Israel's Sharon Suffers Significant Stroke

[albion]

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a "significant" stroke Wednesday, a hospital official said, after Sharon was taken to the hospital from his ranch in the Negev desert.

Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef said Sharon suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, is under general anesthetic and is receiving breathing assistance and was being taken for treatment. Cabinet Secretary Yisrael Maimon said Sharon's authorities have been transferred to his vice premier, Ehud Olmert.

In a brief statement outside the hospital, Mor-Yosef said Sharon had suffered "a significant stroke," adding that he was "under anesthetic and receiving breathing assistance."

Channel 2 TV said Sharon was suffering from paralysis in his lower body. Analysts on Israeli TV stations said he life could be in danger. Channel 2 TV said he was taken into the hospital on a stretcher.

Sharon, 77, is extremely overweight, but doctors checking him after the mild stroke Dec. 18 found him otherwise in good health. Since then, his doctors said in a briefing a week ago, Sharon has lost several kilograms (pounds).

The dramatic downturn in Sharon's health comes as Sharon runs for re-election on March 28 at the head of a new centrist party, Kadima, and he enjoys a wide lead in the polls. The party's strength is centered on Sharon himself, and if he were forced to leave the scene. Israel's political scene would be thrown into turmoil.

Sharon's office said his personal physician was with him. He was taken by ambulance, a drive of more than an hour from his ranch in the Negev Desert in Israel's south, instead of by helicopter.

On Dec. 18, Sharon was taken to Hadassah Hospital from his office after suffering a mild stroke. Doctors said he would not suffer long-term effects from the stroke, but they discovered a birth defect in his heart that apparently contributed to the stroke.

Security agents and police spread out around the Jerusalem hospital before Sharon arrived, setting up a security perimeter.

Since the first stroke, Sharon has been receiving blood thinners to try to prevent a recurrence of the clotting that caused the stroke.

Sharon was to check into the Jerusalem hospital on Thursday for the procedure _ repairing a tiny hole between the upper chambers of his heart. Doctors said the blood clot that briefly lodged in Sharon's brain on Dec. 18, causing the stroke, made its way through the hold and from there to a cranial artery.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_sharon

[Starr]

This is two in just a few weeks. He is probably going to be dead within the year. He is older than the hills and massively obese.

When this was first reported on Aljazeera it sounded a lot less severe than what is reported here. I see it has changed and now more closely matches this article.

[albion]

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/04/05/images/Ariel_Sharon_eingeschnappt.jpg 5:31 p.m. ET Jan. 4, 2006

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Wednesday and was receiving breathing assistance while under general anesthetic, a hospital official said. Power was transferred to his deputy.

Sharon, 77, suffered a “significant” stroke and was brought to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital from his ranch in the Negev desert, an official said. Channel 2 TV said Sharon was suffering from paralysis in his lower body and was taken into the hospital on a stretcher.

Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, the hospital’s director general, said Sharon was under general anesthetic and was receiving breathing assistance while doctors assessed his condition.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10709976/

[Felix the Cat]

Interesting. There's an Israeli election coming up in March.

[Fade the Butcher]

My thoughts and prayers are with him. :rofl:

[Starr]

somehow I don't think you are sincere.:(

[Kodos]

9 out of 10 this will hand the PMship to Bibi.

[Starr]

9 out of 10 this will hand the PMship to Bibi.


Certainly. I remember there were rumors that said Netanyahou was involved in the assassination of Rabin. Maybe there is more to the story here.

I am only halfway joking.

[Kodos]

Certainly. I remember there were rumors that said Netanyahou was involved in the assassination of Rabin. Maybe there is more to the story here.

I am only halfway joking.

Im not aware of any poison that induces stroke specifically...

[albion]

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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Born in Tel*Aviv on October 21, 1949, Benjamin Netanyahu grew up in Jerusalem. He spent his high school years in the United States, where his father, the historian Professor Benzion Netanyahu, taught history. Returning to Israel in 1967, Mr. Netanyahu enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces and served in an elite commando unit.

Before entering political life, Mr. Netanyahu served as a soldier and officer in an elite anti*terror unit in the Israel Defense Forces (1967*72). Mr. Netanyahu participated in various missions during the War of Attrition, including the Beirut Airport operation. He took part in the rescue of the hijacked Sabena Airlines hostages at Ben Gurion Airport, in which he was wounded. He was also cited for outstanding operational leadership by O.C. Northern Command, the late Maj. Gen. Motta Gur. He was discharged from the I.D.F. in 1972 and reached the rank of captain following the Yom Kippur War.

Mr. Netanyahu received a B.Sc. in Architecture and an M.Sc. in Management Studies from MIT. He also studied political science at MIT and Harvard University.

