BEDUIN SAYS ALIENS MADE HIM MURDER SON

At 3:30 AM, July 27, 1997, Said Karumi, a Beduin Arab from Ofakim in Israel's
Negev Desert walked into the Beersheva Police Station holding his infant
son. He told the receiving police officers that, "Aliens are after me." He
released one hand from around his son's waist and pointed to the sky.

He then exited the police station and walked to a nearby service station
where he bought five shekels worth of fuel in a bottle. He continued on to an
empty lot, doused himself and his son with the fuel and ignited both. Said
survived the flames but his son did not. When police arrived and asked him
why he incinerated his son, he just pointed to the sky.

It was later discovered that Karumi had never been treated for psychological
disorders nor was he considered mentally unwell by the Ofakim Social
Services office.

One could easily dismiss this incident as a simple case of a nut over-
influenced by the media's obsession with aliens. However, the Beduin are
one of the few peoples left in Israel who cling to their traditions and are not
under the deep persuasion of Western culture.

Further, Karumi's was not the only case this year of a Beersheva Arab who
claimed to have been in contact with what appear to be demonic aliens. Last
October 14, a Beduin, Dr. Bashad, who is a European educated physician
and his friend Massoud drove to Beersheva for a night of relaxation. They
stopped to pick up what seemed to be a stranded driver by the side of the
road. After Massoud asked if he was in trouble, the "stranded driver" slapped
his hand to the side of the door and it adhered tightly to it. Massoud
stared at the stranger and screached as he saw "a horribly mutated face." 
When Dr. Bashad caught a glimpse of the creature, he sped away trying 
to ditch it. But it leaped twenty feet in the air and readhered itself to the car. 
It clutched the speeding vehicle for several kilometres before disappearing.

The veracity of the incident is reinforced by the respected witnesses and by
the fact that on the same night, another Arab ninety miles away had a similar
experience. Abdul Alhazrad has driving near Jenin in the West Bank, when
he spotted what he thought was a hitchhiker by the side of the road. He
invited the hitchhiker inside and after he drove away, "To my shock, he
changed into a man with a dog's head." The creature had long, floppy ears
and one eye at the base of his dog-like nose. Alhazrad braked his car and
ran away. The being followed him but soonafter disappeared.

October 14 was a pretty busy night. Two demonic creatures stood by the
sides of two roads, transformed themselves from humans into monsters,
terrified three reliable Arab witnesses, gave chase then disappeared into the
atmosphere.

As I reported previously, in the Autumn of 1996, a wave of demonic
creatures were seen at close distances by numerous Arabs (and two Jewish
women in Tel Aviv). An actual UFO landing was witnessed by a family of
Arabs in a village outside Haifa was reported during this wave.

Unlike the entire Israeli media, I am not automatically dismissing Karumi's
murder of his son as the act of a madman. There have been too many similar
"madmen" among Israeli and territorial Arabs in the past year. Karumi's case
may fit a pattern noted by Dr. Jacques Vallee in his book Passport to
Magonia: