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2004-11-02 Israel-Palestine
Speculation runs wild about Arafat's medical status
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Posted by Steve White 2004-11-02 12:52:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Leukemia is now highly surviveable.
There are now drugs that can even settle "blast stage", giving the patient up to a couple years of fairly normal life.

Here's hoping for something a little more fatal.
Posted by Dishman  2004-11-02 2:33:52 AM||   2004-11-02 2:33:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Well I have been hoping it's advanced Prostate Cancer. That or Advanced Colorectal cancer.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2004-11-02 3:45:19 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-11-02 3:45:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Take a look how white (anemic) his hands are:
Posted by dennisw 2004-11-02 5:51:32 AM||   2004-11-02 5:51:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041029/481/jrl10410291726
Posted by dennisw 2004-11-02 5:52:07 AM||   2004-11-02 5:52:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It is debatable whether a couple of years of life after leukemia treatment can be characterized as fairly normal at Yassir's age. But that'd be good in this case.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-02 6:53:43 AM||   2004-11-02 6:53:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The elephant in the room nobody talks about is AIDS and its opportunistic friends. Arafat's sexual preferences leave open a gaping -- eeeuuuuwwweee! -- door to infection. See the writings of former Romanian KGB chief Ion Pacepa.
Posted by VRWconspiracy 2004-11-02 7:50:20 AM||   2004-11-02 7:50:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Here this but too

CAIRO, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The brother of ailing Palestinian Authority chief Yasser Arafat is suffering from intestinal cancer and being treated in a Cairo hospital.

A Palestinian medical source told UPI that Fathi Arafat, Yasser's younger brother and former president of the Palestinian Red Crescent, was admitted to a hospital recently after his cancer worsened.

The source noted Arafat's sister, Yusra, also died last year from cancer.

The PA leader is currently being treated at a French hospital where he was admitted last week after suffering from severe stomach problems that resulted in a significant weight loss.

Unconfirmed reports said that he might be also suffering from cancer, a theory denied by Palestinian officials.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2004-11-02 9:02:42 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-11-02 9:02:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 How's that accounting of his financial holdings going?
LET'S GO! WHILE WE'RE YOUNG, OKAY??!!
Posted by Suha Arafat 2004-11-02 10:40:02 AM||   2004-11-02 10:40:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm placing my bets on not long for this world. While he may pull through - odds and circumstances don't seem to favor that.

Only time will tell.
Posted by 2B 2004-11-02 10:43:24 AM||   2004-11-02 10:43:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 How soon before some gunny in the PA figures out that Arafat is lying athwart his career path, croaking "Over my dead body?" A little funds transfer to a French doctor, a minor med error, and we have regime change.

Or not. After all, if the French allowed something like that to happen, people would get mad at them.

On the other other hand, the French can be bought, for cheap.

Rest comfortably, Mr. Arafat. You're in good hands. Really. You have Jacques' word on it.
Posted by Mike  2004-11-02 11:19:07 AM||   2004-11-02 11:19:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Where are all the accusations of Zionist poisoning and death-rays ??
Posted by Crikey 2004-11-02 1:59:09 PM||   2004-11-02 1:59:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 From the diagnostic manual:

"... symptons of Zionist death rays (Zdr) may be confused with other diseases such as cancer, bacteria, virus, hangnail or other similar diseases... oddly, the diagnosis of Zdr is extraordinarily high in a town in the Mideast called Ramallah...people claiming to have Zdr also tend to suffer from Protocols of the Elders of Zion syndrome, ritual murder syndrome and...."
Posted by mhw 2004-11-02 6:10:34 PM||   2004-11-02 6:10:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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