Arafat's illness not life-threatening

Rumour has it that Arafart is down with AIDS, in which case his 'recovery' will be as delusional as his dream of a Palestinian state 'extending from the Jordan river to sea'.

Anyway, though never one to rejoice at someone's discomfiture, I'll make an exception in Arafart's case. I'm kinda disappointed Providence didn't take him to meet his maker.

Notice how many prominent Muslims leave their sharia governed paradises for the West when they need medical help. I thought Egypt and Jordan have hospitals. And I know Saudi Arabia has hospitals.

All Arab and other Muslim leaders seek medical care for themselves and their families from Infidel institutions or, in a few cases, from Infidel doctors flown in for the occasion. On September 10, the Mayo Clinic was full of Saudis. The Mass. General ditto -- it was there that a nurse overheard, and reported, on the hilarity of assembled Arabs as they watched the collapsing towers.

Children's Hospital in Boston is still black with abayas. Private clinics associated with Harley Street specialists in London, Swiss sanatoria in Vevey and Lausanne -- where else can the Arabs get the kind of treatment they need?

Amusing to think, in this connection, of the two most famous "Palestinians" and the similarity in their origins and medical care. Arafat, of course, was born in Egypt, and still speaks Arabic with a detectable Egyptian accent. Edward Said would have been born in Egypt, but his mother, in order to take advantage of the superior care in a modern Jewish hospital, was in Jerusalem at the time of expected parturition, which is why he was born in Mandatory Palestine. And when Said died, kepot alive for years by Jewish doctors -- as he enjoyed telling people -- it was again at a Jewish-affiliated hospital. One wonders if the circle will be closed, and Arafat will be rushed to Shaare Zedek hospital.

These things happen. People note them in passing. But they do not stop to take in their meaning. What does it mean if every single Arab or Muslim leader, after the 5-6 trillion dollars that has gone to the Arab oil states since 1973, and every Arab country turned into a weapons depot akin to Iraq, has to find medical treatment in the West, or from Western doctors? Surely there is a moral here.

Aralizard sure didn't look too sick when he got out of his transport, blowing kisses to everyone. Remember he's Muslim, so he's apt to lie to benefit himself. This "illness" is starting to look like a ploy for him to travel.

Israel should not let him come back, ever. Let him stay in France. This will combine two of America's enemies into one.

Arafat's living, even getting "better," is news right up there with Kerry winning, if he does.

from the April 12, 2004 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0412/p07s01-wome.html
$50 billion later, taking stock of US aid to Egypt
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak meets with President Bush Sunday in Crawford, Texas.
By Charles Levinson | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
CAIRO - Amid fresh fighting by US forces in Iraq, Sunday's meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and President Bush at his Texas ranch serves as a reminder of America's deep involvement in this other key Arab nation.
Aid is central to Washington's relationship with Cairo. The US has provided Egypt with $1.3 billion a year in military aid since 1979, and an average of $815 million a year in economic assistance. All told, Egypt has received over $50 billion in US largesse since 1975.
The money is seen as bolstering Egypt's stability, support for US policies in the region, US access to the Suez Canal, and peace with Israel. But some critics question the aid's effectiveness in spurring economic and democratic development in the Arab world's most populous country - a higher US priority after Sept. 11, 2001.
"Aid offers an easy way out for Egypt to avoid reform," says Edward Walker, the US ambassador to Egypt from 1994 to 1998. "They use the money to support antiquated programs and to resist reforms."
Egypt's economy is deeply troubled. Unemployment has climbed to 25 percent, foreign investment last year dropped to a 20-year low, and until recently the currency was losing value on a weekly basis. Rather than helping, American aid is "depressing the need for reform," according to former Ambassador Walker.
Meanwhile, the Mubarak regime is inching towards political reform and democratic pluralism at a pace so slow that many question the sincerity of the government's pro-democracy rhetoric.
In the past, issues like democracy and economic reform were of secondary concern to policymakers looking to shore up a friendly government. Support for Egypt jumped after it made peace with Israel in 1979.
However, US policy has changed since 19 hijackers demonstrated that bolstering stable, pro-American, but undemocratic regimes in the Middle East affected America's security. The ringleader and four of the 9/11 hijackers were Egyptian.
In 2002, the US National Security Strategy articulated a new aid doctrine, saying that money should go to "countries whose governments rule justly, invest in their people, and encourage economic freedom."
Colin Powell's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is refocusing funding priorities in the Middle East - including those at USAID's 300 person Cairo office - on economic reform, democracy, education, and women's issues.
"We're shifting our emphases to reflect changes in US foreign policy," said Ken Ellis, the director of USAID Egypt.
USAID is a government-to-government economic assistance program. It operates on the premise that economic development will spur democratic development. In the words of Mr. Ellis, "There is a correlation between strong, vibrant, open economies, and a strong, vibrant, open political system."
But many say that USAID needs to alter its approach if it is going to push successfully for substantive reform in Egypt. Ismail Sabry Abdallah is the former Egyptian minister of development and planning, and negotiated the first USAID contract on behalf of Egypt in 1974.
Now an independent economist, Abdallah says USAID needs to decrease support for the Egyptian government, and increase its support for civil society in order to realize the sort of economic and political reforms that the United States and the Egyptian people desire.
"[USAID] is distributed by the Egyptian government in an anarchic way, through personal contacts and political influence," Abdallah says.
Each year USAID gives $200 million to the Egyptian government in cash handouts to do with as it pleases. The money is theoretically conditional upon economic reforms in problem areas such as deregulation, privatization, and free trade.
Most Egyptian economists and businessmen, however, agree that few positive economic reforms have occurred.
"The role of the state in Egypt is still very similar to the role of the state in Eastern Europe in the 1960s," says Tarek Heggy, the former head of Shell Oil in the Middle East, and a prolific writer on Egyptian society. "I am not aware of much economic reform."
USAID has been ineffective at changing economic policy here because Cairo knows that in the end it will get the US money regardless of its economic policy, according to Walker, who since leaving the State Department has become head of the Middle East Institute in Washington.
"Egypt remains as anti-investment as it has ever been because we have never made our aid program conditional," says Walker.
At Sunday's meeting in Crawford, Texas, geopolitics may temper any US push for Egyptian reform as Bush seeks cooperation from Mubarak on Iraq and Israel's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
Ellis, who has been in Cairo for eight months, disagrees with the critics of USAID. The Egyptian government is making slow progress toward economic and democratic reform, he says. The doomsday prognoses are coming from those frustrated with the pace of reform, but they do not reflect the reality on the ground, according to Ellis.
"I think Egypt has made significant progress in economic reform," he said. He later added, "I don't accept the fact that [Egypt] is stagnating, and I don't accept the fact that the government of Egypt doesn't want to change."
But Ellis does concede that there is more to be done in Egypt. The country is dominated by the ruling National Democratic Party, which uses a 23-year-old emergency law to restrict civil liberties. There are strict limitations on the establishment of newspapers and political parties, and presidential elections are single-candidate referendums.
Top recipients of US aid each year
IrAQ - In 2004, it will become the largest recipient of US aid, receiving $18.4 billion.
Israel - The largest recipient of US largesse in 2003, getting $2.1 billion in military aid annually; $600 million in economic aid.
Egypt - Out of a US foreign aid budget of about $14 billion in 2003, Egypt was the second largest recipient with $1.3 billion in military aid; $615 million for social programs.
Colombia - Got $540 million to battle the drug trade, and local terrorist groups.
Jordan - Got $250 million in economic support; $198 in military financing.
Peru, Ukraine, Russia Received approximately $200 million each in economic and military aid annually.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations

