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Subject: [bprlist] CFI CRISIS UPDATE 17/06/01
From: Stafford's Mail
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 22:08:22 +0100
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Rom 10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God
for Israel is that they may be saved. NKJV
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1, CFI CRISIS UPDATE 17th June 2001
2. SHABBAT SHALOM WEEKLY - Rabbi Kalman Packouz
The Rabbi comments on Ant-Semitism
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is continuing a Mideast peace mission,
meeting today with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Yesterday, Annan met
separately with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon. Annan is trying to cement the fragile US-brokered
cease-fire that went into effect last week. "I think we have an
opportunity, but a brief one, and we should seize the moment," Annan
told a joint news conference with Arafat. "So I appeal to everyone to
work for peace, for the sake of the people, for the sake of the region
and for the sake of the two parties involved." Both Sharon and Arafat
told Annan they're committed to the cease-fire, but each accused the
other of violations. "Unfortunately the situation is very difficult
and nothing has changed on the ground," Arafat said, accusing Israel
of failing to ease its tight blockade of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza
Strip. "It's impossible to move on any of the roads," Arafat said.
Annan said the cease-fire must be followed by peace talks, but Sharon
said first, there must be six weeks of total quiet. "Any advance in
the [political] process is conditional first and foremost on the total
cessation of terror, violence and incitement," Sharon said.
While violence has diminished, it hasn't ceased by any means. Today, a
Palestinian detonated a donkey cart laden with explosives near an
Israeli patrol in Gaza. The soldiers shot the bomber in the leg when
he jumped from the cart seconds before it exploded, about 40 yards
(meters) from an Israeli armored personnel carrier. An army spokesman
there were no Israeli casualties but the Palestinian was wounded and
taken to a hospital in Israel. The donkey died in the blast, near the
Palestinian village of Dahaniya in southern Gaza. There was also heavy
overnight fighting near the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. The army said
at least 20 grenades were thrown at soldiers. Elsewhere in Gaza, six
Palestinians were injured in a stone-throwing demonstration near the
Khan Younis refugee camp. Near Palestinian-ruled Nablus in Samaria, a
bomb exploded near an Israeli army jeep, which also came under
Palestinian fire. One soldier suffered a bullet wound in the hand.
The Rafah fighting also led to an unusual incident, in which a
12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Palestinian gunmen.
Witnesses said the killing occurred when residents of the area tried
to stop Palestinians who were shooting at an Israeli army base from a
place adjacent to their homes. The gunmen opened fire at Palestinian
residents, killing the boy and wounding four other people. The
incident seems to indicate that many Palestinians are tired of the
fighting and being human shields for Palestinian gunmen, and would
like the cease-fire to stick and life to return to normal-at least for
a while. Palestinian police are said to be looking for the gunmen
because they violated Arafat's cease-fire order.
The weekly cabinet meeting was stormy today, with the first signs of
strain between the right-wing Likud party and dovish Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres of Labor. What sparked the angry verbal exchanges was a
request by Arafat to meet Peres and Annan in Palestinian-ruled
Ramallah. Sharon discerned that Arafat was trying to hold political
discussions with Peres, the weak link in the government, without fully
ending the violence. So Sharon vetoed the meeting, infuriating Peres.
"I don't take orders from you," Peres told Sharon, according to Israel
Radio. That prompted an angry response from several right-wing
ministers, who believe Peres has pulled the government too far to the
left. The exchange showed just how fragile the national unity
government is. It held together well when there was no sign of an end
to the fighting. But with a cease-fire now in place, Peres is anxious
to revive the brain-dead Oslo process he created, while the Likud
wants an extended period of quiet first. The unified stand of the
government weakened Arafat, and he alone will gain if the government
starts to unravel.
The Maccabiah Games or "Jewish Olympics" will go on next month despite
calls for a one-year postponement prompted by fears of Palestinian
terrorism. "It was finally decided the 16th Maccabiah will take place,
following responses we received from overseas and the decision by
Maccabi in the USA to take part," said Uzi Zweber, chairman of the
Maccabiah Games Organizing Committee. The Israeli government had
pleaded with the heads of Maccabiah delegations from all over the
world not to give "a victory to terrorism" by postponing the games.
The games bring Jewish athletes to compete in Israel every four years.
Although not a top world-class athletic event, they are a source of
Jewish pride and unity. Approximately 2,000 athletes are set to take
part-half the number originally expected. The duration of the games
might be cut for up to three days because of the smaller number of
participants. They were originally set for July 16-26.
