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Issue No : 68 4th November, 2013

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“Israel” approves 1,500 new settlements in occupied

Jerusalem

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Fourteen suicides in Israeli army in 2012

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Israel’s Historyof Chemical Weapons Use

Hamas sets a trap for Israeli soldiers

inside the Khan Younis Tunnel

4 martyrs of resistance elements while blocking Israeli incursion

“Israel” releases 26 Palestinian prisoners, kidnaps 50 others

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By: Dr. Elias Akleh

Resistance in Gazadowns an Israeli drone

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CONTENTS

News of Palestine

Articles & Analyses

Israel’s History of Chemical Weapons Use 13

Fourteen suicides in Israeli army in 2012 12

Israel Insider

Hamas sets a trap for Israeli soldiers inside the Khan Younis Tunnel 4

Resistance in Gaza downs an Israeli drone 5

Knesset to approve a bill to divide al-Aqsa mosque 6

“Israel” releases 26 Palestinian prisoners, kidnaps 50 others 7

Netanyahu urges Obama to continue financial aid to Cairo 8

Power outage across Gaza as fuel runs out 8

“Israel” approves 1,500 new settlements in occupied Jerusalem 9

Prison administration threatens sanctions on administrative prisoners 10

Syrian army kills Palestinian refugee family 11

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News of Palestine

1/11/2013

An Israeli Military source has revealed on Friday that the tunnel which was dug previously by the Palestin-ian resistance and discovered by the Israeli occupation two weeks ago was used by Hamas as a trap to kill or kid-nap Israeli soldiers. The source said that, Hamas fighters were hiding at the entrance of the tunnel ready to attack the Israeli force once entering the tunnel. Ac-cording to the source, if this scenario took place, Hamas would be able to kidnap Is-raeli soldiers. However, an Israeli force led

by the head of Gaza-brigade in the Israeli army and equipped by tanks and bulldozers advanced 100 meter into the Gaza strip aiming at destroying the discov-ered tunnel from the top, and once the digger started digging in the ground to destroy the tun-nel, it hit a bomb that was im-planted by Hamas fighters inside the tunnel; the bomb exploded causing many injuries among the Israeli soldiers.Following the operation, dozens of Israeli soldiers advanced into Khan Younis using armored ve-hicles, firing a number of mis-siles and dozens of rounds of live ammunition. The Palestin-

Hamas sets a trap for Israeli soldiers inside the Khan Younis Tunnel

ian resistance confronted Israe-li soldiers to block the Israeli incursion, where four Palestine resistance elements were killed in the shelling according to Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.Al-Qassam said that Khaled Mohammad Abu Jom’a, 35, Mohammad Rasheed Daoud, 26, Mohammad Omar Al-Qa-ssam, 23, Rabee’ Baraka, 23, were killed during ensuing clashes with invading Israeli soldiers. The Israeli authorities admitted the injury of 5 Israeli soldiers during the clashes.

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4 martyrs of resistance elements while blocking Israeli incursion

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Resistance in Gazadowns an Israeli drone

3/11/2013

Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip declared, on Sunday, that it managed to down an Israeli drone flying over the northern part of the Gaza Strip.The fighters managed to control the drone and downed it in an open area in northern Gaza, while Israeli sources admitted that the drone did not drop due to a technical error. The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters managed to down the drone.This is the second time armed groups in Gaza manage to down an Israeli drone, as the Al-Qassam Brigades declared during the latest Israeli war on Gaza, a year ago, that it managed to down an Israeli drone, and documented the incident. An Israeli military spokesperson stated Sunday that the drone fell inside the Gaza Strip, effectively falling in the hands of the resis-tance. He said that the drone landed and crashed due to a “malfunction”, an issue that the resistance challenged.

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Knesset to approve a bill to divide al-Aqsa mosque

2/11/2013 The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heri-tage said that Israeli Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs will submit to the Knesset on Monday a bill to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque temporally and spa-tially between Muslims and Jews.The bill came in harmony with an Israeli media campaign aiming to introduce it to the local, re-gional and international public opinion.The Foundation warned of the seriousness of the bill especially that it was proposed by the parties participating in the coalition government includ-ing Jewish Home and Likud parties in addition to number of MKs representing other Israeli parties.The Foundation revealed two weeks ago a detailed copy of the proposal according to which Jews would be able to visit al-Aqsa Mosque to perform Talmudic rituals. It has also made several reports

in different languages concerning the issue.The Foundation stressed the urgent need to save al-Aqsa mosque from the Israeli schemes and dangers, calling for intensifying the Palestinian presence in the Islamic religious site.In a related context, Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli soldiers continued to storm al-Aqsa Mosque aiming at creating a new reality on ground and pav-ing the way for dividing the mosque; where 33 set-tlers broke into the holy Islamic site and toured its various courtyards on Tuesday besides over 50 Israe-li school students also broke into and desecrated the Aqsa Mosque. On Wednesday, more than 30 Israelis broke into the holy site in groups, while on Thursday, around 30 settlers including women and children en-tered the holy site via the Maghareba gate led by a rabbi. Source: Agencies

