Syria accuses Israel of creating the bird flu:

An article published by the newspaper argues that Israel spread the virus in the Far East to mislead the world.

Yes, those Jews are quite tricky that way.

The newspaper backed its suspicions by citing a 1998 report in the Sunday Times that Israel is developing a biological “ethnic bomb” that would kill Arabs and not Jews. According to the Times, Israeli scientists are trying to identify genes characteristic to Arabs and then develop viruses that attack these genes. The newspaper said the program is being carried out at the Institute for Biological Research in Nes Tsiona near Tel Aviv.

I'm sure that the Israelis will be marching in the streets, calling for beheadings, and burning embassies any minute, at this outrageous libel.

The "Sunday Times"? As in the Times of London!?

Or is this the Sunday Times of Damascus? Or the Sunday Times of some jihadi's fevered paranoid imagination?

Most Jews and Arabs are of the same ethnicity, right?

This hasn't prevented four major wars in the last century

Those wily Jews, what a nutty bunch. Oy!

Why shouldn't Israel be working on weapons that are gene specific? It works on bugs; it should work on people. If I were in charge of the U.S.A. effort, I'd be running balls out on this one.