This crisis update is a service of CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL. It is
normally written by David Dolan, who is currently on a speaking tour
abroad. In his absence, it is being provided courtesy of israel today
magazine. For more information about this monthly news magazine,
visit their web site at: www.israeltoday.co.il For a free copy, call
toll-free in North America, 1-888-639-8460.
David Dolan's latest book, ISRAEL IN CRISIS: WHAT LIES AHEAD? along
with his end time novel and his first book, an acclaimed history of
Israel, may be ordered by phoning 888-890-6938 in North America, or by
e mail at: resources@yourisraelconnection.org, or by visiting his web
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SHABBAT SHALOM WEEKLY - Rabbi Kalman Packouz
ANTI-SEMITISM
It has been prophesied in the Torah that Jews will be
persecuted: "Among those nations you shall find no respite, no rest
for your foot. There God will make you cowardly, destroying your
outlook and making life hopeless. You will live in constant
suspense. Day and night, you will be terrified, never sure of your
existence. In the morning you will say, 'If only it were night,' and in
the evening you will say, 'If only it were morning!' Such will be the
dread that your heart will feel and the sights that your eyes will see"
(Deut. 28:65-67).
No other form of racial hatred comes close to anti-Semitism
in its virulence, its intensity and its irrationality.
As Professor Michael Curtis of Rutgers University put it:
"The uniqueness of anti-Semitism lies in the fact that no other
people in the world have ever been charged simultaneously with
alienation from society and with cosmopolitanism, with being
capitalistic exploiters and also revolutionary communist advocators.
The Jews were accused of having an imperious mentality, at the
same time they're a people of the book. They're accused of being
militant aggressors, at the same time as being cowardly pacifists.
With being a chosen people, and also having an inferior human
nature. With both arrogance and timidity. With both extreme
individualism and community adherence. With being guilty of the
crucifixion of Jesus and at the same time held to account for the
invention of Christianity." (Colloquium on anti-Semitism, 1987)
If we look at the history of anti-Semitism, we see one
unceasing chain of slaughter, pogroms, pillaging, expulsion, etc.
There are horrendous levels of violence that lead up to the worst
thing that can be done to a hated people: Genocide. Most nations
in history have not been subjected to even one genocide. But in
almost every generation there's an attempted Jewish genocide
somewhere in the world on a macrocosmic or microcosmic scale.
Next week we will continue with the Wonders of Jewish
History -- that we will be a Light Unto the Nations, that the land of
Israel will be barren except when the Jewish people are there and
that we will return to the land of Israel.
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Subject: [bprlist] Official Fatah website: Faisal al Husseini died in reaction to campaign of hateful comments by some Kuwaitis
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:08:19 -0400
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Official Fatah website: Faisal al Husseini died in reaction to campaign of
hateful comments by some Kuwaitis
Apparently Absent but in Reality Present
http://www.fateh.net/e_editor/01/310501.htm
While the Israeli aggression against our people is intensifying under
Sharon's deceptive cease-fire, Israel started a misinformation campaign to
influence the public opinion in Israel, and worldwide against the PNA and
President Arafat for their refusal to accept the Israeli dictates. Israel
wants President Arafat to stop the Intifada and arrest some of the
Opposition activists. His refusal to do so made him the subject of rude
threats by some Israeli right wing extremists like Liberman and Ze'evi who
called for destroying the PNA infrastructure.
Palestinian internal unity helps a great deal in facing up to such
situations. The civil society, the National and Islamic forces, and the PNA
remain united to prserve the achievements of the Intifada. To secure the
strategic depth of the Intifada, it was necessary to activate the roles of the
Arab and Muslim worlds. In addition to obtaining material support, such
activation has been necessary to exert more pressure on the United States in
order to lessen its bias for Israel and restore its role as a peace broker.
The late Faisal al Husseini, a member of the Central Committee of Fateh and
the
PLO's Executive Committee who was in charge of Jerusalem's affairs, was
attending a conference in Kuwait to recruit additional Arab support. The
conference was against normalizing relations with Israel to further isolate
Sharon's government at both the Arab and Islamic levels.
In Kuwait, however, Husseini found himself amid a campaign of hateful
comments by some Kuwaitis whose hearts are still full of rancor against the
Palestinian people. He did his utmost to explain to them the Palestinian
position concerning the 1990 Gulf crisis. In his view, the PLO supported an
Arab
solution for the crisis to avoid the US hegemony on the future of our nation.
Calling for an Arab solution and rejecting the US aggression against Iraq
formed
the essence of the Palestinian position that some Kuwaitis failed to
understand.