Israeli settlers continue to storm al-Aqsa daily

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“Israel” releases 26 Palestinian prisoners, kidnaps 50 others

30/10/2013

The Israeli occupation author-ity (IOA) released 26 Pales-tinian prisoners, who were serving life sentences, after midnight Tuesday.

Five of those released arrived at Beit Hanun (Erez) cross-ing, north of the Gaza Strip, at dawn Wednesday to a popular welcome ceremony. Dozens of relatives waited for the released captives despite the delay in their arrival, waving flags and banners of various factions.

Hamas, in a terse statement, welcomed the release of pris-oners, renewing its pledge to

work for the release of all prison-ers.

The release of those prisoners was part of a deal between the PA in Ramallah and Israel to renew ne-gotiations that also included PA’s approval not to join international institutions and to give a blind eye to Israeli settlement activity.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces have launched an arrest campaign against leaders and members of Hamas in the West Bank on the eve of the release of 26 Palestinian prisoners. Promi-nent Hamas leaders, Jamal Al-Taweel, Hussin Abu Kwaik, Faraj

Abu Rummaneh, Adnan Abu Tabbaneh and Maher Bader were among over 50 Palestin-ians arrested.

On the other hand, the Pales-tine center for studies said in its monthly report that the Israeli occupation forces rounded up 390 Palestinians in October in-cluding 65 children. It pointed out that IOF soldiers launched more than 240 raids into vari-ous West Bank cities, towns, and refugee camps in addition to occupied Jerusalem.

Source: Agencies

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31/10/2013

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked US President Barak Obama not to cut or delay American aid to Egypt amidst fears that the Camp David peace treaty may collapse.

Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that one of the key issues Netanyahu discussed with Obama when the two met at the White House on 2 October was US aid to Egypt.

According to the newspaper, Netanyahu told Obama that cutting the aid could undermine the US brokered peace treaty. Netanyahu explained that aid cuts would put the Egyptian govern-ment under popular pressure, which could lead to a violation of the peace treaty.

Netanyahu, the newspaper claimed, also told Obama that US aid to Egypt plays a central role in maintaining order in the region.

Source: MEMO

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A shortage of fuel halted the production of electric-ity across the Gaza Strip on Friday, said the energy authority of Hamas-led government.«We have completely stopped the operation of (Gaza›s sole) power plant this morning at 6 a.m. because we don›t have a single litter of fuel,» Fathi el-Sheikh Khalil, the authority›s deputy chairman, told AFP.An AFP correspondent in the Gaza Strip said the electricity supply had been cut off across most of the territory. Khalil blamed the power outage on Egypt›s destruction of tunnels used for bringing fuel to Gaza.«Less than 50 percent of the needs of the Gaza Strip are currently covered by electricity from “Israel” and we can no longer get Egyptian fuel due to the destruction of tunnels from Egypt, we tried to get fuel from Israel via the Palestinian Authority, but it has imposed prohibitive taxes « he said.The Gaza plant supplies about a third of the electric-ity the territory of 1.75 million people needs.«The plant will remain shut until fuel supplies resume from Egypt through the tunnels or the Rafah border crossing, or from Israel if the Palestinian Authority agrees not to impose the heavy taxes,» said Khalil.In September, the Gaza energy authority warned of an impending shortage of fuel and called on Egypt to resume deliveries to the Strip.

Source: Ma’an News Agency

Netanyahu urges Obama to continue financial aid to Cairo

Power outage across Gaza as fuel runs out

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“Israel” approves 1,500 new settlements in occupied Jerusalem

30/10/2013

Immediately after the release of 26 Palestinian prisoners, Is-rael announced plans to build 1,500 new settlements in the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem, as well as the con-struction of a new park near Silwan.

As part of a deal with the Pal-estinian Authority (PA), ear-lier this week Israel released the second batch of Palestin-ian prisoners who were jailed before the 1993 Oslo agree-ment, numbering 26 out of the 104 prisoners in total who will eventually be released.

