All that matters is that he is still dead.
Paris- A leading French doctor who teaches at the Paris hospital where Yasser Arafat died in 2004 has broken the official French medical silence surrounding the case to tell The Times of Israel, based on Arafat’s medical report, that there is “absolutely no way” the Palestinian leader was poisoned.
Dr. Roland Masse, a member of the prestigious Académie de Médecine who currently teaches radiopathology at Percy Military Training Hospital in the Paris suburb of Clamart, where Arafat was hospitalized two weeks before his death on November 11 eight years ago, spoke to The Times of Israel to scotch the allegations of polonium poisoning two weeks before a group of scientists are set to take samples for testing from Arafat’s body.
Masse said the symptoms of polonium poisoning would have been “impossible to miss,” noted that Percy had tested Arafat for radiation poisoning, and revealed that the hospital specializes in the related field of radiation detection. “A lethal level of polonium simply cannot go unnoticed,” he said, speaking as workers in Ramallah on Tuesday began the process of preparing Arafat’s grave for exhumation.
Dr. Thierry Revel, the head of the Hematology Department at Percy who signed the medical report on November 14, 2004, has refused to comment on the case. Indeed, medical confidentiality laws prevent doctors in France from divulging any information on their current or past patients. It was Arafat’s family that chose to make public the late Palestinian leader’s medical report; Al Jazeera, a Qatar-based news outlet, said in July that it had received the report from Arafat’s widow Suha.
In a telephone interview with The Times of Israel, Masse said flatly that “there is absolutely no way the symptoms described in Yasser Arafat’s medical report match those of poisoning by polonium.”
Masse elaborated: “When in contact with high levels of polonium, the body suffers from acute radiation which translates into a state of anemia and a severe decrease in white blood cells. And yet Arafat did not present any of those symptoms. What did decrease was his platelets, not his white blood cells,” said Masse, who may have been prepared to discuss the case because he does not treat patients at Percy, only teaching there. (He said the medical team at Percy would have had no need to consult with him, given their high level of expertise.)
Noting that radiation detection happens to be one of the areas in which Percy military hospital excels, Masse said that while Arafat’s medical report contains no specific reference to a test for polonium, it does specify that a number of tests were conducted to check if the patient had been subjected to radioactive substances.
Polonium-210, which Yasser Arafat’s widow Suha believes may have caused her husband’s death, is a rare chemical that became more familiar to the public a few years ago when it was used to murder Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy, in London in 2006.
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Masse was in charge of “national radioactivity supervision” in France in the 1990s — as head of the Office de Protection des Rayonnements Ionisants (OPRI — the Bureau for Protection against Ionizing Radiation), which worked under the authority of the French Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labour to protect French citizens and the environment from the effects of ionizing radiation. In the job, he said, he received daily alerts about the presence of far lower levels of radioactive elements than would have been necessary to kill a man; these alerts came from waste collection sites, for example, and from people who had recently undergone medical treatments involving the application of radioactive substances.
Arafat was reported by his doctors in Ramallah to be suffering from flu in late October, 2004, and was treated by a team of Palestinian, Egyptian, Jordanian and Tunisian doctors for what were then described as symptoms of “anorexia, nausea and nasal congestion.” His condition deteriorated, and he was helicoptered to Jordan and then taken by French government jet to France and admitted to Percy.
On arrival, Arafat was diagnosed with “thrombocytopenia and persistent digestive problems,” according to his medical report. After a series of tests, the doctors specified that Arafat suffered from Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC), a blood disorder which leads to the formation of small blood clots throughout the body and can be the result of a number of diseases. Arafat’s health then rapidly deteriorated. He fell into a coma on November 3 and died eight days later.
In July, Al Jazeera claimed that tests carried out by the Institute of Radiation Physics at the University of Lausanne had found traces of polonium on Arafat’s belongings in quantities much higher than could occur naturally. A spokesman for the institute, however, said “conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not.”