Husseini could not endure the resentment he encountered or the
disheartening
accusations that were leveled against his people and its leadership. He
passed
away in Kuwait suffering from the injuries he received to his reputation as a
man who struggled against prejudice everywhere. He died there to have an
eternal
presence in the city he devoted his life to, Jerusalem. We hope that his death
will enhance unity in the Arab and Muslim worlds and end all feelings of
hostility and vengeance to prepare the way for restoring the blessed city of
Jerusalem.
Amid all the perplexing contradictions we have been experiencing as pledges
are
made but usually not fulfilled, and while Zionists control the fate of the new
American order, Faisal passed away. But his spirit will continue to hover in
the
skies of Palestine spreading the revolutionary thinking of Fateh, the
movement
that will continue to embrace the PNA as the embryo of the state of
Palestine.
It will also shoulder the responsibility of the Intifada and enhance the
national unity it has manifested in an unprecedented manner.
When we cite al Intifada, we remember Jerusalem, al -Aqsa, and the Church
of the
Holy Sepulcher. When we cite Jerusalem, we remember Faisal whose spirit
embodies
the harmony that prevails among all the parties in there.
Faisal was with us but suddenly he departed. Like all martyrs, he was
chosen by
the will of God to travel through the gates of Jerusalem to ascend into heaven.
His death formed the beginning of a struggle path that opened the city to all of
its admirers. In the shadow of his appeased self, his spirit fluttered over the
walls, mosques, and churches of Jerusalem. And the Orient House lingered
around
the eternal sun urging it not to fade away. Though in the sheath, his sword
used
to frighten the enemy. As long as Jerusalem is our hope, he will be the only
reality there.
He found himself besieged by death away from the locality he loved in a
place where Arab generosity and Muslim chivalry are not popular. As a
knight, his legs were taller than the loftiness of the horse he dismounted. The
Intifada with its clamor was a crown he proudly put on his head to spread it in
Jerusalem, the city he carried around to ensure that the world will not throw it
into oblivion or see it through Zionist eyes.
Our movement Fateh, the PLO and the PNA have lost a great person at a
very
crucial time. Following is an announcement made by Fateh's Central
Committee:
The Central Committee of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement
announces to our people and cadre here and in the Diaspora, to our Arab and
Muslim nation, to friends of the Palestinian cause, and to defenders of liberty
all over the world, announces the death of Faisal al Husseini, Abu el Abed.
He
was a member of the Central Committee of Fateh, a member of the PLO's
Executive
Committee in charge of Jerusalem's affairs, head of the Orient House, and
director of the Arab Studies Society. The man devoted his life defending the
Arab character of Jerusalem and its holy sites as the capital of the
independent
state of Palestine.
As a knight who gave Palestine a great deal throughout his life, Abu el Abed
had
the image of a fighter who bravely faced the policies of the occupation. He led
his people in defending their land against the attacks of Israeli soldiers and
settlers. He also defended the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.
These include the right of return, the right to self-determination, and the
right to establish our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
He was a great leader who had the good qualities of his people, a national
education, and a creative leadership that made him able to convey the
justice of our cause to the whole world. He defended the Palestinian cause
in Arab and international meetings and forums he attended. He helped to
increase the number of friends and supporters of our cause.
In a daily practice, he led the people in an effort to stop the Israeli
aggression, to protect al Aqsa, the Church of Holy Sepulchre, and all holy
sites, and to defend national rights. On more than one occasion, his life
was endangered by Israeli soldiers and settlers without ever giving in. He
continued to carry out his duties until the last moment in his life.
Abu el Abed was an outstanding Palestinan and Arab character, the son of
the
late Abdul Qader al Husseini who led the Holy Jihad forces in th+e 1948 war
and
died in al Qastal battle. Abu el Abed belonged to a family that devoted its life
to defending Palestine and Jerusalem.
The departure of such a great leader at this crucial time represents a great
loss to the Palestinian people, and, therefore, we need to increase our efforts
to ensure the continuation of the Intifada.
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement mourns the death of Abu el
Abed who
died on Thursday, May 31, 2001. We pledge the martyr to achieve the goals
he
devoted his life to.
The movement of Fateh pledges our people and our Arab and Muslim nation
to
continue the Intifada until we attain our freedom and independence.
Fame and eternity to our martyr and to all martyrs of Palestine and the Arab
and
Muslim nation.
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement "Fateh"
The Central Committee
May 31,2001
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Subject: [bprlist] Interview: PM Sharon's Foreign press adviser: Sharon letter to Tenet
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:09:21 -0400
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Interview: PM Sharon's Foreign press adviser: Sharon letter to Tenet won't
be released, Israel hasn't seen Arafat's letter
Aaron Lerner Date: 17 June 2001
IMRA interviewed Ra'anan Gissin, Foreign press adviser to Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon, in English, on 17 June 2001:
IMRA: Are you going to be releasing a copy of the letter from Sharon to
Tenet accepting the Tenet plan?