Only hours after celebrat-ing their release in Ramal-lah, where the PA President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech promising not to leave any Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the occupation authorities announced the new settlement plans.

The decision to build new 1,500 units in the Ramat Shlomo settlement is part of an agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-

tanyahu and his Interior Minister Gideon Sa›ar to advance four construction areas in different parts of occupied Jerusalem.

According to Israeli media, the agreement includes establishing another tourist and archeological centre, as well as a national park, on the eastern side of the Hebrew University campus near Wadi Al-Hilwa in occupied Jerusalem.

Last week the Associated Press reported that an Israeli official, speaking on condition of ano-nymity, revealed that the Ameri-cans and Palestinians were both aware of Israel›s intentions re-garding the new settlements, which were made clear before talks resumed.

Israel›s Channel 10 television reported that Netanyahu is planning to carry out similar steps when other prisoners are released. The report said that the settlements are intended to compensate extremist Israeli officials for agreeing to the prisoner release. Many right wing Israelis have rejected the release of prisoners calling them «murderers».

According to Channel 10, Ne-tanyahu hopes to build 4,000 to 5,000 new settlements in return for the release of 104 Palestin-ians prisoners, who have been suffering in Israeli jails for more than 20 years.

Source: MEMO

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Prison administration threatens sanctions on administrative prisoners

2/11/2013

Palestinian Prisoners Cen-ter for Studies said that the administration of the Israeli Negev desert prison on Sat-urday morning threatened the administrative prisoners to de-prive them of the canteen and all their rights if they contin-ued their protest steps.

The prisoners told the center that few days ago the prison administration gathered all the administrative captives and put them in one section, then doubled the number of soldiers

guarding the section to facilitate imposing sanctions against them in case they continued their pro-test steps to end the administra-tive detention.

They added that the administra-tion is continuously threaten-ing to impose tough sanctions against them, including depriv-ing them of the canteen.

The prisoners pointed out that this new threat came after the administrative prisoners in Is-raeli jails began on Friday their second protest steps represented in stopping taking medicines and

boycotting the prisons’ clinics.

For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners Center warned of a real danger threatening the lives of administrative captives because of the escalation of their steps and the occupation ongoing threats against them, and called for supporting them by all means. It also appealed to international organizations to intervene to protect the de-tainees and to assist them in achieving their just demands.

Source: PIC

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Syrian army kills Palestinian refugee family

2/11/2013

Four members of a Palestinian refugee family in Syria were killed on Friday night whilst trying to flee the continuous shelling of Palestinian refugee camps by Bashar al-Assad›s army, Action Group for Palestinian Refugees in Syria said.

According to Action Group, a number of other Palestinian refugees were wounded in the same incident. «They were targeted by a rocket whilst they were leaving Al-Sabeenah Refugee Camp,» the group said.

It also added that the Assad regime forces broke into several refugee camps on the outskirts of Damascus, and «that caused a large number of families to flee at night.»

According to the Action Group, Palestinian refugees who remain in those camps are «worried.» They ran out of all kinds of food because of the two-month siege and shelling by the regime army.

Meanwhile, Action Group said that the Syrian regime released a number of Palestinian refugees it had ar-rested in different incidents earlier. Some of them were asked to pay a ransom.

A number of Palestinians refugees are being killed daily by the Syrian regime attacks on the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria.

Most of the refugee camps, mainly in the outskirts of Damascus, are under strict siege imposed by the Syrian regime›s army. Some of them have been under siege for more than six months.

Source: MEMO

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Israel Insider

28/10/2013Data provided by the Israel Defence Forces has revealed that 14 serving soldiers committed suicide in 2012. It is said that just around a third of the suicides were recent immigrants to Is-rael. The figures were discussed by the absorption and immigration committee of the Knesset (parliament) on Monday. The focus of the discussion was the suicide rate among newly-arrived migrant soldiers.

General Eyal Brechter, the Chairman of the IDF›s Psychological Health Department, warned that «revealing such sensitive data would encourage suicide among soldiers». He said that of the 4 soldiers who committed suicide and were recent migrants, two were from the former So-viet Union, one was from Ethiopia and the other was from New Zealand.

The Director of the Studies and Information Centre; Dr. Shirley Avrahami, insisted that it «is important to raise the debate about the issue while the subject of suicide among soldiers is not a state secret». The Centre›s representatives were quoted as saying that the suicide rate among immigrants is «worrying».