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On Tuesday, Palestinian sources said, two weeks of work to open Arafat’s grave began, with the removal of “concrete and stones from Arafat’s mausoleum,” according to AFP. “There are several phases,” the news agency quoted a Palestinian source saying. “It starts with the removal of stone and concrete and cutting the iron (framework) until they reach the soil that covers the body, which will not be removed until the arrival of the French prosecutors, Swiss experts and Russian investigators.”
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The French Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for the Percy hospital, told The Times of Israel that, given the formal complaint submitted by the Arafat family over the case, the ministry “cannot comment on the case due to confidentiality of investigation laws.”
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mornin ya’ll
hey remember when the benghazi thing first happened and the idea was floated that stevens death was actually a botched kidnapping?
The thought was dismissed as wacky conspirecy
PERHAPS it was not so far fetched
Retired Admiral Says Ambassador Stevens’ Death Was a Botched Kidnapping (Video)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/retired-admiral-james-lyons-ambassador-stevens-death-at-the-consulate-was-a-botched-kidnapping-video/
or maybe he’s just senile
bwahahahahahah
The Israel Defense Forces have taken to Twitter (@IDFSpokesman) to frame the narrative before the anti-Israeli international media can do so, and it’s driving them crazy.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/14/israeli-military-live-tweets-war-a-captive-audience-for-real-time-propaganda/
hmmmm
I think I like this @IDFspoksperson
Why is this thread of mine up at 8 am and there is another thread of mine at 7 am??????
Obama and McCain are very happy…Israel not so much…
Tweet of the Year:
IDF✔
@IDFSpokesperson
We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead.
the IDF needs to go General Sherman on the gaza strip
@ rain of lead:
Why wouldthe media backlash against someone bypassing them?> They’ve been cool with Obama doing it for four years. Oh, yeah, this is Israel. But how are they going to get any more negative towards Israel than they already are? Remember them reporting “atrocities” in Janine that never happened? At least this way we can get the real scoop bypassing the biased propaganda of the MFM.
the shape of things to come
Florida restaurant owner adding surcharge on menu for Obamacare
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/15/florida-restaurant-owner-adding-surcharge-on-menu-for-obamacare/#ixzz2CIYV63CB
John Metz, a restaurant owner ., says he plans to charge his customers a five-percent surcharge and decrease his employees’ hours to offset the costs of Obamacare on his businesses.
“If I leave the prices the same, but, say on the menu that there is a five-percent surcharge for Obamacare, customers have two choices. They can either pay it, and tip 15 or 20 percent, or if they really feel so inclined, they can reduce the amount of tip they give to the server, who is the primary beneficiary of Obamacare,” Metz told The Huffington Post.
“Although it may sound terrible that I’m doing this, it’s the only alternative. I’ve got to pass the cost on to the consumer,” he added.
He owns the Hurricane Grill & Wings franchise and is the president and owner of RREMC Restaurants, which oversees approximately 40 Denny’s restaurants and several Dairy Queen stops.
“I think it’s a terrible thing. It’s ridiculous that the maximum hours we can give people is 28 hours a week instead of 40,” Metz added
@ Iron Fist:
yeah
mfm’s template….if you don’t like something, make shit up
rain of lead wrote:
This was a totally foreseeable consewuence of ObamaCare. What is going to become standard for low wage workers is to have two or even three jobs to get a regular 40-hour work-week. They won’t ever get overtime, and they won’ tbe eligible for benefits. That is, of course, if they can find two or three jobs to actually work. That will be another problem. Underemployment will become a lot more common, and it is already too common.
Storagemanager wrote:
Never pay attention to DEBKA File.
@ Speranza:
everything they said was true…Hamas did go to Iran..some of the weapons bombed last night were in fact from Iran….
@ Iron Fist:
no,no,no
it obamas plan to LOWER unemployment
the mans a genius you see
you fire one full timer and replace him with three part timers
voila…
lower unemployment
genius i tell ya
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if you missed it
Iron Fist wrote:
Of course it was. I mentioned yesterday that Medved was discussing election stats and he said that Romney carried “middle class” voters by 6 points, with “middle class” being defined as household income of $50K-$100K. Among those with household incomes $50K and over, he won by 8 points.