Gissin: No, We are not going to release it. Tenet asked us not to release
any
copies of anything. That was very clear. And we are abiding by the request
of
the United States. We are not releasing any documents pertaining to the
specifics of this except to say that we have accepted it.
IMRA: Has Israel been given a copy of the letter from Arafat to Tenet?
Gissin: No. That is a letter from each side to a third party. It has been
revealed. It has been leaked to the press. Officially we have not received it.
We are abiding by the request of George Tenet and of the American
Administration
that we will not issue nor reveal the specifics of what the exchange was.
We accepted it as it is. We will abide by the letter of the Tenet proposal and
we hope that the other side will reciprocate.
IMRA: Are the Israeli cabinet members or members of the security cabinet
going to be provided copies of the text of Sharon's letter?
Gissin: Whoever needs to be in on the details of what was there knows the
details. We were asked not to release it.
IMRA: So members of the security cabinet have a copy of the letter?
Gissin: They do not have a copy. They were briefed on the letter but they
do not have a copy in their hands. The request was that it not be leaked
except to those who are involved directly in it.
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Subject: [bprlist] IDF Spokesperson: Major attacks since Tenet cease fire
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:10:01 -0400
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IDF SPOKESPERSON: MAJOR ATTACKS SINCE THE TENET CEASE
FIRE AGREEMENT TOOK
EFFECT ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 13, AT 15:00 (UPDATED TO SUNDAY
JUNE 17, 14:00)
Wednesday, 13/6:
+ 16:10 -- Fire towards an IDF force near Efrat. IDF soldiers returned fire
+ 19:30 - 1 mortar shell fired at IDF outpost east of Atzmona, an additional
mortar shell fell in PA controlled area
+22:50 - Anti-tank grenade thrown at IDF post near Gadid. No return fire
+ 00:15 - Fire towards an IDF post near Neve Dekalim. No return fire
+ Overnight: an anti-tank grenade fired at IDF outpost near Ganei Tal; fire at
Netzarim and at an IDF outpost near Neve Dekalim.
Thursday, 14/6:
+ 5:50- 2 mortar shells fired at Rafah Yam area.
+ 10:00 - Lt. Col. Yehuda Edri shot to death at close range by Palestinian,
another IDF soldier wounded, on Tunnels Road, south of Jerusalem
+ 14:00 - Fire towards Neve Dekalim industrial area. No return fire
+ 18:30 - 5 mortar shells fired at Morag.
+ 22:20 - 12 molotov cocktails thrown at an IDF force in Shalalot in Hebron.
No return fire
+ 22:45 - Three Israeli civilians injured, two of them moderately to
seriously, when Palestinian gunmen opened fire at their car traveling near
the settlement of Halamish, north of Ramallah.
+ 23:00 - Fire was opened twice towards an IDF post near Ganei Tal. No
return fire
Friday, 15/6:
+ 2:00 - 4 grenades at an IDF force along Israeli/Egyptian border
+ 2:40- Fire was opened towards a Border Police patrol vehicle south of Tul
Karem.
+ 13:00 - 8 molotov cocktails towards an IDF force in Hebron's Jewish
community.
+ 21:35 - Fire towards an IDF force near Tul Karem. IDF soldiers did not
return fire.
+ 23:10-1 mortar shell fired at Southern DCO near Neve Dekalim.
+ Throughout the day: Fire towards several IDF posts in the Gaza Strip.
Saturday, 16/6:
+ 3:25- 1 mortar shell fired at and IDF post along Israeli/Egyptian border.
No return fire.
+ 5:10- An explosive device was activated at an IDF vehicle near the
community of Itamar
+ 21:00 - Fire towards IDF post along Israeli-Egyptian border. No return
fire
+ 22:40 - Fire towards Ayosh Junction. No return fire
+ 22:45- Repeated Palestinian fire at an IDF post along the Israeli-Egyptian
border
+ 23:25- Palestinian fire towards an IDF post near Ganei Tal, in Gush Katif
in the Gaza Strip.
+Overnight: Forty seven (47) grenades and heavy fire towards IDF post along
Israeli/Egyptian border
Sunday 17/6:
+8:20 - A Palestinian bomber brings donkey and cart laden with explosives to
IDF outpost near Rafah, and explodes the cart. The bomber is in moderate
condition, no IDF injuries.
+ 11:30 - Two IDF soldiers were lightly wounded when an explosive device
was activated and shots were fired at an IDF vehicle traveling on the road
to Mount Eibal, near Nablus.