Apart from the 14 suicides in 2012, 8 Israeli soldiers died in road accidents, 7 died from dis-ease, 5 died due to «excessive training» and 3 were killed in accidents which occurred during exercises; two more drowned. Source: MEMO

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By: Dr. Elias Akleh

The UN chemical weapons in-spectors, who went to Syria to investigate the use of chemical weapons, should have stopped on their way at Occupied Pal-estine (Israel), where Israeli government has the largest stockpile of chemical and oth-er WMD in the entire Middle East. They would have found a lot of evidence and witness ac-counts of Israeli use of chemi-cal, as well as biological and nuclear, weapons against the Palestinians and their Arab neighbors. The attacks started in May 1948 and are still going on in one form or another.

The Zionist gangs under the directive and leadership of Da-vid Ben-Gurion, who became the first Israeli Prime Minister, had adopted a military policy of genocide, extermination and total destruction of the indig-enous Palestinian inhabitants and their towns in order to evacuate the land for outsider Zionist Jewish occupiers. The first WMD they used was bio-logical weapons as documented by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

In May 1948 the Zionist gangs besieged the well-fortified Pal-estinian city of Acre, which

Arab civilians, who refused to evacuate the city as ordered by the Zionists. Some of them were captured by the Zionist terrorists and were forced at gun point to drink cyanide; the case of Mohamed Fayez Soufi is one example as documented in “The Palestinian Catastro-phe” by Michael Palumbo.

This crime of poisoning Acre’s water supply leading to the fall of the city, the forceful evacu-ation of its inhabitants, and the looting of its treasures, whetted the appetite of the Zionists to repeat the crime. They tried it again in Gaza against the Egyp-tian forces, but failed. The two Zionist infiltrators, who were sent on this mission, were cap-tured by the Egyptians. The following cable was sent from the commander of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine to the Gen-eral Headquarters in Cairo:

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could stand the siege for a long time. The city water supply came from a nearby village name Kabri through an aqueduct. To shorten the siege and to enter the city, the Zionist gangs injected typhoid in the aqueduct. Many Palestinians and some 55 British soldiers, who were in the city, got infected. This crime was called operation “Sh-lach Lachmecha” as described by the Israeli military historian Urin Milstein [Wendy Barnaby’s “The Plague Makers: The Secret World of Biological Warfare”, London, Vision Paperbacks, 1997, pp 114-116]

The ICRC delegate Mr. De Meu-ron, sent a series of reports under the reference of G59/1/GC, G3/82, from 6th to about 19th of May 1948 describing the conditions of the city population as struck by a sudden typhoid epidemic and re-quested efforts to combat it. The minutes of an emergency meet-ing between Mr. De Meuron and the British Medical Services offi-cers stated that the infection was “water borne”. Burdened by the epidemic the city fell easy prey to the Zionist gangs, who went into a killing spree and a systematic looting campaign as reported by Lieutenant Petite, a French UN observer. He reported the cold-blooded murder of at least 100

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Intelligence forces captured two Jews, David Horeen and David Mizrahi, loitering around army positions. They were interrogat-ed and confessed they had been sent by officer Moshe to poison the army [and the peoples’] wa-ter supply. They carried with them water bottles divided in the middle. The top part has potable water and the bottom part has a liquid contaminated with typhoid and dysentery, equipped with a rear opening from which the liquid can be released. They confessed they were members of the 20-strong team sent from Rehovot for the same purpose. Both have writ-ten their confession in Hebrew and signed it. We have taken the necessary medical precau-tions.”

In his book “War Diary” Ben Gurion confirmed the attack in an entry found on 27th of May 1948 where he stated: “[Chief of Staff Yigal Yadin] picked up a cable from Gaza saying they captured Jews carrying malaria gems and gave instructions not to drink water.” The Israeli au-thor Yeruham Cohen wrote more about this cable in his book “In Daylight and Night Darkness”; Tel Aviv, 1969, pp66-68 (in He-brew). The two Zionist agents; Horeen and Mizrahi, broke out of prison but were captured again and executed.

The Zionist crimes did not stop then, but targeted Egypt and Syria. On 22nd of July 1948 the [Palestinian] Higher Arab Committee (AHC) submitted a 13-page report to the UN accus-ing the Jews (the term Israelis was not used then) of using “in-

the center of Arab resistance to foreign occupation of any Arab country. Syria has established training centers in Qatana to prepare Arab volunteers to join the Arab Rescue Army in Pal-estine. Egypt and Syria, thus, became the main targets of Zi-onist gangs.

