
Arabs but not Jews, according to Israeli military and western intelligence
sources. The weapon, targeting victims by ethnic origin, is seen as Israel's
response to Iraq's threat of chemical and biological attacks.
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- A scientist there said the task was hugely 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."
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