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:13:15 -0400
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Ha'aretz: Rajoub: PA will not allow armed militias - but "militant
activists" won't be disarmed or arrested
By Amos Harel, Ha'aretz Correspondent Ha'aretz 17 June 2001
[IMRA - this is NOT a parody. The original headline was "Rajoub: PA will not
allow armed militias"]
Head of the Palestinian preventive security apparatus in the West Bank,
Jibril Rajoub, said Sunday that the Palestinian Authority would not allow
illegal armed militias in the West Bank. However, he said that the PA would
not
arrest militant activists and would not collect weapons that are in the hands of
militants.
Rajoub warned that the situation in the area could decline further if Israel did
not carry out its part of the Tenet report. He called Israel's actions
"cosmetic" and said that if Israel wanted to return normalization to the area,
it had to immediately assimilate its part of the Tenet report and resume
permanent peace negotiations in order to end the Israeli occupation.
Rajoub said that the security meeting scheduled for Sunday had been
postponed for "technical reasons," as the American representative had been
unable to make it to the meeting.
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:13:51 -0400
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IDF Spokesperson Press Release:EASING OF RESTRICTIONS FOR
PALESTINIANS IN
THE WEST BANK AND THE GAZA STRIP
(Communicated by the IDF Spokesman's Office)
17 June 2001
Following the declaration on the implementation of the understandings agreed
upon in the Tenet Document, the IDF has taken the following steps to ease
restrictions for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip:
Troop Redeployments:
Tanks were pulled back in the vicinity of Netzarim Junction, north of the
Kissufim crossing, in the vicinity of Gush Katif Junction, in the vicinity
of Surda, near Herodian, near the IDF Shdema base, near the community of
Beit Hagai and in Hebron.
Roads:
-- IDF roadblocks north of Nablus, near the villages of Beit Furik and
Surda, near the community of Itamar and two in the Jordan Valley have been
opened for Palestinian traffic
-- IDF roadblocks were lifted north of Nablus, at two points in the Jordan
Valley and at several places throughout the Gaza Strip.
-- The eastern road of Bethlehem and a road in Hebron have been opened for
traffic.
-- The Allenby and Rafah international crossing points have been opened for
civilian and commercial traffic. -- The Adam Bridge has been opened for the
transportation of goods. Commercial traffic: -- All goods, including building
materials and agricultural products, are imported and exported through the
Karni
crossing. -- The importation of goods that are offloaded from Israeli vehicles
to Palestinian vehicles into the West Bank takes place at special crossing
points. -- Goods are offloaded from Palestinian vehicles in the West Bank to
Israeli vehicles in accordance to the proper directives, and are allowed in
specific cases. -- Gas and fuels are transported to the Palestinian Authority.
-- All goods from harbors are allowed into the Palestinian authority. -- The
authorized fishing zone along the Gaza Strip is extended from three miles to
six
miles from the coast. Civilian traffic: -- VIP movement to Israel and between
the West Bank and Gaza is permitted subject to authorization. The IDF will
continue to implement its part of the understandings and will ease restrictions
wherever the peace is maintained. The IDF Spokesperson emphasizes that
the IDF
will do whatever is necessary to end the violence and restore the peace in
places where the shooting incidents and agreement violations continue.
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:16:06 -0400
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Saturday June 16, 03:55 PM
Cancer cure is found
EARLY tests of a revolutionary drug and radiation cancer treatment invented
by
British scientists have proved dramatically successful, it was revealed
yesterday. Laboratory mice genetically engineered to grow human tumours
were
completely cured in 85 per cent of cases.
More than nine months after the treatment was stopped there was no
evidence of
any residual cancer in the animals.
One half of the treatment consists of a drug called Combretastatin - based
on a tree-bark extract used by Zulu warriors as a charm to ward off their
enemies - which targets newly-forming blood vessels that nourish tumours.
The other comprises antibodies tagged with a radioactive "warhead" which
they ferry into cancer cells.
The therapy was pioneered by Cancer Research Campaign scientists at the
Royal Free Hospital in London and the Gray Laboratory Cancer Research
Trust at
Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex.
Human clinical trials are expected to begin next year. If successful they
could lead to the treatment being available in five years.
Professor Richard Begent, head of oncology at the Royal Free, said:
"Combretastatin has been given to patients on its own before but the
response has not been very good. In most cases the cancer continues to
grow. But
when you put the two treatments together it's then possible in these animals
to
cure the cancer completely with just a single treatment.
"It is rather exciting. We're now working towards carrying out some clinical
trials with the Cancer Research Campaign."