In his 220-page continually updated report under the title “Bioterrorism and Biocrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents since 1900” Dr. W. Seth Carus of the Center for Counter proliferation Research, Nation-al Defense University, Wash-ington, DC, lists the following subtitle p. 87: “Case 1947-01: Zionist Terrorists 1947-1948.” He mentioned that the cholera outbreaks in Egypt and Syria had received extensive atten-tion in the press. The first re-port about the cholera in Egypt was published in the Times of London on 26th September 1947 p.4. By the time the final cases appeared in January 1948 about 10,262 people had died.

The cholera outbreak in Syria was first reported by the New York Times on 22nd of Decem-ber 1947 p. 5, but was limited to only two towns, Carus stat-ed. The Syrian army formed a cordon sanitaire and the casual-ties were limited to 44 includ-ing 18 deaths. Soon after, the Orient; a Lebanese French-language newspaper reported that several Zionist agents, who employed the cholera germs to disrupt the mobilization of the volunteers army were arrested.

Assi, the son of Israeli Gener-al Moshe Dayan, wrote in his memoir published in Yediot

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During the summer of 1947 the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was sent to Pal-estine and its neighboring Arab states proposing the partition of Palestine giving about 54% of the land to new Jewish immigrants who con-trolled only 6% of Palestine

humane” weapons and waging a genocidal war against the Arabs through the use of bacteria and germs. The report accused the Jews of spreading Cholera in Egypt and Syria in 1947/48. The award-winning journalist, Thom-as J. Hamilton of the New York Times picked up the story and published it on 24th of July 1948.

During the summer of 1947 the United Nations Special Com-mittee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was sent to Palestine and its neighboring Arab states propos-ing the partition of Palestine giving about 54% of the land to new Jewish immigrants who controlled only 6% of Palestine. Their proposition was met with fierce opposition from the only two strong Arab countries; Egypt and Syria, recently freed from the French Mandate. Syria was

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that during the war his father brought home tubes containing typhus. He explained that the in-tent was to drop these tubes into the water supply of the Jordani-an Legion. Before the plan was implemented one of the tubes broke and Assi got infected.

Naeim Giladi is an Iraqi Jew, who was lured to Israel by Mossad agents in early 1950s. He was a zealot Zionist, who lat-er on left Israel after discovering its barbarism and immigrated to the US. He told the editor of The Link in New York that he discov-ered that within the Israeli Ash-kenazi establishment “there was not much opportunity for those of us who were second class citi-zens. I began to find out about the barbaric methods to rid the fledgling state of as many Pal-estinians as possible. The world recoils today at the thought of bacteriological warfare, but Is-rael was probably the first to ac-tually use it in the Middle East. Jewish forces would empty Arab villages of their population often by threats, sometimes by gun-ning down a half-dozen young men so that the Arabs could not return. The Israelis put typhus and dysentery bacteria in the wa-ter wells to prevent the refugees from returning.” [The Link, Vol. 31 Issue 2, April-May 1998]

Avner Cohen, a senior member at the Center for International and Security Studies, and the Program on Security and Dis-armaments at the University of Maryland, wrote a comprehen-sive paper on Israel’s chemical and biological weapons. His pa-per titled “Israel and Chemical/

Biological Weapons: History, De-terrence, and Arms Control” was published in the Non-Prolifera-tion Review in autumn of 2001.

Cohen stated that Israel’s chemi-cal weapon started with David Ben Gurion’s doctrine: “the de-struction of the Palestinian so-ciety in Palestine is a necessary condition for the establishment of the state of Israel on its ruins. If Palestinians cannot be removed by massacres and expulsion, they shall be removed by extermina-tion.” To accomplish this exter-mination Ben Gurion wrote a letter to Ehud Avriel; a member in the Jewish Agency in Europe, ordering him to recruit East Eu-ropean Jewish scientists, who could “either increase capacity to kill masses or to cure masses; both are important.” Experts in microbiology such as Ernst Da-vid Bergmann, Avraham Marcus Klingberg and the brothers Aha-ron and Ephraim Katachalsky, were recruited to form the Sci-ence Corps in the Haganah which later was named HEMED. Later a new branch within HEMED, devoted to biological weapons was formed and called HEMED BEIT. This branch is publi-cally known as Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) and it expropriated the mansion of Shukri Al Taji; a Palestinian, near the settlement of Nes Ziona as its research center.

