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>JN March 1, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 37
Ze'evi Remembers Pollard
Arutz-7 News
Knesset member Rehavam Ze'evi, the head of a parliament lobby for Jonathan Pollard, spoke Wednesday about what he calls "the botched efforts to secure Jonathan Pollard's release." Ze'evi said that the government abandoned Pollard in concentrating its efforts on obtaining a pardon for Marc Rich instead.
Arafat and Mubarak Meet in Cairo
By Dale Gavlak (VOA-Cairo)
Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has met in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to discuss the Middle East visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell and to prepare for the Arab summit in Jordan at the end of March.
Arafat stopped in Cairo on the second leg of a diplomatic tour to meet with Arab leaders for talks about a united position on Israel for the coming Arab summit. He visited King Abdullah in Jordan recently and will travel on to Libya for talks with Colonel Muammar Qadhafi.
A top Palestinian negotiator and advisor, Saeb Erekat, said the two leaders discussed the Israeli government that is expected to be formed by Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon, and also U.S. policy in the Middle East under President Bush.
Erekat reaffirmed that Arabs remain committed to peace as their strategic choice. But he expressed pessimism regarding American efforts to restart peace talks. He said Powell did not comment on how to end Israeli occupation of Arab land and that this signaled that Washington has not changed its stance. The Palestinians have accused the previous Clinton administration of failing to handle the Palestinian-Israeli crisis in a balanced manner.
Erekat added that it may also take the new Bush administration months to prepare its Middle East position. He said that this would leave a vacuum and encourage violence to escalate even further.
The Palestinian negotiator said that President Mubarak repeated his warning during his talks with Arafat that Middle East peace could not come at any price. Mubarak said that peace must be based on United Nations resolutions calling for Israel to withdraw from Arab lands it occupied in the 1967 war and a solution of the problem of Palestinian refugees.
Arab leaders say they fear Sharon's hawkish government could further ignite a spiral of violence in the region. They also see Sharon as willing to turn his back on the hallmark principle of land-for-peace embodied in Middle East peace process.
Egypt has urged Israel to end what it calls its "siege" of the West Bank and Gaza and to put an end to excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians. It called both moves critical to halting violence and resuming peace efforts halted since Sharon's election last month.
Sharon Urges Jewish Immigration to Israel
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon, addressing Jewish leaders from 20 nations who are visiting Israel as part of the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors, has repeated his trademark themes: aliyah to Israel, Zionist education around the world and settling of Jews in the underpopulated parts of the Negev.
Sharon told his visitors that hopefully, 1 million Jews will make aliyah by 2011, and that by 2020, most of the world's 13 million Jews will be living in Israel.
Sharon said he would encourage the new immigrants to settle in the Negev, the Galilee and "Greater Jerusalem," however, Sharon declined to further define the last area, which is a source of conflict with the Palestinians. In some regions of Israel, Sharon said, Jews are significantly outnumbered by Arabs.
Barking Up the Right Tree
Arutz-7 News
People who suffer from lower back pain may find relief with a natural remedy: willow bark extract. Already widely used in Europe for lower back pain, the extract was studied by Israeli and German researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. They confirmed that willow bark extract is effective for treating lower back pain.
The findings, published in The American Journal of Medicine (July 2000), are startling: 39 percent of the patients who took a high dose of extract became pain free, while another 21 percent who took a lower dose also became pain free. The active ingredient in the willow bark extract is salicin, a forerunner of aspirin, but other ingredients in the extract also may play a role in relieving lower back pain.
"What we've shown is that the willow bark extract is effective and
safe compared to a placebo," explains Dr. Elon Eisenberg, the
Technion researcher who co-authored the study. "Some people may be
able to tolerate NSAIDs, but these are expensive, not readily
available and can cause side effects."
NSAIDs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories often prescribed for
lower back pain, can cause bleeding and perforation of the
gastro-intestinal tract. The study also notes that 76,000 people
annually in the U.S. are hospitalized from the effects of these
drugs.
"The low doses of salicin [the natural, aspirin-like ingredient in willow bark extract] are safe for the gastro-intestinal tract. That's the advantage of this extract," Eisenberg said. "The equivalent dose of salicin given in the form of aspirin has no pain-killing properties whatsoever." He added that people who are allergic to aspirin, are pregnant or are lactating shouldn't take the extract without consulting a doctor.
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