Tumours cannot live without blood and generate their own special network of
blood vessels to provide an adequate supply. Combretastatin specifically
targets
and cuts off the cancer blood network by binding on to the dividing cells
creating the new capillaries.
Researchers found a ring of cells around the central tumour do not rely on
the cancer blood supply system - they use normal blood vessels instead -
and are
thus free to keep growing.
The antibodies tackle these by zapping them with radioactive material.
The experiments at the Royal Free Hospital were led by Dr Barbara Pedley,
head of tumour biology at the Cancer Research Campaign's targeting and
imaging group.
Dr Pedley said: "We are excited by these results. These are human tumours
grown in mice.
"Although we have been mainly looking at colorectal cancer, it works on a
very wide range of cancers - all the solid tumours, which includes breast
cancer."
The key to the therapy is that it ensures that no residual cancer is left.
Combretastatin attacks the tumour from the inside out by cutting off its
blood supply. The radioactive antibodies work from the outside in.
Excitement about Combretastatin began four years ago when Cancer
Research
Campaign scientists found it could kill up to 95 per cent of cells in solid
tumours in the laboratory. However, in patients, the small number of cancer
cells left behind allowed the disease to return.
Dr Lesley Walker, director of cancer information at the Cancer Research
Campaign, said: "This good news confirms what we have been saying all
along - that treatments that directly target cancers and spare normal tissue
will be the cancer therapies of the future.
"By combining radioimmunotherapy with Combretastatin, doctors could in the
future be able to launch a two-pronged attack on the cancer cells,
effectively delivering a `double-blow' and preventing tumours from
regrowing.
"As well as improving the effectiveness of treatment, it should greatly
reduce side-effects for the patient."
Dr Walker said patient trials involving Combretastatin were due to start
early next year and a number of trials were expected to use a combination of
the
drug in conjunction with other chemotherapy agents and/or radiotherapy.
About 200 patients with a variety of different cancers would be recruited.
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:26:52 -0400
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History Channel
Hitler's Holocaust :
A comprehensive look at the origins
of the Holocaust from a German
perspective and the motives and
methods behind the madness.
Eyewitness testimony, newly
discovered archival footage and
historical reenactments shed light on
the genesis of the Holocaust, the
mentality of the perpetrators and who
knew what.
•Airs Monday-Thursday, June 18-21
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Sharon: UN Must Act Against Hizbullah in Lebanon
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan met late last night with Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon in his Jerusalem residence to hear Israel's views on the
implementation of the cease-fire with the Palestinians and the situation on
the Lebanese border.
The meeting began a few hours after Annan met with Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat in Ramallah.
In a statement released at 2 a.m. this morning, the Prime Minister's Office
said Sharon asked Annan what steps he was taking to bring about a
deployment of Lebanese Army troops along the border with Israel, in
accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 425, which has so far not
been implemented.
Sharon was quoted as demanding the UN take steps to counter recent
Iranian activities to establish independent Katyusha units in Lebanon under
full Iranian control, which Israel regards as a significant threat beyond
ongoing massive Iranian aid to Hizbullah.
The prime minister emphasized that, without the full support of Syria, the
Iranians could not do this. Jerusalem Post
Bush, Putin Vow New Bonds in Talks
Face to face for the first time, President Bush and Russian President
Vladimir Putin pledged Saturday to deepen their nations' bonds and to
explore the possibility of compromise on U.S. missile defense plans that
Moscow has bitterly opposed.
Despite mixed signals from his Russian counterpart, Bush said, ``We have a
great moment during our tenures to cast aside the suspicions and doubts
that used to plague our nations.''
Putin showed a surprising ``receptivity'' to missile defense, particularly the
need to conduct research that could violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile
treaty, Bush said.
"Nothing was rejected out of hand,'' Bush told The Associated Press as he
closed his first overseas trip and prepared to return to Washington Saturday
night.
Putin himself hinted at the possibility of a ``very constructive development'' on
the ABM issue. ``I think we can work out a common approach,'' he said.
Still, he warned Bush that any effort to go it alone can only make U.S.-
Russian relations ``more complicated.'' Putin coldly declined to restate
Russia's opposition: ``The official position of the Russian government is
known.'' AP
In 1952, the 3rd World War Was Inevitable
British intelligence warned in 1951 that the Americans were planning to wage
a "preventative" atomic war on the Russians the following year with or without
the support of their NATO allies. The director of naval intelligence said the
United States military was convinced that "all-out war against the Soviet
Union was not only inevitable but imminent". theage
Europe Puts Up Anti-Riot Barricades
European leaders are to introduce Draconian measures to deal with the
growing threat of violence from anti-capitalist protesters. They are bringing
forward plans to stage all European summits in Brussels behind tough new
security barriers.