For years the IIBR center was developing chemical and bio-logical weapons in secret until 4thOctober of 1992 when El Al Flight 1862 crashed into a high-rise apartment complex in Bi-jlmer, Amsterdam while on its

way to Tel Aviv carrying three crewmen, one passenger and 114 tons of freight. The crash was considered the worst air disaster in Dutch history killing at least 47 and destroying the health of 3000 Dutch residents. Cases of mysterious illnesses, rashes, difficulty in breathing, nervous disorders and cancer began to sprout in that neigh-borhood. After several years of deep investigation Karel Knip, the science editor in the Dutch daily NRC Handelsbland, pub-lished in November 1999 the most detailed and factual report about the workings of the IIBR.

Knip revealed that the plane was carrying a shipment from Sokatronic Chemicals of Mor-risville, Pennsylvania to IIBR, under the US Department of Commerce license, in viola-tion of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Among the shipment there were 50 gal-lons of DMMP; a substance used to make a quarter ton of the deadly nerve gas Sarin, 20 times as lethal as cyanide. He discovered that at least 140 bio-logical weapon scientists from the IIBR have strong links with Walter Reed Army Institute, the Uniformed Services Uni-versity, the American Chemi-cal and Biological Weapons Center in Edgewood and the University of Utah. He also discovered close cooperation between IIBR and the British-American biological weapons programme, as well as exten-sive collaboration on biological weapon research with Germany and Holland, which explains the reason for the Dutch of-

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ficials keeping silence over the crash over Amsterdam.

The numbers and details of the Israeli chemical and biological attacks against Palestinians are many and require large volumes to document. During the Pales-tinian Intifada the Palestinian youths were used as test subjects for new chemical weapons; toxins and incapacitates. James Brooks of “Just Peace in Palestine/Is-rael” gave detailed accounts of these attacks on civilians day by day as they happened; describing the severe convulsions, the burn-ing sensation, the difficulty to breathe the vomiting and pain the victims of these attacks had suf-fered. The documentary “Gaza Strip”, shot by the American filmmaker James Longley, docu-ments Israel’s use of chemical weapons on Gaza residents. Such attacks were repeated in the West Bank cities of Al-Bireh and Nab-lus. Dr. Khamis Al-Najjar, the di-rector of Cancer Research Cen-ter of the Ministry of Health in Ramallah, Palestine, highlighted in his February 3rd. 2003 report an alarming increase in cancer cases, especially among women and children. The report covers the period between 1995-2000 and shows 3,646 cases, mostly women.

Israel’s continuous use of chemi-cal/biological weapons against Palestinians was most prominent in March 2001, October 2003, and June 2004 as investigated by these reports. Israel also used poison gas attacks against un-armed Palestinian civilians in Gaza in February 2001 as doc-umented here. Israeli Mossad agents had also used chemical

Technology Assessment titled “Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risk”, pages 63-65, records Israel as a country possessing an offensive biological war-fare capability and a long-term, undeclared biological warfare program. In 1983 The CIA produced a special report on Israel’s weapons program, but deleted this page dealing with the chemical weapons.

With Syria giving up its chemi-cal weapons, now is the per-fect opportunity to enforce the chemical weapons convention on all the countries in the re-gion, including Israel, to free it from this WMD. Contrary to what Obama said, the conven-tion does not specifically re-fer to just the use of chemical weapons, but also to its produc-tion and storage.

Will Obama, the peace-prize winner, prove that “the United States has been the anchor of global security … for nearly seven decades” as he claimed in his speech and demonstrate that the Americans are really “ex-ceptional” as he boosted, or will he turn a blind eye to the Israeli criminal chemical attacks and the largest stockpile of WMD, like his many predecessors???

Dr. Elias Akleh is an Arab writer from a Palestinian descent born in the town of Beit-Jala. His family was first evicted from Haifa after the “Nakba” of 1948, then from Beit-Jala after the “Nakseh” of 1967. He lives now in US and publishes articles on the web. This article was origi-nally published by GlobalRe-search and appeared in JUST

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weapons in their assassina-tion attacks against Palestinian leaders such as Hamas Leader Khaled Mesh’al, and Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, and are highly sus-pected of using nuclear poison in assassinating Yasser Arafat.

The whole world knows very well that Israel has been manu-facturing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and has the largest stockpile of these WMD in the Middle Eastern region. In March 2003 the BBC televi-sion presented the documentary “Israel’s Secret Weapon” inves-tigating Israel’s development of chemical/biological/nuclear (CBN) weapons.

The successive American ad-ministrations are very well fa-miliar with Israel’s CBN weap-ons. The US Congress Office of

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