I wonder what the percentage of all Obama voters pay no income tax at all? I’d expect they’re his single largest constituency……if not a majority.
Anyone who thinks that it’s not in Democrats’ best interest to expand the ranks of low income Americans is ignoring glaring facts to the contrary.
rain of lead wrote:
“The IDF’s March to the Sea” does have a catchy ring to it, doesn’t it?
Storagemanager wrote:
The broken clock being right twice a day yadda yadda … DEBKA FILE is a notoriously inaccurate sensationalist blog which is worthy of National Enquirer and yes the National Enquirer got the John Edwards thing right.
@ MacDuff:
Well, more than “PokeHamas -- Gotta kill ‘em all.”
Israel is not America…they kill the enemy…America gives them guns..
@ Speranza:
The story was right…that is why I posted it.
MacDuff wrote:
Exactly! The Democrats want to destroy the Middle Class, yet they ortray themselves as the protector of it! And the Republicans let them get away with it. We need a Republican Party that knows how to fight, and which fights to pick. We need a Republican Party that thinks strategically. Hell, I’d settle for a Republicna Party that knew how to think tactically. We got beaten because of inferior tactics in the last campaign. We didn’t get our voters to the polls in the critical states. In any event, as I have commented before, the Democrats want to destroy upward mobility. They want a rigidly stratified society. One where your birth determines your future. They want the Welfare Class to be bor into welfare, live on welfare, and die on welfare. They’d like to get rid of the middle class entirely, and then have the rich elites (themselves) born into the ruling class. There dream is an anti-American nightmare.
@ MacDuff:
The muzzies always say they want to push the jews to the sea. If they march the IDF with the muzzies infront of them to the sea, doesn’t this satisfy them?
Then the IDF can have a big beach party afterwards…
@ Storagemanager:
Obama is the most anti-Catholic President the United States has ever had, yet a majority of Catholics voted for him. Of course, he is also the most anti-Israel President we’ve ever had (possibly the most anti-Semitic, too) yet a large majority of Jews voted for him. All I can conclude from this is that these people don’t take their religion seriously. I know that to be the case with Jews (many, perhaps most even, who are secular), but I am surprised by the Catholic vote.
@ MacDuff:
Bomb it into rubble, then line up the bulldozers (Catapillar!) and push the rubble into the Mediterrannean. Problem solved.
@ Iron Fist:
I know…my SIL voted for Obama and she is Catholic….her Husband and Daughters did also..
@ Storagemanager:
As I said yesterday, militarily Egypt can do nothing. If she tries to fight Israel, the Israelis will destroy them in detail. However, that doesn’t mean the Egyptians won’t try to do something. The Egyptians are Islamists, and Islamists are bugfuck insane.
@ Iron Fist:
They love death…more than we love life….that is a quote..
Obamacare is the law of the land…expect more…
Storagemanager wrote:
I say give them plenty of what they want.
2013: A Century Of Progress
Yes he will lie…America has lost its leaders..
Storagemanager wrote:
Storagemanager wrote:
wait and see, he may surprise you
Iron Fist wrote:
Don’t be surprised, “fallen away Catholics” likely outnumber those still practicing -- I guess you could actually call them secular Catholics. Even among the fallen away, old habits die hard and one of those old habits is voting Democrat. I remember the old-time Catholic churches used to host the meeting of the local “Democratic Club” in the school cafeteria.
Republicans have actually done better in national elections than one would assume, considering the generations-long grass roots organizing by the Democrats.
Storagemanager wrote:
Good gawd, it reads like clever parody, doesn’t it?
MacDuff wrote:
I agree -- see Biden, Joseph R.
Storagemanager wrote:
And what is he going to do about it?
