Israel/Biological weapons
 Israel/Biological weapons  (Biological weapons)  
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Israel has one of the most advanced[1] offensive biological warfare capabilities in the world. Israel is not a signatory to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).[2]
It is assumed that the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona also develops vaccines and antidotes for chemical and biological warfare.[3]
Israel retains an active ability to produce and disseminate biological weapons, likely as a result of its extremely complex biodefense program.[4][5]
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Israeli program collaborated with the apartheid South Africa BW-program.
Ethnic bioweapons
According to a 1998 report in the Sunday Times, Israel is developing a biological weapon that would harm Arabs while leaving Jews unaffected. The report, citing Israeli military and western intelligence sources, says that scientists are trying to identify distinctive genes carried by Arabs to create a genetically modified bacterium or virus.[6][7]
The "ethno-bomb" program is based at Israel's Nes Ziona research facility. Scientists are trying to use viruses and bacteria to alter DNA inside living cells and attack only those cells bearing Arabic genes.
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." The disease could be spread by spraying the organisms into the air or putting them in water supplies. `
Prisoners as guinea pigs
The Mossad whistleblower Victor Ostrovsky tells how prisoners were brought to black sites for experiments in the 1970s-1980s, never to come out alive[8]:
It was Uri who enlightened me regarding the Nes Ziyyona 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 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.[8]
The "hospital in Baltimore" is presumably Johns Hopkins:
Years later I met Uri again. This time he was in the Mossad, a veteran katsa in the Al department, and I was a rookie. He had come back from an assignment in South Africa. I was then a temporary help desk man in the Dardasim department in liaison, helping him prepare for a large shipment of medication to South Africa to accompany several Israeli doctors who were headed for some humanitarian work in Soweto, a black township in Johannesburg. The doctors were to assist in treating patients at an outpatients clinic for the Baragwanath hospital ...The hospital and the clinic were supported by a hospital in Baltimore, which served as a cut-out for the Mossad.
"what is the Mossad doing giving humanitarian assistance to blacks in Soweto?" I remember asking him. There was no logic to it; no short term political gain (which was how the Mossad operated) or any visible monetary advantage. "Do you remember Nes Ziyyona?" His questions sent shivers up my spine. I nodded.
This is very much the same. We're testing both new infectious diseases and new medication that can't be tested on humans in Israel, for several of the Israeli medicine manufacturers. This will tell them whether they are on the right track, saving them millions in research.[8]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Ephraim Katzir and Israeli CBW Program | article | 9 December 2012 | Richard Silverstein | Some useful insights into the history of Israeli chemical and biological weapons development and use. |
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References
- ↑ http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9341/9341.PDF
- ↑ http://www.unog.ch/__80256ee600585943.nsf/(httpPages)/7be6cbbea0477b52c12571860035fd5c?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=3#_Section3
- ↑ http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/israel/cbw.htm
- ↑ https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/israelprofile
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070208203912/http://www.foi.se/upload/pdf/israel-and-wmd-1734.pdf quote=Israel does not stockpile or produce BW in large-scale today. However, we assess that Israel has a breakout capability for biological weapons and also CW, i.e. the knowledge needed to implement theoretical knowledge into the practical management of production and deployment of CBW. The knowledge base would be the one that was built during the 1950s and 1960s where today’s advanced research can be used to upgrade potential BW and CW agents and their behaviour in the environment. We have not found any conclusive evidence that show that Israel’s offensive programs still remain active today.
- ↑ https://www.wired.com/1998/11/israels-ethnic-weapon/
- ↑ https://theuglytruth70ad.blogspot.com/2020/03/lest-we-forget-israel-planning-ethnic.html The Times article is republished here
- ↑ a b c Victor Ostrovsky The Other Side of Deception page 188-189
