KVJ skrev for en tid tilbake
>...Selv i spaltene til KK, hvor man skulle ventet å
>finne kulturkritikk, er den i regelen fraværende. Noe så himmelropende
>grotesk som Israels forsøk på å lage en genbombe, altså en åpenlys
>videreførelse av nazistenes utvikling av folkemordsteknologier, vekker liten
>debatt, og i "kulturelle" kretser omgis det av total likegyldig taushet - en
>fatal svikt - et tegn på en dødsens farlig form for apati.
At dette ikke diskuteres, KAN skyldes at saken om "genbomben" er for "god"
til å være sann. Vedlegger en kommentar i Haaretz fra 20. november:
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Was Times bombed by sci-fi story?
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By Ronen Bergman and Sharon Gal,
A short story described by its Israeli author as "completely imaginary and
lacking any foundation in reality" bears a striking resemblance to the
substance of a report in this week's London Sunday Times about Israel's
development of an "ethno-bomb" that would only target Arabs.
The Sunday Times' story, written by its Middle East correspondents Uzi
Mihnaimi and by Marie Colvin, claimed that Israeli scientists at the
Biological Institute in Nes Tziona were trying to exploit medical advances
by identifying distinctive genes carried by some Arabs and then create a
genetically modified bacterium or virus.
The intention, according to the Sunday Times report, is to use the ability
of viruses and certain bacteria to alter the DNA inside their hosts' living
cells, and then to engineer deadly microorganisms that attack only those
people bearing their distinctive genes.
But Doron Stanitsky, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and the owner of an
economic consultancy firm, says he may be the source of the story.
Two years ago, Stanitsky, who says he has nothing to do with security
matters, wrote a fictional story that sounds very much like the one
published by the Sunday Times. Stanitsky printed 80 copies of his work and
sent it to Israeli newspapers, emphasizing that it was pure fantasy.
Stanitsky's story is about Prof. Arnaki (a play on har naki, the Hebrew for
the surname of Marcus Klingberg, a former top official at the Nes Tziona
facility, who was sentenced to a lengthy prison term for spying for the
Soviet Union).
Arnaki, who has been serving a prison term for espionage, has been granted
parole, but the prime minister demands that he remain behind bars. It turns
out that years before, David Ben-Gurion had ordered the Nes Tziona
institute to develop vicious bacteria in "Operation Seed of Amalek." Arnaki
developed a virus capable of attacking only Arabs. The only problem was
that the virus might also target Jews of "Oriental" origin.
Arnaki asks Ben-Gurion's permission to kidnap a few hundred infants of
recently arrived Yemenite families, promising to return them after the
virus has been tested on them. Ben-Gurion vetoes the idea but after he
resigns the operation goes ahead. But something goes wrong and the children
contract the virus and die.
The prime minister convinces the president of the Supreme Court to leave
Arnaki in prison to ensure that the news of the experiment doesn't leak
out, and the story ends with a quotation from a Supreme Court decision
holding that Klingberg should not be released. According to Foreign Report,
the Israeli research was completed two years ago, which was when
Stanitsky's story circulated. It also says that "the prime minister of the
time" knew of the research, without naming him, again as in the Stanitsky
tale.
Uzi Mihnaimi said in reaction that "there is no connection between
Stanitsky's fantasy story and the report in the paper." He denied ever
reading the story. The Times foreign editor, Sean Ryan, said it was
"nonsense to claim th story was based on fiction... We stand behind it
completely."
Making the parallels even more striking is that a planned second part of
the Sunday Times article, they claimed Klingberg's release was blocked for
years by the security establishment because he had been involved in
developing an "ethnic virus" and that his release could cause damage to
state security.
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