After completing his studies he was employed by the Boston Consulting Group, an international business consulting firm. He later joined the senior management of Rim Industries in Jerusalem.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/netanyahu.html

[Ambrosio Spinola]

I dont think he will make it.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Surgeons stemmed the bleeding in Ariel Sharon's brain on Thursday after a massive stroke felled the Israeli prime minister in the midst of his fight for re-election on a promise to end conflict with the Palestinians.

"The prime minister had a CT scan that showed that the bleeding has stopped," Shlomo Mor-Yosef of Hadassah hospital told reporters after the seven-hour operation.

"He was then put in the neurological emergency unit for observation ... All vital signs are functional and stable. The prime minister is in critical condition."

Mor-Yosef made no comment on the extent of brain damage the 77-year-old Sharon may have suffered as a result of the cerebral hemorrhage, also known as a bleeding stroke. His deputy, Ehud Olmert, chaired a cabinet meeting as acting prime minister.

[Starr]

They just said on the news that some are thinking he is not going to make it or is at least not going to be able to return to public life. One of the comments came from some Palestinians who released a statement that "they will miss him" LMWAO:222:

[zenero]

Haha the Kosher swine is brain dead, brain dead means ---> He's breathing through a pipe <---



Sharon Unlikely to Return to Power (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180660,00.html)


JERUSALEM — The life-and-death struggle of Minister Ariel Sharon continued into a second day Thursday after the Israeli prime minister suffered a massive stroke.Sharon remained in stable but severe condition at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem after doctors performed a seven-hour surgery to stop the bleeding in his brain. At a mid-afternoon press conference (around 7 a.m. ET), Hadassah Hospital Director Shlomo Mor-Yosef said Sharon was under anesthesia on a respirator in "deep sedation" and would be on a ventilator for at least the next 24 hours. More 'here' (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180660,00.html)

Honor your enemy, that's what people told me. Well, something that doesn't have honor, cant receive honor.

[Felix the Cat]

Interestingly, it seems he was "cursed" by the same guys who "cursed" Rabin shortly before he died

'Pulsa denura' instigated against Sharon (http://www.bnainoach.com/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=148)

Far-right activists instigated a pulsa denura - Aramaic for 'lashes of fire' - death curse against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last Thursday night in an effort to thwart the upcoming disengagement plan.

The ceremony was held late Thursday night at the gravesite of Shlomo Ben-Yosef, a Betar member who was hanged by the British in 1938 for firing on an Arab bus in protest of numerous attacks by Arabs on Jewish targets.

Ten rabbis and kabalists, including Yosef Dayan - who instigated the same curse several months prior to the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin - assembled at the gravesite, which is located near Safed.

Far-right extremist Baruch Ben Yosef, who participated in the ceremony, told The Jerusalem Post that "The ten men prayed to god for him to rid us of the evil murderous dictator Sharon."

Ben Yosef said that the gravesite was chosen because, "Shlomo was the antithesis of a Sharon."

"Ben Yosef gave his life for the Jewish people and refused to recognize the British government, while Sharon does everything for himself," Ben Yosef declared.

Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz has decided in the past not to launch criminal investigations into rabbis who have instigated the death curse.

Mazuz's decision was based on a previous court ruling in the matter of Avigdor Askin, in which it was decided that the pulsa denura curse ceremony does not constitute a criminal offense.

[Starr]

Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz has decided in the past not to launch criminal investigations into rabbis who have instigated the death curse.

This is something they actually have to think about and decide on? Not to even mention bring to court?:D

[Felix the Cat]

Bad jew-jew

[Billy Score]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1070-1976381,00.html

ROFL what ass kissing. Another hero on the pantheon of the west :rolleyes:

Where is the Arab Sharon?
Tim Hames
Israel's leader could imagine a new Middle East — if only his neighbours shared his courage



THE GRAVEYARDS, Charles de Gaulle once remarked, are full of indispensable men. Ariel Sharon would doubtless agree.
De Gaulle and Mr Sharon have more than a sense of irony in common. Both were brilliant yet immensely controversial military men, prone to viewing “orders” as mere advice to be assessed on its merits. Each rose to the highest office late in life and after a long period of political exile. And both were accused of betrayal by their most enthusiastic original supporters — de Gaulle for driving through Algerian independence and Mr Sharon for forcing the closure of Jewish settlements in Gaza.



The main differences between the two are that the Israeli Prime Minister was considerably more successful as a commander on the battlefield (then again, he did not have to lead the French) and that he is consistently more modest.

De Gaulle was not an indispensable man, because the Fifth Republic that he imposed on France was strong enough by the time of his resignation to cope with his departure. Mr Sharon will not, despite the understandable concerns to the contrary, be indispensable either because he has already altered Israel so much that the political landscape that he primarily shaped can also endure after his death, incapacity or retirement. It is not true that the “peace process” has depended upon him staying in power. The die is already cast on the Israeli side of that dialogue. It is not, alas, anything like so well established on the other side.