SOUNDS LIKE IN STEAD OF THE MONEY IN EGYPT FOR MILITAY SHOULD GO FOR DOCTORS AFTER ALL THEY DID NOT arafat[yellow coward who is cursed] cause he has a virial infection that they french don't know what it is and remember they[french] put him in a miltiary hospital????

Part of the American Tribe
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her Give them Strength and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Defeat ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen

seams the arafat[YELLOW COWARD CURSED WITH WORMS] may have been posioned by hs own people?

Will he go back or stay in France with all that money?500,000,000

I bet he stays in France and this was his plan??

Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Defeat ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Eyes of the World to their Threat Amen

His health is life threatening,he loves sending others to die for his cause and was really sad is that Palestinians can't see through this ruse,are they blinded by the hate or just outright stupid.
Muhammad Elmasry(President) of the Canadian Islamic Congress stated that it's a widely held belief by Palestinians that any Israeli over 18 is a valid target for murdering by either suicide bombers on a bus or in public places.
The real paradoxical irony here is that if Palestine gets the Statehood status it desires,it then defaults to a "Terrorist producing country"
and will be boycotted and have sanction as well as the ending of financial aid from Americans.
Without the Jews for Muslims to blame all their ills on, the world will see that justice and peace had nothing to do with the violence against
civilians in Israel. Palestine will be an Islamic state and the Christians will be the next group to be slaughtered if they don't leave the Country.

Before you shed any more tears of Palestine,remember that at this present time homosexuals are being killed in public becuase of their offensiveness to Allah and the Quran,yes folks,Muslims are so oppressed they're being driven to take it out on Gays.
The Jews and America are the root cause for terrorism since Muslims have no self control or ability for free thought,can you now see why Muslim men agree with Islams punishing of the victims,husbands abusing wives wouldn't occur
if the wife didn't create the Root-cause for the violence.
We need to look at what Muslim females are doing to bring this violence upon themselves,and while we're at it,lets get rid of the Police since they are the root cause for creating criminals and the high murder rates by fire arms.

NO ARAFAT - KNOW PEACE

I wish I got a free vacation to paris when I faked being sick.

Arafat should not be allowed to die peacefully in his sleep. He has the blood of thousands upon thousands of innocent human beings on his hands and is directly responsible for the destruction of the humanity of the Palestinian people.

After living out his years divising ways to murder Jews may he live long enough to watch his intestines spill out of his gut while choking on his own blood.

Even his best friend the Satan does not want him... Or, it might be that this guy scares Death itself...and that is no wonder, I mean look at him. So cancer might have considered him as its next victim but then it really though about it and said "yeeeeew, no way". This is the strangest law of nature - villains always live so damn long.