The OP mentions “a biological weapon that would harm Arabs while leaving Jews unaffected”.
Implicit in the notion is that Jews constitute a race (and for that matter, the Arabs). It is worth repeating, from Astro’s second link:
Hey, there are even Chinese Jews (where’s the orthodox Jewish smiley guy when you really need him?)
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Hey it’s from 1991, so it trumps 1998 
How the fuck are you sure that “the Jews” are even thinking about such a thing?
And you, too, asshole. How do you know that that nation is “even considering such a thing”?
I’m currently working on a biological agent that’ll target assholes and conspiracy nuts.
It gives 'em gas.
Holy shit, man, you may have solved the energy crisis!
Although setting up collection points might be a problem…
No there aren’t. I asked if there were any Chinese Jews at a Chinese restaurant one time. The waiter told me there was orange jews, apple jews, grape jews and pineapple jews, but no Chinese Jews!
Riiiiigggghhhhtttttt.
Practicing a religions changes ones DNA.
Riiiiigggghhhhtttttt.
Uh, hey dumbass-ever consider that the whole story was made up by someone who just wanted to smear the Jews?
:dubious:
Ya think?
:rolleyes:
So, the Holocaust was not an act of genocide?
No, it was an orange roller coaster dishwasher.
I mean, if we’re going to start debating in incoherencies and all.
Pardon me in advance for appearing as such a common simpleton in front of an audience full of such infallible sages, but are there not genetic differences between ethnic Jews and your typical Palestinian, just as there are between white, blacks, Asians, and yes even Aleuts?
Something has to say: two ethnic African gametes produce offspring with dark skin, dark eyes, wiry hair, two Asian gametes produce almond-eyes, straight dark hair, etc.
I know they are not 100% accurate but there are genetic tests to determine one’s heritage.
As much as it pains some of you to admit it, there are physical differences between whites, blacks, Asians, etc. It doesn’t mean one is any better or worse than the other.
Of course, it’s a far leap from recognizing differences to killing all of one race with what all of another race is effectively immune to, but I felt that this needed to be pointed out.
Hitler’s dishwasher?
WTF? 
I was responding to a very specific sentence, which I took the time to C&P, that we have enough to worry about with what people are doing without worrying about what people are thinking. I never commented on the article or the assertions of the OPer. I sure as hell never posted anything indicating I agree with him. So you can dial down your hostility, mkay? :dubious:
Semitic origin Arabs and Semitic origin Palestinians are likely to be very close genetically, and developing a genetically targeted weapon that will effectively parse out these differences and exploit them, without whacking off a good chunk of the weapon users population is effectively impossible even in some super duper future science scenario. The populations are too close genetically.
NB to OP; please actually read your quote instead of mearly indulging in pseudo intellectual masturbation e.g. :
[quote]
The “ethno-bomb” is reportedly Israel’s response to the threat that Iraq may be just weeks away from completing its own biological weapons."]
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
NB to me: please use preview 
Try telling that to my people, who are now living in massive refugee camps on the borders of Candyland and on the beaches of the Butterscotch Sea.
You unfeeling bastard.
So let’s review who we know has been thinking about this.
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Well, you might be able to work out something based on dietary or behavioral differences between the two groups, eg design a bug with a toxin pathway that’s only switched on in the presence of lectins from the fruit of a Baghdad date palm cultivar or some such. It’d be a lot of work, but perhaps not truly impossible.