Arafat's Illness Explained
During the past week, or thereabouts, of watching the Palestinian response to Yassir Arafat’s illness and his decline into a coma, there have been several rumors and innuendo batted about as to the cause of his illness. Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath has attempted to quell some of them in a press conference just minutes ago, watched live on Fox News Channel.
He begins by announcing that there is no malignancy or cancer in Arafat and that doctors have ruled out poisoning. He then offers this explanation:
"Doctors want, by and large, favor the explanation that his age, the last 75 years old, difficult life; the last 3 and ½ years incarcerated in a very small office, and which had very little oxygen, and very bad sanitary situation, insieged by the Israeli Army, have contributed to the situation."Of course, the Israeli’s are responsible. He went on to rule out euthanasia.
The man is sick. We don’t know nor are we likely to ever know the real cause of his ailment nor the symptoms for that matter as his entire organization and the French medical team supporting him are incapable of speaking the truth. Then again I could be wrong, after all, Foreign Minister Shaath said:
"We are a people who believe in God."
