From AP:
PARIS - Physicians specializing in the treatment of leukemia were examining ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Saturday to determine whether he suffers from the blood disorder, Palestinian sources said.The 75-year-old Arafat has been sick for the past two weeks and blood tests have revealed he has a low platelet count — a possible symptom of leukemia, other cancers or a number of other maladies.
Arafat received a transfusion of platelets shortly after being rushed Friday to France for treatment at the Hopital d'Instruction des Armees de Percy, a military teaching hospital southwest of Paris that specializes in blood disorders and trauma care.
A Palestinian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was a strong possibility that Arafat was suffering from leukemia and that a team of French physicians specializing in the disorder had examined the Palestinian leader on Friday....
Israel long refused to guarantee that if Arafat leaves his Ramallah base he will be allowed to return — a refusal that kept the Palestinian leader pinned down in his compound. But Israel, concerned it would be blamed if his health condition worsened, lifted the ban on Thursday and promised to allow Arafat to return.
In the usual gesture of goodwill the Israelis have wished Arafat a speedy recovery and have said he is welcome back to Israel.
How often do we see these gestures by Israel, only to be spat at, insulted, treated like S**, and occasionaly killed by human homicide bombers by Arafats men?
And France sees him as a "leader of the resistance"? A Pox on France, it seems no one except the Arabs like them any way...I know the Italians cant stand them.
Arafart... tis time to meet your maker. And something tells me neither of you's gonna be happy with your record on Earth...
No martyrdom and 72 virgins for you, eh? You and your ilk lend substance to the classical literary term "the banality of evil"....
Kinda shaemful there exists no decent hospitals in Palestinian areas to treat even your loudship, eh? No arab county had hospitals good enough for your expensive tastes? And all those pilfered swiss bank $$, what happens to them, eh? Suha arafart living in paris, not in the 'occupied trerritories' anymore? why, so - the company of her own people not good enough for his loudship's spouse???
I would so like to scream "Die Arafish, die" but nah, you're barely worth the effort...
The current edition of the BBC radio show 'From Our Own Correspondent' carries a report on Arafat's evacuation by helicopter. The woman reporter, Barbara Plett (sp?) gushingly describes how she cried with emotion while watching his departure, overcome, she suggests, because she has shared the 'siege' with the Palestinian people...This wasn't so much a news report as a description of a transcendental religious experience.
Don't the BBC governors realise the harm this constant pro-Palestinian, pro-Iraqui insurgent bias is doing to the BBC's traditional reputation for impartial and unemotional reporting? The bias isn't restricted to news reports either. In recent weeks there has been a barrage of radio plays glorifying female suicide bombers in Iraq, and 'peace activists' shot while protesting against the evil Israelis.
In WW2 Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose broadcast their venom from Berlin and Tokyo. Today their equivalents broadcast from London.
I had lunch with Pierre Rehov acclaimed French documentarian "The Silent Exodus, The Road to Jenin," "Holyland: Christians in Peril," "Hostages of Hatred") in New York last Monday, We talked about Arafat's "condition." No secret-see first Chapter in Ephraim Karsh's book "Arafat's War"- that he was caught on film in flagrant delectus in Roumania by the Communist dictator Ceaucesceau's secret police and that Mossad has copies of the films. This has led to the speculation that Arafat may have AIDS or a variant thereof. Pierre and I speculated that he might be flown to Paris to the Instiute Pasteur or a very private clinic there, where he and his fanily have received treatment.
Now we find that he's in a very secure French miloitary hospital noted for its medial work on blood disorders and trauma. A medical reseracher in New York when asked about Arafat's "mysterious" illness indicated that while Leukemia seemed probable, he wouldn;t rule out AIDs-like symptoms.
If the truth came out, how would the Arab male world react to this shaming, eh?
For all the anguish, harm, misery,and death that this one scum bag alone is responsible for, I wish nothing less for this human maggot than a slow agonizing excruciating painful death. Upon his death his carcass should be burned and his ashes mixed with pig slop and fed to a barnyard full of swine.The only thing left of the miserable bastard would be little piles of pig shit.
- The only way that the duplicitous, reptilian Arafat could ever convince anyone that he's truly ill... IS TO DIE!!
BAH!! Latest news here from Paris is that, though the medicos don't know so far what's ailing him, whatever it is, alas, it's NOTHING TERMINAL....