Syrian paper accuses Israel of having spread bird flu to kill Arabs The state-run Syrian daily al-Thawra lately hinted that Israel developed the bird flu virus to harm the genes of its Arab neighbors. An article published by the newspaper argues that Israel spread the virus in the Far East to mislead the world. 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...