And in an extraordinary response to the massive disturbances in
Gothenburg, Sweden, the Italian government is planning to seal off the major
city of Genoa for next month's G8 world economic summit, closing airlinks,
railways and roads.
The plan follows the increasingly violent protests which have marred
gatherings of international leaders since Seattle, and which left three people
with gunshot wounds after riots in Gothenburg on Friday night.
Senior police revealed last night that an undisclosed number of Britons had
been arrested over the riots, which caused millions of pounds worth of
damage. Police and protesters fought pitched battles on the city's streets.
The disclosure that Britons were involved caused acute embarrassment to
Tony Blair, who blamed the trouble on a 'travelling circus' of anarchists intent
on violence. Observer
EU Summit Over
Click Here (http://sg.news.yahoo.com/010616/1/zdl8.html) for the main
points agreed by EU leaders at a two-day summit that ended Saturday in
this southwestern coastal city ...
Presbyterian Leaders Vote To Overturn Ban On Homosexual Ministers
Leaders of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have voted overwhelmingly to
overturn a ban on ordaining homosexuals as ministers of the church.
The 317-208 vote, taken Friday at the church's annual general assembly in
Louisville, Kentucky, came after more than two hours of debate, according to
Jerry Van Marter, who recounted the event on the church's Web site,
www.pcusa.org.
The measure will now be sent to the church's regional governing bodies, or
presbyteries, for consideration and must be passed by a majority of them
over the next year before it can take effect. If the proposal is ratified,
individual churches would determine whether or not to allow gay and lesbian
clergy. CNN
Some Quakes From Last 2 Days: (usgs)
4.2 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
4.9 MICHOACAN, MEXICO
5.7 TONGA ISLANDS
4.7 FIJI ISLANDS REGION
4.4 GULF OF CALIFORNIA
5.7 EASTERN GULF OF ADEN
5.0 NEAR COAST OF NORTHERN CHILE
5.1 SW OF SUMATERA, INDONESIA
3.7 OFF COAST OF OREGON
4.9 MARIANA ISLANDS
4.7 ANDREANOF ISL, ALEUTIAN IS.
5.9 MARIANA ISLANDS
Second Outbreak of Swine Fever Suspected in Spain
Spain announced on Saturday a second case of suspected swine fever in the
northeastern province of Lerida, two days after an outbreak in the same area
which prompted a decision to slaughter 2,000 animals. Farmers within six
miles of the farm in Catalonia would also be on alert for the contagious fever,
while an area of around two miles around the farm would be sealed off.
Reuters
Flesh-Eating Bug Kills 2
Two people have been killed by a flesh eating disease in one of Northern
Ireland's main hospitals. It has been confirmed that a woman died from
necrotizing fasciitis at Craigavon Area Hospital in County Armagh two weeks
ago.
The woman from Portadown in County Armagh died just 10 hours after being
admitted to hospital. She had been treated with antibiotics and had
undergone surgery. Her death followed the death of a man at the hospital
from the same disease six months ago. He was also said to be young and
healthy before becoming infected.
Deputy chief executive and chief medical director of the hospital Dr Liam
McCaughey said the disease did not normally pose a risk to anyone who
came in contact with a patient who had contracted it. BBC
4 Canisters Found in Colorado May Contain Sarin
Four canisters the size of grapefruits were discovered Friday at the Rocky
Mountain Arsenal, where six devices containing the deadly sarin nerve gas
were found last fall.
Experts found the four canisters in the same scrap pile where the six sarin
containers were found. Those bomblets were destroyed in January and
February by remote control in an explosion-proof chamber.
Officials do not know if the newly found canisters are M-139 bomblets, like
the ones found earlier, said Ruth Mecham, a spokeswoman for the arsenal.
Each M-139 contains 1.3 pounds of sarin and when detonated, can kill
people 900 feet away. The canisters were designed to be delivered in a
cluster bomb.
Sarin paralyzes the lungs and other vital organs, and one drop can kill an
adult in an hour. The nerve gas was used in a Tokyo subway attack in 1995
that killed 12 people, and it is being investigated as a possible cause of
widespread illness among Gulf War veterans.
The Army manufactured sarin at the arsenal from 1953 to 1957 and Shell
later made pesticides at the site. Officials don't know how the bomblets
ended up in the debris.
