Sharon’s Legacy

arjun_m#77
Well, his doctors might have goofed up. Apparently they concentrated on the hole in the heart and gave him blood anticoagulants after the first stroke instead of realising that he was actually bleeding in the brain.
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/01/12/ap2446671.html

Ariel Sharon`s doctors faced new criticism Thursday for failing to divulge a brain disease discovered after the prime minister`s initial stroke and for prescribing blood thinners that may have contributed to a massive second stroke.
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Doctors confirmed they knew about the disease after the first stroke, but prescribed the blood thinners anyway, a move outside experts criticized Thursday.

``If someone has a disease that caused bleeding, that causes bleeding, that could cause bleeding in the future, giving anticoagulants ... is certainly an undesirable situation,`` said Amos Korczyn, head of the Tel Aviv University Medical School`s neurology department.

#81 by sadna on January 15, 2006 1:13pm PT

We need to increase aid to Israel so they can upgrade their medical system. American tax $$, such as those contributed by maulana urstruly, will ensure that Bibi will get better treatment when he becomes the PM....

sadna/arjun -- the blood thinner coumadin or warfarin is a double edged sword -- a little more then you have a deadly stroke by brain hemorrhage -- a little less and a clot forming stroke -- it has to be just right -- now here is a conspiracy theory -- may be some Oslowite `comrades` who got rid of Arafat by putting a whit of arsenic in his qahwa -- also got rid of Sharon by increasing a whit of coumadin in his IV bag......

.....may be now that the two greatest stumbling blocks in the cause of the ME peace -- are removed -- there may be finally the light at the end of that bloody tunned.......amen

my dear naive Januja -- so much hope for your Umma from such a pair of blood dripping hands -- for so little......and for so soon

now hear the latest -- Netanyahu 13% -- the rest -- Kadima`s Olmert plus Labor`s Amir -- with shifty `Perez for Peace` in between the two ......

this is the COALITION that will rule Israel -- for the final PEACE between Israelis and the Palestinians -- despite the Hamas suicidal gundos and the Jewish homicidal unsettlers....

Oh phleeaaaze..... cry me an ocean.

If everybody in this world has to live with such broken hearts because foreigners ``stole`` their home lands then this entire world would truly be a depressing place. How many lands have been conquered by aliens throughout the history ? You don`t see all of them living with such perpetual broken hearts ? If they all have to blow-up Pizza restaurants then I am afraid we will not have any pizza-huts. Heck, may be this humble poster himself may end up blowing large number of people during their friday prayers in Lahore for stealing our ancient Hindu lands. But thankfully we know better than that. Every society other than Muslims has realized the futility of wallowing in self pity and realized the path to progress in this globalized world.

Even so, let`s see exactly how much land did Israel really occupy ? Well, it turns out the entire land of Israel is about the size of New jersey. Think about it, a land the size of New Jersey surrounded by a sea of hostile Arabs. And for such tiny piece of land Muslims are in such Maatam. Such agony at not being able to push all Jews in to the Sea ? Such Maatam at not being able to show the superioity of your God ( or may be that Crazy Prophet ) ?

Well get over it. You guys attacked Israel twice with all your might until now and they beat you fair & square. Besides, what exactly is the difference between a Palestinian and an Arab ? It doesn`t do anybody ( especially Muslims ) any good by living such perpetual state of self pity.

Hi,
I wish to remind arjun_m and others a few details... the fact is that India supported the palestienian cause for several reasons.

1)an important factor was the ``goodwill`` that supporting the palaestinians would bring India in the ME,it would definitely neutralise Pak`s advantage of claiming support for palaestinians on basis of religious brotherhood and getting the muslim countries to support it, in return, on kashmir.

2)Getting trade and other benefits from ME.who in the world needed Indian goods until now?it was the ME countries that helped Indian industry.

3)the support of countries like Egypt was crucial for non-aligned movement.the Baath parties that came into power in countries like syria,libya etc were also not fundamentalist or theocratic.. it was felt that having friendly relations with them would be useful esepcially in undermining Pak`s claim of religious brotherhood.

so its wrong to conclude that India supported Pales`s for nothing or that India did not get anything in return.maybe we didnt get as much as hoped for.. but lets not show contempt for Pales`s or fret about our past policies.

#86

What Indian diplomacy forgot (specially during Indira Gandi`s time) was the art of balance. A foreign policy controlled by ideologues (like this author) went overboard with the whole Palestinian thing. This was over above what was in India`s best interest. Images of Arafat sharing a stage with other NAM leaders damaged India`s foreign policy to some extent and damages NAM irrepairably.

In retrospect it was not that India should have abandoned the Palestinian`s but that we should have not gone overbaord with it. Foreign policy stopped being conducted with India`s interest at heart.

#85 sri {``Even so, let`s see exactly how much land did Israel really occupy ? Well, it turns out the entire land of Israel is about the size of New jersey. Think about it, a land the size of New Jersey surrounded by a sea of hostile Arabs. ``}

Sri Sri,
Oh yeah! Then are you ready to return New Jersey to the Hottentots?

re: 84

maybe naive - but polls can change and besides, netanyahu (a bonafide nutcase), olmert (a likud hawk pretending to be a centerist minus sharon`s stature) and amir ( a sephardi with little/no stature) are the same when it comes to protecting the interests of the israelis - there is no arab leader who thinks like that.

Peretz said the conflict with the Palestinians blocks the advancement of Israel`s relations with Muslim states. If Labor wins the coming Knesset elections, the party would seek a final-status peace agreement with the Palestinians by the end of the decade, Peretz said.

Israel`s existence as a Jewish-democratic state is dependent on the strengthening of the Israeli Arab minority, Peretz said.

Likud issued the following statement in response to the Labor leader`s address: ``Peretz`s speech proved that Labor and Kadima are Siamese twins proffering up the same dangerous plan for unreciprocated withdrawals from Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley. In addition, Peretz revealed a passive approach in confronting the threats posed by the radical regimes in our region.``