Speranza wrote:
Or Pelosi, Nancy or Kennedy, [Insert First Name Here]
Speranza wrote:
just another small reminder that a shitstorm is coming down on the ME one day…Islam is not rational, hence they will never understand any state that defends themselves
Good morning.
Interesting , if depressing stat in Todays Chicago Tribune.
The Dems in the last six elections have one 18 states
& DC to give them 242 elcecotral votes.
This was an article by Steve Chapman & if it
is true , that means that Republicans really have to thread
the needle.
Storagemanager wrote:
Qatar is now becoming a big hotbed of Wahhabism. They are buying tons of stuff in Europe, etc… Militarily he can do nothing but they are always pushing. just like those socialist idiots from the Chicago teachers union. Always trying.
@ Speranza:
The real question is what is Obama going to do about it. It is no secret that Obama dislikes Israel, and supports the terrorists, I mean the Palestinians. What he’ll do about it is another question. But support for Israel is mostly a white, Evangelical thing in America and the Democrats have made it plain that they don’t want any of those votes. Throwing Israel under the bus won’t have any significant electoral consequences for the Democrats, and that is the only thing that has been holding Obama back from a more actively anti-Israel agenda. The fact that he wants Susan Rice for Sec State is enough evidence of this.
@ Iron Fist:
Don’t worry, the jewish vote in the US will stop him….
( I really have to stop taking heroin so early in the morning… )
Iron Fist wrote:
The American people support Israel and we are not yet impotent. When Obama started acting like a dick in 2009 -10 even Chuck Schumer called him out on it. The problem is as he told Medvedev “This is my last election and afterwards I have more flexibility”.
@ Iron Fist:
Has to do with being Democrats -- they take being a Democrat far more seriously than they do Catholic. I finally had enough of my “friend” who would have voted for Hitler if he was a Dem -- I emailed her that frankly, I’d appreciate it if she dropped me from her Xmas card and email lists. She called me a sore loser, to which I replied “not sore. Disgusted. Making sure the Democrat kept his office was more important to you than lies, smears, bankrupting the country and a singular attack on the religion you supposedly follow. It makes me sick to think the way you all attacked George Bush for Iraq, for Katrina and for the debt and you give this smarmy loser a pass.”
It was going to be either Susan Rice or Samantha Power -- pick your poison.
@ Speranza:
What they are doing in Syria. Fund the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda and now Hamas.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Good for you. Actually they are sore winners.
Rodan wrote:
Qatar would get squashed like a cockroach if they messed with Israel.
Iron Fist wrote:
Yup, what Egypt will do now is allow Al-Qaeda fighters to go to Gaza to support their Hamas brothers. This is what Turkey has done in Syria. The Egyptians will not try anything against Israel until the MB takes over Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
RIX wrote:
Good morning, RIX.
Romney won those with household incomes of $50K-$100K by 6 pts, and those with $50K and over by 8 pts. I’d be willing to bet that Obama’s electoral strength was in inverse proportion to income (excepting, of course the LimoLiberals, who aren’t that many in number), with that 48 percent who pay no income tax, and the EITC crowd, being his largest voting bloc.
As to your point, the Democrats have been successful in a strategy of largely picking off the big urban areas in the blue states and forsaking all else. Back in the day, the Republicans had “the Southern Strategy”, now the Democrats have “the Urban Strategy” -- with “urban” meaning just what you’d think it means.
Hillary has agreed to testify next month in “open” session
about Benghazi.
A Clinton would not lie under oath, right?/
@ Speranza:
They are not the ones fighting. They are the pay masters. The Jihadis don’t care about dying. This is not the Arab Nationalists, these guys love to die. See Syria as an example.
The OIC has 57 Islamic states…they will act as one.
@ Iron Fist:
Obama is Pro Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi will make Obama choose, Israel or the Caliphate.
Iron Fist wrote:
The Republicans need to shed the Wall Street image (which is a joke anyway since Wall Street supports Democrats) and have a more Main Street image. In a sense the Republicans need to be what the Democrats were in the 1940′s, 50′s and early 60′s the Party of the Middle class/Working class.
