While not as impressive as the claim published in the media of the Palestinian Authority several months ago (see Arab Press Review), that the Israeli army was employing female stripper-assassins against Arab stone-throwing boys, the current allegations against the IDF and Israel are still quite imaginative.
It seems that, according to the Jerusalem Times, billed as an ?independent Palestinian weekly,? the Israelis have found an ?anthrax? of their own to use against the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority: remote-controlled rabid dogs. The Times reported that IDF soldiers sent rabid dogs, with unidentified metal implants in their necks, to attack Arab children in the Bethlehem area. Three dogs were allegedly released to attack residents of the Aideh village, injuring two children. When Arab gunmen managed to kill one of the dogs, they discovered that it had a metal implant in its neck ?which may have been used to direct the dog or to know its whereabouts.? Quoting ?residents of the camp,? the weekly published the accusation that ?the weapon of the rabid dogs, which transfers disease, is no less dangerous than anthrax and? if unknown sides stand behind the anthrax, the Israeli terrorism stands behind the rabid dogs.?
Ever a source of stories about Israeli ingenuity, the Jerusalem Times also reported on the allegations made by Najeh Afana, president of the al-Aqsa Heritage Committee, in Al-Awda Magazine, that the Israelis have been digging an underground system of tunnels throughout Jerusalem. Afana told the weekly that ?The Israelis always come up with lies to keep us busy and create new realities in secret.? According to the allegations of Afana, three years ago the Israelis started digging four interconnected tunnels under the ground of the Old City of Jerusalem, thus connecting the Jaffa, Dung, Lion?s and Herod?s Gates with the Hashmonaim tunnel near the Kotel, the Silwan brook tunnel and the campus of Hebrew University, outside the walls of the Old City.
The tunnels, says Afana, are meant to simultaneously ?create a metro-like system to enable the Israelis to tighten their grip on the city? and to ?weaken structures in the area and ultimately cause them to collapse.? Why would the Israelis want to do that? ?[I]n anticipation of the greater cause, namely, building a Jewish temple,? explains the al-Aqsa Heritage Committee president, ?They ultimately plan to reach al-Aqsa Mosque and especially the area of the Dome of the Rock, where a group of underground wells that have been turned into tunnels exists? We may awaken one day to find that they have seized a large part of Al-Aqsa??
It seems that, according to the Jerusalem Times, billed as an ?independent Palestinian weekly,? the Israelis have found an ?anthrax? of their own to use against the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority: remote-controlled rabid dogs. The Times reported that IDF soldiers sent rabid dogs, with unidentified metal implants in their necks, to attack Arab children in the Bethlehem area. Three dogs were allegedly released to attack residents of the Aideh village, injuring two children. When Arab gunmen managed to kill one of the dogs, they discovered that it had a metal implant in its neck ?which may have been used to direct the dog or to know its whereabouts.? Quoting ?residents of the camp,? the weekly published the accusation that ?the weapon of the rabid dogs, which transfers disease, is no less dangerous than anthrax and? if unknown sides stand behind the anthrax, the Israeli terrorism stands behind the rabid dogs.?
Ever a source of stories about Israeli ingenuity, the Jerusalem Times also reported on the allegations made by Najeh Afana, president of the al-Aqsa Heritage Committee, in Al-Awda Magazine, that the Israelis have been digging an underground system of tunnels throughout Jerusalem. Afana told the weekly that ?The Israelis always come up with lies to keep us busy and create new realities in secret.? According to the allegations of Afana, three years ago the Israelis started digging four interconnected tunnels under the ground of the Old City of Jerusalem, thus connecting the Jaffa, Dung, Lion?s and Herod?s Gates with the Hashmonaim tunnel near the Kotel, the Silwan brook tunnel and the campus of Hebrew University, outside the walls of the Old City.
The tunnels, says Afana, are meant to simultaneously ?create a metro-like system to enable the Israelis to tighten their grip on the city? and to ?weaken structures in the area and ultimately cause them to collapse.? Why would the Israelis want to do that? ?[I]n anticipation of the greater cause, namely, building a Jewish temple,? explains the al-Aqsa Heritage Committee president, ?They ultimately plan to reach al-Aqsa Mosque and especially the area of the Dome of the Rock, where a group of underground wells that have been turned into tunnels exists? We may awaken one day to find that they have seized a large part of Al-Aqsa??