Dear Yvonne...

"Same People" ? *curious look*...

for one who does not claim much knowledge about things ancient and Biblical, I'm suprised you comment with such finality on that.

They do have the same greatx 150 or so Grand daddy, (Abraham) but Ishmael's mother was ethnic Egyptian (Hagar) and there is a place in the Sinai today called "Ismailia" .. Isaac's mother was Sarah, the hebrew, who was ethnically the same as Abraham and his legitimate wife.

Genesis 11 to 12 will bring you up to speed :)

I await with eager anticipation your newly 'informed' next post :)

Dear BOAZ_David,

DNA studies are more reliable than the Bible which is mythical to some extent. From:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626606/posts

"A previous study by Ariella Oppenheim and her colleagues, published in Human Genetics in December 2000, showed that about 70 percent of Jewish paternal ancestries and about 82 percent of Palestinian Arabs share the same chromosomal pool. The geneticists asserted that this might support the claim that Palestinian Arabs descend in part from Judeans who converted to Islam. With their closer relationship to Jews, the Palestinian Arabs are distinctive from other Arab groups, such as Syrians, Lebanese, Saudis, and Iraqis, who have less of a connection to Jews."

The relation between Jews and Kurds is even closer.

Dear Boazy *benevolent smile*, I never claimed little knowledge about the ancient or biblical. You must be referring to someone else.

The bible is just not my only source of information.

LESSON 1 from Yvonne (no need for deep and meaningful biblical name-like Boaz_Ruth and certainly not in capitals) - The bible is a source, the only source for many Christians, of SPIRITUAL instruction. The clue in that sentence is- SPIRITUAL. You know the realm of the spirit, the soul if you will, not man made constructs or matters of the body.

Like the story of Ruth is not just a story about the loyalty of a daughter-in-law or how ideal daughters-in-law should behave generally. Whether she existed in fact is immaterial to the relevance of her story as an instruction, a teaching.

I am no racist as einstien (E=MC2) is one of my favourites because he questioned thought iteslf and the universe as why is not expanding.I would not worry about the Israeli instead old cold war russian equipment is on australian shores and retired dirty Aiso agents ruining the australian population by playing the corruption making money card.I have seen this as jews are great people when you get to know them .Protect knowledgable people that want progress and harmony is better.To the forum operator it is better my self and other people tell the truth to save lives than not as stoping the truth being told is also murder as a life could be saved.In some countrys people are brain washed by repatedly movie and music containg murder then act out but the old cold war values are still in communist hands as the still train the old way and that is brain washing.Look up MK ULTRA and read alot of truth .Imagine a machine gun in the hands of a student at the QUT or the melbourne university as i do not want this so the truth is better explained.My cousin and family support victims of crime and a statue in malta(valetta) was placed there by my cousin Antonio Sciortino which he sculptured.David H.

developing an ethnic bomb is one story and Israel is developing an ethnic bomb is an other story.
Personally I believe all big countries, all developed countries, all countries with security problems would like to have this kind of bombs and it seemed their cost will not be very high!
First of all USA which have the power, spent houuuhhh, plenty money for their military super machine and try to keep their empire under difficult conditions!
The Israel would like to have this kind of bombs, with so many Arabs around it. But not only the Israel.
I am sure in the future we will have this kind of bombs, may be already they exist!
Do not worry sooner or later we will have the opportunity to prove how idiots and irresponsible we (humans) are
Of cause sooner or later we will stop to be human beings but something else!!
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Dear Steven,

Every significant technology has its consequences, and an extraordinary technology may well have extraordinary consequences.
For this reason, an 'ethnic bomb' should stir a good deal of public unease. Experts may assure the public that there is appropriate regulation and that their fears are groundless. However technological 'experts' have been wrong so often in the past.

Consider the case of pesticides. In 1947, the US Department of Agriculture was given full authority to regulate the introduction and marketing of these chemicals. Over the next couple of decades, experts gave approval for the manufacture and use of what later proved to be some of the most hazardous substances ever introduced to the environment - DDT, heptachlor, EDB, aldrin, kepone, and toxaphene.

The result was an appaling threat to human and animal welfare in the form of widespread chemical pollution of land, water, and food sources.

Most of the offending chemicals have now been banned or severely restricted because of their carcinogenic (cancer-causing) or other toxic effects - but a great deal of permanent damage has already been done.

In much the same way, representatives of the early nuclear-power industry exuded confidence in the safety of nuclear reactors, yet today the disposal of radioactive waste has become a serious problem, and the very safety of the reactors is in question.

Therefore "ethnic bombs" although I personally don't see them as a viable proposition, will have to be something that will be examined very, very, carefully indeed.