Arafat's health has deteriorated

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Palestinian sources: Arafat has lost consciousness
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service, and News Agencies

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's health has deteriorated and that he has lost consciousness, Palestinian sources said on Wednesday night. An ambulance and a team of doctors arrived at his Ramallah headquarters to check on him.

Senior Palestinian officials, including current Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, and the heads of various Palestinian security forces, are currently in the Muqata.

Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said he had seen the 75-year-old leader earlier on Wednesday, and that Arafat "was still recovering from stomach flu."

Arafat's foreign minister, Nabil Shaath, said on Tuesday that the 75-year-old leader was in pain because of serious "intestinal flu" but doctors flown in from Egypt and Tunisia expected him to be feeling much better in a few days.

Confined to his battered headquarters in Ramallah for the past two years by the Israel Defense Forces, Arafat underwent a minor diagnostic procedure on Monday after complaining of stomach pains. Palestinian officials said then that an endoscopy found no serious ailment but the president remained weak.

Shaath said the doctors had ruled out stomach cancer.

Questions about Arafat's health have raised Palestinian fears of a bloody succession struggle after his death. He has never picked a successor.

there are reports that he's got AIDS

די רבי פארט קיין פאריז פאר באהאנדלונגען. ישראל זאגט אז זיי לאזן אים ארויס, אבער זיי קענען נישט צוזאגען אז ער וועט קענען צוריקומען...

די רבי אין די שווערע אומשטאנדן...
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ער קען אויך אנטון א קוטשמע. פאר דעם אליין איז כדי ער זאל זיין קראנק...
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מ'רעדט שוין פון די פטירה...

MK Uri Ariel of the National Union made the warning today. His party colleague Benny Elon has asked the Defense Minister to give advance notice that Arafat will not be buried in Jerusalem.


National Union MK Uri Ariel warned today, "Many thousands of right-wing demonstrators will bodily prevent Arafat from being buried in Jerusalem."

MK Benny Elon, also of the National Union, has turned to Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, asking him to declare that Israel will not allow terrorist leader Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem. Other MKs have made a similar request to Prime Minister Sharon and Mofaz.

"I have no problem with not burying him at all," Elon said this morning, "but rather scattering his ashes like they did with Adolph Eichmann. But if he is to be buried at all, then at least it shouldn't be in Jerusalem." He said that such an announcement must be made before Arafat's death.

"The police must be prepared for a funeral procession in which the Arabs will try to burst into Jerusalem," Elon said. "It could be an explosive situation... We must not allow the scenes from Feisal Husseini's wild and nationalistic funeral, which was a blow to Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem, to repeat themselves." When Husseini was buried in June 2001, thousands of Arabs waving PA flags essentially took over parts of northern Jerusalem during the funeral procession. Prime Minister Sharon refused to allow Arafat to enter Jerusalem for the funeral.

MK Eli Yishai (Shas) called on Prime Minister Sharon this morning to freeze the disengagement plan, in light of Arafat's illness. The unilateral plan is based on the fact, according to Sharon, that there is no one in the Palestinian Authority with whom Israel can negotiate.

MK Chaim Ramon (Labor), too - who is working tirelessly to ensure that Israel withdraw from Gaza as soon as possible - is also concerned that Arafat's approaching death might disturb the disengagement timetable. Former Labor MK Haggai Merom mocked Ramon earlier this month, saying, "Ramon has only one goal: to make sure his son doesn't have to serve in Gaza. For him, the whole issue is just a countdown until the date his son turns 18." Ramon expressed his concerns to Army Radio this morning.

Education Minister Limor Livnat also implied that the disengagement should be held up, saying today, "If Arafat is out of the picture, it will be very easy to return to the diplomatic process and the Road Map." She said that this will still be contingent upon finding a "genuine partner on the other side."

די רבי זייענדיג אויפן פליגער ארומגענומען מיט די חסידים.
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Yasser Arafat's doctors say he likely has leukemia. Palestinian sources say Arafat's era as a leader is over.

זיי טענה'ען אז ער ליידט נישט פון לוקימיע

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=211486

PARIS Oct 30, 2004 - Initial tests show that the ailing Yasser Arafat does not have leukemia, a Palestinian diplomat said Saturday, as doctors tried to determine the Palestinian leader's mysterious illness.

Doctors have "excluded for the time being any possibility of leukemia," Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, told reporters.

"We can say his general condition between yesterday and today … is much better both physically and psychologically," she said in a brief statement. She refused to answer questions.

"The doctors exclude, already from what he has done in terms of exams, any possibility of leukemia. I repeat: the doctors exclude for the time being any possibility of leukemia," she said.

Earlier in the day, a Palestinian official who spoke on condition of anonymity said there was a strong possibility the 75-year-old Arafat was suffering from leukemia. He said specialists in the blood cancer were conducting tests to determine whether he had the disease.

שרון ערקלערט אז אראפאט וועט נישט ווערן באגראבען אין ירושלים כל זמן ער איז אויפן בענקל.

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שרון: ערפאת לא ייקבר בירושלים
יום ראשון, 31 באוקטובר 2004, 12:20 מאת: מערכת וואלה!

ראש הממשלה, אריאל שרון, אמר במהלך ישיבת הממשלה כי "כל עוד אני ראש ממשלה, ערפאת לא ייקבר בירושלים".בישיבה, שדנה במצב יו"ר הרשות הפלסטינית, יאסר ערפאת, ציין שרון כי ממשלת ישראל התחייבה לאפשר לעראפת לשוב לרמאללה, וכי זו הסיבה היחידה לצאתו מהמוקטעה. בגלי צה"ל דווח, כי שרון ציין גם שלפי שעה אין פרטנר בצד הפלסטיני, וכי אם תקום הנהגה חדשה ברשות, שתלחם בטרור, ישקול מחדש את תוכנית ההתנתקות, אך נכון לכרגע התוכנית ממשיכה לפי התכנון.

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART/811/603.html

הרופאים: ערפאת לא חולה בלוקמיה

לראשונה מאז אשפוזו בפריז מודיעים רופאיו של יו"ר הרשות: הוא אינו סובל מסרטן הדם ומצבו משתפר. הסיבה למצבו של הראיס: בעיות במערכת העיכול ובקיבה וכן במערכת הדם