Unfortunately, at the time a popular regional rumor, tapping into centuries of anti-Semitic slander about supposed Jewish poisoners, had it that Israel plotted to facilitate a ‘silent genocide’ in Palestine by quietly rendering all local Muslim women infertile by devious medical means – for instance, by pumping them full of invisible gas? Soon, other pupils (and a few adults) became hospitalized, and events hit the media, causing widespread international alarm.

Seeking explanation, fellow students apparently mistook the hydrogen sulfide-like smell from nearby well-used toilets for Israeli nerve-gas. The outbreak began at Arrabah Girls’ School when a 17-year-old pupil underwent genuine breathing difficulties. Interpretations range from the idea elements within the hardline Shia regime are punishing female students for their prominent role in recent anti-government protests, in which they have removed their mandated hijabs and publicly extended middle-fingers to framed portraits of the ayatollah, to the more skeptical view it is all just an outbreak of mass hysteria.Įvents strongly recall another such panic in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 1983, when 1,000 Muslim schoolgirls fell similarly ill, something attributed by many Palestinians at the time to attacks by Jews.

He dropped the atomic bomb on Japan and was continually brow beaten by his mother-in-law.As recently detailed in Providence, since late November cases of alleged chemical assault using unknown poisonous gases have been endemic amongst Iranian schoolgirls, 5,000 of whom have now been hit or even hospitalized by vomiting, dizziness and fainting fits. He loved fast cars, bourbon, and beating the socks of Winston Churchill in poker. He failed at farming and business before entering politics. He married his Sunday school sweet heart and was a World War I war hero. Truman was a poor Missouri farm boy born in 1884. Truman is a series of short personal stories about the human side of the 33rd President of the United States. Give 'em Hell! A Killer History Tribute to Harry S. He dropped the atomic bomb on Japan and was continually brow beaten.

Give 'Em Hell by Marek McKenna