Rodan wrote:
Even Obama will not choose the latter.
@ Storagemanager:
With the exception of Iran and Hizballahstan. They are fighting AQ and MB now. This is a 3 way conflict.
OIC is where Obama made his gaffe
@ Speranza:
My next post addresses that.
@ MacDuff:
Good morning Mac, you are spot on.
Paul Ryan got slammed for racism for making that
same obvious point.
That is an example of why it is impossible to have
an honest discussion about race.
If everything is racist, then nothing is.
Speranza wrote:
how do you know?…he was raised a Muslim.
Storagemanager wrote:
Hamas used to get weapons from Iran. That is not the case anymore. Hamas turned on Iran and is now in the Turkey/Qatari/Muslim Brotherhood block.
@ Storagemanager:
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully …
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=0
@ Rodan:
JPOST said the weapons bombed came from Iran.
@ Storagemanager:
They are old weapons, not the new ones Hamas has.
@ Speranza:
She saw me in the BART station last night and walked by saying “I’m no longer speaking to you” to which I snotted “and yet you apparently needed to TELL me that.”
@ Storagemanager:
He loved the sound.
@ RIX:
Why not? I believe it’s a Clinton family tradition.
Of course, she also has a history of “Umm….I don’t recall”
Storagemanager wrote:
Politics.
Rodan wrote:
That sound is EVIL to me.
Denny’s will now charge a 5% Obamacare surtax on food purchases at their restaurants. They are also cutting employees’ hours.
@ Storagemanager:
It sounds like the rantings of a mad man.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Ha! the very fact that she felt the need to tell you that she is no longer speaking to you tells me that she really wants to speak to you.
@ Speranza:
he has nothing left to run for….now he just rules…
Carolina Girl wrote:
She agreed to an open session, so she is feeling pretty confident.
Clintons consider the truth just a strategy, when it is more
useful than a lie.
@ Carolina Girl:
I know how you feel. I didn’t have contact with oneof my primary martial arts instructors for the last three years of his life because he was an ardent Democrats and I didn’t want to deal with it. And that was before this election. Basically, the Democrat voters voted for economic collapse. They’d rather get free stuff for the next five or ten years, then fight it out in the ruins. They are going to get what they want. I just intend to get my family ready for the inevitible collapse. I used to look at that kind of thing a s a nice luxury, but Obama’s re-election pretty much guarantees economic collapse. Yeah, if we got the right President and Congress right now we could grow the economy out from under its debt burden, but four more years of trillion dollar plus deficits will put the economy in too precarious a position. We won’t be able to grow the economy because the interest alone on the debt (not to mention all the entitlements) will suck up too much money.
here we go
@ Iron Fist:
Romney won the White Catholic vote, but got slaughtered with Hispanic Catholics. This is because honestly, Romney did not try to go after the Hispanic vote. He allowed the Democrats to demonize him, plus Obama’s micro targeting.
Rodan wrote:
My SIL and her whole family voted Obama..they are white Catholics.
@ Speranza:
We had a disagreement awhile ago and I simply stopped speaking to her. Didn’t feel the need to broadcast it.
The funny thing is, she is one of the most bigoted people I’ve ever seen -- she is continually commenting about someone’s ethnicity when criticizing them. I asked her once in an email “what has your belief that the woman is black and Asian and Filipino got to do with the fact that she spoke too loudly on the bus?”
Trumpka has spoken, “The fiscal cliff is a manufactured crisis”
Brilliant!/
@ Storagemanager:
White Catholics went for Romney.
@ Rodan:
I am not sure that the Hispanic vote is winnable, frankly, no matter how they target it. Obama is the most anti-Catholic President in the history of th eUnited States. I mean ever. We’ve never had a President try to interfere with Church matters the way Obama has. Yet these Catholics voted overwhelmingly for Obama. Sorry, but that is even worse than the Jewish vote. These people would vote for Adolf Eichmann if he ran on the Democrat ticket. How do you win that over?
