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>JN Jan. 22, 2002, Vol. 10, No. 14
Revoke Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize
By IsraelNationalNews.com
A movement continues to gather a minimum of one million signatures to forward to the Nobel Prize Committee, demanding that the Nobel Prize for Peace be revoked from Palestinian Authority leader Yasir Arafat.
Arafat received the prize in 1993. As of Monday at noon, there were about 120,000 signatures.
Israel Occupies West Bank Town of Tulkarm
By Meredith Buel (VOA-Jerusalem)
Israeli military officials said troops will stay in the Palestinian town of Tulkarm for as long as it takes to dismantle what they call the terrorist infrastructure.
Israeli tanks rolled into the West Bank town before dawn Monday. Soldiers imposed a curfew and immediately began searching houses for suspected terrorists, arresting about 20 people.
Local officials used mosque loudspeakers to urge Palestinians to defy the curfew and resist the Israeli army. Israeli gunfire killed two Palestinians and wounded at least 24 in scattered resistance.
Israel said Palestinian militants launched anti-Israeli attacks from Tulkarm, including the extremist, who gunned down six Israelis last week at a bat mitzvah celebration in Hadera. The army said it is in Tulkarm to do the job Israel claims Yasir Arafat is not doing, arresting terrorists.
Arafat Monday called the Tulkarm takeover extremely dangerous and said Israel has crossed all red lines. He also said he will keep fighting for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, even if it costs him his life.
Mideast Religious Leaders Condemn Killing of Innocents
By VOA News
A gathering of religious leaders in the Middle East has issued a joint declaration condemning the killing of innocents. Meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, the Muslim, Jewish and Christian clerics called for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pledged to work together for a just and lasting peace.
The unusual gathering of Palestinian and Israeli clerics urged political leaders to implement recommendations of the Mitchell Report and the Tenet plan to stop the bloodshed and resume peace negotiations. The clerics envisage setting up a permanent committee of religious leaders to pursue implementation of their declaration.
The gathering was hosted by the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, and Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi - grand sheikh of al-Azhar in Cairo, the highest Sunni Muslim religious authority.
Palestinian participants included Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi and the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabah, who is the senior Roman Catholic churchman in the Middle East. The Israeli delegation included Sephardic Chief Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron and Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior, also a rabbi.
What Killed King Herod?
By IsraeliWireNews.com
New evidence suggests that Herod the Great (or King Herod as he is called in the Bible's New Testament) died of chronic kidney disease. Historians remember him as a brutal, unpredictable, paranoid and cruel leader. During his 36-year bloody reign as king of ancient Judea, Herod the Great ordered the executions of one wife and three sons, and, in a vain attempt to destroy the infant Jesus, directed the infamous Slaughter of the Innocents.
It's been more than 2,000 years since his death in 4 BCE, yet clinicians and scholars will unravel the mystery of what killed 69 year-old Herod the Great during this year's historical Clinical Pathologic Conference (CPC) sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Maryland Health Care System and the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
"Herod the Great expired from chronic kidney disease probably complicated by Fournier's gangrene," according to the medical investigative work of Jan Hirschmann, M.D., staff physician at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and professor of medicine at the University of Washington's School of Medicine.
"The texts that we depend on for a close description of Herod's last days list several major features of the disease that caused his death--among them, intense itching, painful intestinal problems, breathlessness, convulsions in every limb, and gangrene of the genitalia."
While past notions speculated that Herod the Great died from complications of gonorrhea, Hirschmann decided to dig deeper and focus on a single symptom of his final illness. He first determined what diseases could possibly cause it, then explored whether any of those diseases could explain the other symptoms.
"When I first looked at the general diseases that cause itching, it became clear that most of them couldn't explain a majority of the features of Herod's illness. At first, I considered Hodgkin's disease and some diseases of the liver."
Of the diseases that Hirschmann explored, the disorder that accounted for nearly all the features of Herod's illness was chronic kidney disease. Still, one feature of Herod's illness-- gangrene of the genitalia-- was not explained by that diagnosis.
"I finally concluded that the most likely explanation was that his chronic kidney disease was complicated by an unusual infection of the male genitalia called Fournier's gangrene."
