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>JN Nov. 5, 1998, Vol. 6, No. 199
Canadian TV: Mossad Agents Want Canadian Passports
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Israeli Mossad security service have tried to obtain Canadian passports illegally despite a public promise last year to stop the practice, Canadian TV reports. The network's W-5 program reported Israeli agents had repeatedly asked Leslie Lewis, a 55-year-old Chasidic Jew who holds joint Canadian-Israeli citizenship, to allow them to use his passport and that of his daughter.
Genetic Warfare - The "Ethnic Bullet"
By IsraelWire
The March 14, 1996 issue of the Foreign Report quoted the former head of Sweden's defense research establishment, General Bo Rybeck, as saying that genetic weapons might be around the corner. Thus, a mixture of influenza or diphtheria could be designed to affect only blacks, a designer toxin could be aimed at Serbs or people with blue eyes might be given Alzheimer's disease. As far as he knew, no government was developing genetic weapons, Rybeck said.
Recently, an unconfirmed report from South African sources
indicated that Israeli scientists may have succeeded in developing
an "ethnic bullet" - a type of biological weapon tailored to attack
Arabs only. According to this unconfirmed report, aspects of the
Arab genetic system were discovered after years of research on Jews
of Arab origin, especially Iraqis.
South African sources claim the "ethnic bullet" program was
developed in their country to be used in extremis against blacks
during the apartheid era. Co-operation during those years between
South African and Israel scientists, especially in the nuclear
field, was close.
The Foreign Report says the Israelis took the project over and
directed it against the Arabs. One of the reported conclusions was
that there was a genetic difference between Ashkenazi (East
European) Jews and Jews of Arabic origin, and also between Jews and
Arabs.
The research, by this account, was conducted for many years in top
secrecy for security reasons and because of the sensitivity in
Israeli society about genetic experiments. Many were skeptical but,
our sources insist, some scientists appeared to have identified an
illness that could be transmitted through Baghdad's water supply
and affect only Arabs.
According to the Foreign Report, the results of the research,
carried out at several centers, were reported, it is said, to the
prime minister of the time. The operation was apparently completed
some two years ago. If this report is confirmed it would mean that
Israel would have to assign special agents to targeted cities,
armed with "ethnic bullets" to be used only on orders from
Tel-Aviv.
When the Foreign Report asked Israeli officials to comment, they
reportedly declined to confirm the existence of the "ethnic
bullet." But one said, "We have a basket full of strategic
surprises which we will not hesitate to use if we feel that the
state of Israel is under serious threat."
Vatican Denies it Wants Seat at Jerusalem Negotiations
By Ross Dunn (VOA-Jerusalem)
Israeli and Palestinian officials are to begin negotiations soon on
the future of Jerusalem. But they are not the only parties with
an interest in the Holy City. The Roman Catholic church has called
for special legislation to guarantee access to the city's sacred
sites for people of all religions. Both Israelis and Palestinians
claim Jerusalem as their religious and political capital and will
start to negotiate soon over their competing claims. But the
Catholic church also is making its position clear.
The Vatican has called for special laws to guarantee access for
people of all religions to the city's sacred sites. It says
Jerusalem is holy to three major religions -- Jews, Muslims and
Christians -- and this must be taken into account in any discussion
of the city's future.
The Vatican's Foreign Minister, Archbishop Jean Louis Tauran,
denied reports that the church is seeking a seat at the negotiating
table with Israel and the Palestinians.
"The Holy See doesn't want to enter into the question to know if
Jerusalem must be the capital of one state or two states, because
this is a bilateral issue, which has to be dealt with between two
partners, who are the Israelis and the Palestinians. So the Holy See has not the duty and cannot interfere in such questions. But what we ask for, we ask that the uniqueness and the sacrednessof the most holy places in Jerusalem be internationally guaranteed, so that nobody can claim for himself, these holy places that are in Jerusalem."
A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry says Israel is indeed
committed to allowing all people of different religions access to
sacred sites. But, he says, Jews will never allow the city to be
re-divided and will make sure that Jerusalem is to remain under the
sole sovereignty of Israel.
The Vatican says that, whatever the outcome of the negotiations,
neither Israelis or Palestinians should have a monopoly when it
comes to questions of religion.
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