# Israel is developing a weapon targeting Arabs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 2, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146 "2006-09-02T01:33:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/141 "2006-09-06T23:57:41Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Fuck. I suspected it when I saw him calling **Rune** a “danish sausage”, an unlikely term of abuse to be used by anyone who’s not a Swede (or possibly Norwegian; I don’t know). [/QUOTE] As a part-Swedish American who grew up hearing Norwegian jokes, I’m going to say Norwegian. Can I call people a “danish sausage”, too? I’m always looking for new and creative curses for other drivers on the freeway. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/142 "2006-09-07T03:46:18Z")
[QUOTE=pool] Hyperbole? [/QUOTE] Keep in mind the likelihood of either perpetuating (perpetrating?) their genes upon mankind. Frankly, I’m not really comfortable with the genes **Wildly-pulling-shit-out-of-my-ass-assterisk-assterisk-big-letter-big-letter** posesses as we speak. The thought of it spreading is horrid. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/143 "2006-09-07T03:52:01Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] Can I call people a “danish sausage”, too? I’m always looking for new and creative curses for other drivers on the freeway. [/QUOTE] No. All Swedes are racist. Your ignorance of this fact is noted. Now get off the Norwegians. Er, get off the Norwegian women. Damnit, all this talk of sausages and bikini-clad Nordic lasses is getting me confused. What the hell were we talking about? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/144 "2006-09-07T04:41:49Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] Can I call people a “danish sausage”, too? I’m always looking for new and creative curses for other drivers on the freeway. [/QUOTE] I want to call people “besserwisser.” If I can find it, though, I think the **YIDDISH** equivalent of the term would be more effective. Oh, **Wildfire** HH\*\*, es zol dir dunern in boykh, vestu meyen az s’iz a homon klaper. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/145 "2006-09-07T05:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Ih, **Wildfire** HH\*\*, es zol dir dunern in boykh, vestu meyen az s’iz a homon klaper. [/QUOTE] See, now you’re just showing off. But I think we can all appreciate a harmonious clapper. And isn’t that what it’s really all about? ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/146 "2006-09-07T05:24:22Z")
I hear the Jews are developing a secret biological weapon that will only target the firstborn of those without lamb’s blood painted onto their front doors. More seriously though, even if teh anti-Arab bio weapon were plausible, it would be really, really stupid. You can’t keep shit like that from mutating and suddenly applying to this or that ethnic group too. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/147 "2006-09-07T05:27:00Z")
[QUOTE=Apos] More seriously though, even if teh anti-Arab bio weapon were plausible, it would be really, really stupid. You can’t keep shit like that from mutating and suddenly applying to this or that ethnic group too. [/QUOTE] [Just trying to beat everyone to the punch] But they aren’t human, so it’s a moot point[/JTTBETTP] ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/148 "2006-09-07T05:29:07Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] I want to call people “besserwisser.” If I can find it, though, I think the **YIDDISH** equivalent of the term would be more effective. Oh, **Wildfire** HH\*\*, es zol dir dunern in boykh, vestu meyen az s’iz a homon klaper. [/QUOTE] Did you just say he was a homo with the clap? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/149 "2006-09-07T05:37:16Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Oh, **Wildfire** HH\*\*, es zol dir dunern in boykh, vestu meyen az s’iz a homon klaper. [/QUOTE] Hmmm… let’s see if I can decipher this: “Oh, **Wildfire** HH\*\*, is Sol dear done in boinking, 'fess to you my ass is a home on the clapper.” :dubious: Might need a bit more work… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/150 "2006-09-07T05:38:17Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] It seems to me that Sweden, since it’s creation, have done nothing but creating havoc, war, massacres, refugees, desperation, terrorists, bloodbath, hot blondes, regional tension, Saabs, hate, Volvos, traumas etc… [/QUOTE] You missed the greatest atrocity of all…Ikea! ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/151 "2006-09-07T08:12:27Z")
I remember the hoo-ha a couple years back about the Arabs pushing propaganda saying that the Jews made holiday cookies out of children’s blood extracted by putting them in a barrel studded with steel spikes or some such horserot. So when I read the OP, my immediate first thought was that it’s a bullshit scare story leaked by Israel under the assumption that the Arabs are ignorant enough to believe it. Thus any would-be attackers would be dissuaded by the Jew-Bio-Bomb From Hell, for the price of a few well-placed rumors. Not that I’m saying the Arabs are stupid, but hell, even a few Americans apparently were too dumb to call bullshit on this one. What are the Arabs going to do, **not** believe something evil and threatening coming out of Israel? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/152 "2006-09-07T08:45:20Z")
Keep Copenhagen clean. Show a Swede to the ferry\*. Just to add to the atmosphere of racial harmony and general loveydoveiness in this thread. 😉 Good thing that the UN has kept this three countries at bay, imagine a regional war that would involve tobbaco, criminal ammounts of good beer and extremelly fattening food. We can’t have that. Never again. \*Danish joke. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/153 "2006-09-07T08:48:16Z")
[QUOTE=duffer] What the hell were we talking about? 🆒 [/QUOTE] Don’t you just love it when a really, really stupid Pitting turns into a joke thread? **Miller** : _Australian_? Do I talk about prawns and barbies too much? ---
**Author:** ![Wildfire\_MM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@Wildfire\_MM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildfire_MM)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/154 "2006-09-07T11:28:03Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Don’t you just love it when a really, really stupid Pitting turns into a joke thread? **Miller** : _Australian_? Do I talk about prawns and barbies too much? [/QUOTE] …And not to mention the dark secret about Australians that many aren’t aware of ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/155 "2006-09-07T12:43:54Z")
[QUOTE=Wildfire\*\*HH] …And not to mention the dark secret about Australians that many aren’t aware of [/QUOTE] What, **Wildfire** HH\*\*, that they’re the lost 13th tribe of Israel? ---
**Author:** ![Wildfire\_MM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@Wildfire\_MM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildfire_MM)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/156 "2006-09-07T14:34:29Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] What, **Wildfire** HH\*\*, that they’re the lost 13th tribe of Israel? [/QUOTE] No, but let’s say it have something to do with sheeps 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/157 "2006-09-07T14:40:20Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Heck, find two articles in the U.S. media that were favorable! The U.S. media simply does not report anything about Sweden, figuring it is nothing more than Canada with funnier accents and more sex. [/QUOTE] Typical damned jackbooted pro-Sweden tyranny we’ve come to expect on these boards … [QUOTE=elmwood] What, **Wildfire** HH\*\*, that they’re the lost 13th tribe of Israel? [/QUOTE] Well, who isn’t? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/158 "2006-09-07T15:51:57Z")
[QUOTE=Wildfire\*\*MM] No, but let’s say it have something to do with sheeps 😃 [/QUOTE] No, you’re thinking of New Zealanders. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/159 "2006-09-07T16:13:29Z")
I am reminded of a joke that a guide told me while I was backpacking in Scotland: Why do Scots wear kilts? Because sheep can hear a zipper being opened 100 yards away. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146/160 "2006-09-07T16:34:52Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] **Miller** : _Australian_? Do I talk about prawns and barbies too much? [/QUOTE] He’s probably thinking of Princhester. Y’know, there are waaaaay to many dopers with similar names. Like I always have trouble remembering which one is **spoke-** and which one is **wring**. Capitalize, people. I always used to confuse **Excalibre** with **Exapno Mapcase** , but I’m cured now, it doesn’t happen any more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israel-is-developing-a-weapon-targeting-arabs/371146.md?page=9)