Mr Sharon’s dispensability can be explained by three factors. The first is that his recent moves have been an effect of, as well as a cause of, reform. Like de Gaulle, he defined and personified the “legitimate Right”. His personal credibility as the man who had saved his nation in 1973 (de Gaulle, of course, merely spent 30 years behaving as if he had single-handedly saved his country in the mid-1940s) meant that, if he ruled that an initiative was compatible with Israel’s security, that was the end of the debate as far as mainstream centre-right opinion was concerned.

By accepting Ehud Barak’s withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon when he became Prime Minister (the ultra-Right wanted to send soldiers back) and by determining that the Gaza Strip had to be abandoned wholesale and that, in principle, certain West Bank settlements would have to be dismantled as well, Mr Sharon has ensured that at some moment all this will happen. If he had died in 2003, however, the outcome might have been different. Furthermore, Mr Sharon, stubborn perhaps but never sentimental, switched his position because an overwhelming military and political logic convinced him to do so. That rationale remains as impressive an imperative for future leaders as it has been for him.

Mr Sharon’s new Kadima political movement has not been a personal plaything but is the inevitable consequence of the changed direction of Israeli politics. A vast space had opened for a party that was tough on security but was willing to make territorial concessions, that was broadly secular while having genuine respect for those who were devoutly religious, that favoured market economics but nevertheless understood the need for a social safety net for Israelis.

Likud had ceased to be capable of representing such an outlook. The Labour Party does not seem to be able to do so, either. Kadima is, thus, not a fan club but a force of political nature.

All of which means that Ehud Olmert, Mr Sharon’s protégé, deputy and today the acting Prime Minister, is a far better than average bet to be a permanent successor. Kadima might have needed Mr Sharon to start it; it does not, though, require him to maintain it. He may turn out to have been its Moses figure. If he had died or been removed earlier from political life, even in the first half of 2005, it may not have developed as it has.

The dilemma for Israel and the peace process is not that Mr Sharon cannot continue to serve as Prime Minister. It is that there is no equivalent to Mr Sharon in the Arab world. There is no one willing to acknowledge publicly that the Palestinians cannot have all that they might want, just as Israelis cannot have everything they might desire.

There is no one prepared to state what is absolutely obvious, namely that any return to the boundaries of 1967, let alone those of 1948, is a ludicrous notion. There is no one willing to declare openly that not only do those who surround Israel have to recognise its right to exist, but that their societies will thrive only when they begin to emulate the democratic values, economic ingenuity and cultural diversity that explain why Israel’s gross domestic product exceeds that of its vastly more populous neighbours combined.

For while the lessons of Mr Sharon’s life and contemporary Israeli history have been about change, the story of the wider region has been one of depressing continuity. Only Jordan under King Hussein and King Abdullah has had the imagination to break the mould, though the admirable Hashemite monarchy is constrained by extremely limited resources.

The rest have been unable to muster the moral and political strength to entertain the possibility of their equivalents of leaving Lebanon, discarding the Gaza Strip or of a partial retreat from the West Bank. There is instead a political culture in which ruling elites officially blame the existence of Israel for their national woes and oppositions damn both Israel and the ruling elites for their own difficulties. This is, in effect, the division between Fatah and Hamas that the parliamentary elections in the Palestinian Authority is brutally exposing.

De Gaulle transformed France in large part because the rest of Europe had been transformed by others. Mr Sharon has transformed Israel and been transformed by Israel. The tragedy of his end is not the event itself, it is the absence of events around it.




If i were english i would be ashamed.

[Felix the Cat]

Unhistorical nonsense

It was not Sharon who "saved his nation" in 1973, but Henry Kissinger

[Starr]

He is breathing on his own. Praise the Lord!

He is probably dying of the same poison given to Arafat.

[Starr]

Is it possibly he is finally going to kick the bucket. Why don't they just pull the plug, he is practically brain dead, isn't he?

The condition of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, has worsened and his life is in danger, a hospital spokeswoman said.


On scanning Sharon's stomach(that must be a scary place) on Saturday, doctors discovered that his digestive track had been seriously damaged, said Yael Bossem-Levy, spokeswoman for the Hadassah Ein-Kerem hospital where Sharon is being treated.

In light of the damage, it was decided to immediately operate on Sharon, Bossem-Levy said in a statement.

The operation has since commenced.

"Sharon's life is in danger," Bossem-Levy told The Associated Press in a phone call after the statement was issued.

His condition is now "very serious, or critical," she said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/homepage

[albion]

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