RIX wrote:
There’s no such thing as an “honest discussion about race”. In retrospect, what we should have done during the Civil Rights Era was just that… ..protect civil rights, and prohibit discrimination. Legal machinations like “affirmative action” and other attempts to codify interpersonal behavior has poisoned the atmosphere. I hate to say it, but there’s a lot of blacks who have a chip on their shoulder that they pass down to their children; their status as an “oppressed minority” literally defines them.
@ Storagemanager:
What was their reason?
Storagemanager wrote:
That is the damage Chris Christie did to the Republican ticket. That man should be persona non grata from the Republican Party from here on out. If he wants to run for President, let him try it as a Democrat.
And back I go for day two of the mediation. Don’t get to take my laptop today, unfortunately. See you all at lunch….sigh.
Rodan wrote:
One niece is gay….and the family liked Obamacare….and Mitt Romney killed a guys wife…yes…they bought it…
Iron Fist wrote:
He has no national appeal.
Carolina Girl wrote:
She sounds like a real liberal -- loves humanity and hates people.
@ MacDuff:
Affirmative Action, Social Promotions & Minority
Set Asides have just made things worse.
We have thrown Billions of dollars at it for about
50 years and what has gotten better?
Hell you could almost say that Obama is a minority
set aside President.
@ Storagemanager:
One thing we better have learned from this is that dirty campaigning works. Frankly, we should be worrying about Harry Reid’s pederasty rather than Romney’s tax records (Google Harry Reid Peerast, and you’ll see what I mean). We need to get down in the mud and cut their guts out. The High Road is for losers.
Obama lied yesterday
@ Iron Fist:
Bush got 44%, so that argument is not true. The South used to be Democrat until Nixon did Southern Strategy. It took 2 decades, but by the 90′s the South was Republican. The GOP never gave up on the South and it paid off. Heck White Catholics were Democrat, now they lean GOP. So the whole Hispanic vote is not winnable is not true.
The key is not to win the Hispanic vote, just get 40% and the Dems are toast. The only way to do this is to create infrastructure. This article explains it.
As for the anti-Catholic thing, the media never played that angle nor did the GOP do a good job on this. Plus if you are bombarded with ads saying Republicans hate you, you will not vote for them.
Read the article and explains what needs to be done.
Storagemanager wrote:
Micro-Targeting!
It works!
@ Iron Fist:
The Catholic Cardinals, Bishops & Priests stood up to Obama
& tried to rally the troops.
All they got was a split & Obama will now punish them.
Any of my fellow Catholics who voted for Obama have no
right ton scream “foul.”
The battle lines were drawn & they went to the other side.
New Thread.
RIX wrote:
You can say that about the whole so-caled War on Poverty. Just as many people today live in poverty as they did when Johnson announced this. That is by design. Only a fool could look at how the so-called War On Poverty was conducted and expect any different result. The whole intendt of Welfare is to engender a dependent class that will vote for the Party of Government because that is where their checks come from. All it has been is a large, tax-payer funded vote-buying experiment, and it worked. They’ve created a large dependent under-class of permanent welfare recipients who vote Democrat. hat was the real key to Obama’s re-election.
@ Iron Fist:
A dependent population produces loyal Democrats.
if you can buy them with someone else’s money, why not?
@ Iron Fist:
The biggest problem is the definition of poverty. It’s usually x% of the population live below $x,000 dollars per year. Those numbers are just easy goal posts to move. Poverty will always exist no matter how you change it.
RIX wrote:
My parents were old-school Democrats; my father used to tell me “Democrats are the party of the working man“. Now they’re the party of the non-working man.
@ MacDuff:
I was raised the same way, FDR was considered a saint.
Then my mother let slip that she always voted Republican.
Iron Fist wrote:
You want to pollute the sea?
I thought Arafat died from food poisoning. Something about a dirty weenie….
Or did some one already mention that?