Shell and state and federal agencies are cleaning up the 27-square-mile
arsenal northeast of Denver to turn it into a wildlife refuge. Nando Times
Astronomers, Tourists Flock to Zambia for Eclipse
Astronomers and tourists are flocking to Zambia for the first solar eclipse of
the millennium and police are tightening security ahead of the June 21
spectacle, officials said on Friday. Zambia expects to play host to up to
20,000 eclipse tourists and astronomers, and hopes they will spend up to
$15 million, boosting the economy and the flagging tourism industry, said
Zambia National Tourist Board head Agnes Seenka. Reuters
Lopevi Volcano Erupts & Contaminates
On 8 June, the Lopevi volcano began erupting and produced an ash cloud
that rose ~ 6 km a.s.l. More than 0.9 m of ash settled on the uninhabited
island of Lopevi and several inches of ash fell on the island of Paama.
Paama's water supply was contaminated and crops were severaly damaged
by the ash and gas. The inhabitants of Paama suffered from respiratory
problems as a result of breathing the ash and gas. more
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:34:41 -0400
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Sunday, June 17 2001 22:27 27 Sivan 5761
(15:40) Bush: Arafat not welcome until
violence stops
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat will not be
invited to the White House until the PA halts the
violence, President George W. Bush said today.
Bush made his remarks in an address to the Conference
of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
According to Mortimer Zuckerman, the umbrella
organization's chairman, Bush also promised to soon
start the process of moving the US Embassy from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem.
To read more about what Zuckerman said in a news
conference held earlier today in Jerusalem about the
situation between Israel and the US, click here
(http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/06/17/LatestNews/LatestNews.28449.ht
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:35:24 -0400
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Iranian official says water shortage critical
http://www.irna.com/en/tnews/010618183159.etn01.shtml
Iranian official says water shortage critical
Semnan, Semnan Prov., June 17, IRNA -- Iran is on the brink of a
serious water crisis, alarmed Iranian Deputy Energy Minister
Qolam-Reza Manouchehri here Sunday.
Manouchehri, who was addressing a ceremony to inaugurate several
water development projects in the central Iranian province of Semnan,
stressed the need to economize on water supplies.
He expressed regret that the country's underground water supplies
had substantially diminished due to overuse of water resources for
irrigation.
Some 90 percent of the country's water supplies, he added, are
being used in the agriculture sector which produces less than 1 kg
of crop using one cubic meter water, whereas in the developed
countries with the same amount of water two kgs of crops are
produced.
Manouchehri said that some of the ways for optimal use of
supplies are to increase irrigation and production efficiency and
apply more convenient cultivating approaches.
A dry spell has been raging through Iran for the last four years
thus leaving several major water resources dried out. The drought has
so far inflicted heavy damage on the country's agricultural sector.
Iranian officials are currently considering rationing water in Iran's
drought stricken provinces, including the capital, Tehran.
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:42:57 -0400
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June 15, 2001
Colosseum 'built with loot from sack of Jerusalem temple'
By Bruce Johnston in Rome
THE Colosseum, the huge Roman amphitheatre used for animal shows and
gladiatorial combat, was built with the spoils of the sack of the Jewish
temple in Jerusalem, a new archaeological find suggests.
A recently deciphered inscription was made public yesterday as organisers
prepared for an exhibition on the monument, opening next week. A feature of
the show is a large, altar-like stone with a chiselled Latin inscription, which
tells how a senator, Lampaudius, had the Colosseum restored in AD 443.
But holes still visible in the surface clearly corresponded to different lettering,
this time in bronze, which had been previously fitted into the stone. After a
long study, Prof Geza Alfoldy of Heidelberg University, working with Italian
archaeologists, deciphered the puzzle. He concluding that the original
inscription read: "Imp. T. Caes. Vespasianus Aug. Amphitheatrum Novum Ex
Manubis Fieri Iussit."
The translation is: "The Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus had this new
amphitheatre erected with the spoils of war. There is no doubt what war this
was, the sack of Jerusalem," said Cinzia Conti, the director of surface
restoration at the Colosseum, yesterday.
Ms Conti said the Emperor Titus inaugurated the Colosseum in AD 80 with
100 days of festivities, but his father, Vespasian, had first opened it in AD
79, shortly before he died, when it was still unfinished. The original bronze
lettering on the stone altar would have been made for the original opening.
The sack of Jerusalem occurred in Vespasian's reign in AD 70, when a revolt
by the Jews was crushed and Jerusalem was captured by Titus. The temple
was destroyed and a million people were said to have died in the siege. The
Arch of Titus, at the end of the Roman Forum nearest to the Colosseum,
commemorates the victory, and bas-reliefs show Roman soldiers making off
with booty from the temple.
Two years after the sack of Jerusalem, in AD 72, work on the Colosseum,
officially known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, began.
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