[yshavurah] this week's snippets
- From: "Cherie Kurland" <kurlandc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "yellow springs havurah" <yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:34:18 -0400
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As good as mother's milk October 19, 2003 (Courtesy of BioIsrael)
Nutrinia's technology enables the industrial production of micro-encapsulated
insulin that can be incorporated into an infant formula while maintaining a
level of potency similar to that of the insulin present in natural mother's
milk. Nutrinia, a start-up Israeli company founded by a prominent Israeli-Arab
physician, is developing infant formula containing insulin with the same
bioavailability and potency as the insulin contained only in mother's milk. The
idea for the company's proprietary technology comes from a decade of clinical
research work by Shehadeh, an Israeli-Arab physician. Shehadeh is a prominent
pediatric diabetes researcher who also serves as the Head of the Pediatric
Department at Rambam's Meyer Children's Hospital in Haifa.
?. Studies showed that insulin plays a crucial role in helping the small
intestines to mature and develop properly. Insulin, it was observed, serves as
a well-localized growth factor on highly specific receptors in the
gastrointestinal tract (GI) and helps make the entire GI system mature in a
much healthier manner. An even more important clinical finding - currently
observed in animal models but not yet validated in humans - suggests that
mammals prone to Diabetes Type I (e.g. juvenile or Insulin-dependent Diabetes)
and deprived of mother's milk containing insulin have an increased risk of
becoming sick in the disease. ?.
From www.jcpa.org/daily for 10/14/03: See also Clans: The Backbone of
Palestinian Society - Karin Laub
At the root of Palestinian society is a tribal system that on one hand can
stifle individuals' independence, discourage dissent, and greatly restrict
women - but on the other has also helped Palestinians manage their lives during
hundreds of years of Turkish, British, and Israeli rule. "The one thing that
never breaks down is kinship," said Palestinian anthropologist Sharif Kanaana,
who reports growing hostility by some Palestinians toward those who are not
relatives or neighbors. (AP/Washington Post)
From Campus Beat (via www.jcpa.org) 10/13/03: · The Hacky Sac Intifada by
Christopher Farah
The fastest-growing protest movement on U.S. college campuses: Palestinian
liberation. But as the movement has expanded, it has developed its own
dramatic, internal conflict between white American students, eager to revel in
their disdain for American "imperialism" and embrace the most extreme
positions, and Arab students, determined to find a sympathetic mass audience
through a more diplomatic approach. "We don't support any violence against
civilians," says Summer Sharaf, an Arab-American and Rutgers alumnus. "It's
against international law, and it's immoral. I think it's funny how the people
running the Rutgers conference are all non-Arabs," Sharaf says. "It makes me
wonder why they're here, why they're doing what they're doing." (Salon
[requires registration])
http://www.debka.com/article_print.php?aid=638: Two Gazan Palestinians
detonated bomb that killed 3 Americans DEBKAfile Exclusive Expose October 19,
2003, 12:56 PM
?.The murderous bomb-attack was planned and executed by Yasser Zannoon and
Mohammad al-Baba, heads of a Khan Younes militia in the southern Gaza Strip.
The undercover allegiances of this Palestinian militia hint at the labyrinth of
terrorist groups rampant in the Gaza Strip. On the one hand, the Khan Younes
militia operates in the framework of the Popular Resistance Committees, whose
chief is Yasser Arafat?s man in Gaza, Jemal Sema Dana of the notorious
Rafah-based smuggling clan. On the other, it is linked to Rashid Abu Shbak,
acting head of the Palestinian Authority?s Preventive Security Service that was
set up legitimately under the 1993 Oslo Accords to counter Palestinian
terrorism.
?.For the Palestinian terror machine, there is no more sensitive clandestine
project than its logistic mainline route system via the Gaza Strip. Those
routes are operated by a lethal mix of Preventive Security
officers-turned-terrorists, Palestinian Resistance Committees? local militias
which keep the Israelis under fire, Hizballah and al Qaeda infiltrators, and
the Sema Dana clan?s Rafah-based tunnel network, the largest entry point for
Palestinian smuggled hardware.
This complicated machine was behind the attack on the US diplomatic convoy.
Zannoon and al-Baba, like most of its integral elements, function under four
hats.
Hat No. 1: Up until three and-a-half years ago, the pair were officers of the
Gaza Strip Palestinian Preventive Security service under the command of Mohamed
Dahlan. Then, in mid-2000, Yasser Arafat rewrote their job specifications in
line with the terrorist confrontation he prepared to launch against Israel in
late September. ?. To this day, therefore, Dahlan and his successor as
preventive security commander, Abu Shbak, dole out their wages to Zannoon and
Al-Baba. The only real change is that Dahlan and Abu Shbak are no longer
friends since the latter moved in on the former?s turf and no longer takes
orders from him.
Hat No. 2: Arafat?s recent reorganization of the Palestinian terror system to
seal it off against Israeli intelligence penetration ? its detachment from
official Palestinian organs and fragmentation ? has led to the redeployment of
the ex-Preventive Security officers loyal to him. These officers were spread
out and given commands of local militias ? usually in their own family
localities. The second hat assumed by Zannoon and al-Baba is therefore that of
local commanders of the Khan Younes militia.
Hat No. 3 : Arafat ordered Rashid Abu Shbak to place all the local militias of
the southern and central regions of the Gaza Strip under the command of Jemal
Sema Dana, head of the Palestinian Resistance Committees. The terrorist
movement of the Gaza Strip is thus both fragmented into militias and united
under the single command of the Committees, whose arcane nature ? enables
Arafat to wash his hands of terrorist attacks. This arrangement also provides
Sema Dana with a reserve of ?soldiers? for running operations and protecting
the Palestinians tunnel lifeline from Egypt?s northern Sinai into Rafah. This
smuggling route is all the more vital for bringing in combat manpower, weapons
and explosives since Israel blockaded all the other sea and land routes into
the Strip.
Hat No. 4: Al-Baba grafted an Islamic religious function onto the ideology of
the Khan Younes militia so as to render it acceptable to Hamas, Hizballah,
Jihad Islami and al Qaeda - both locally and in such strategic overseas centers
as Lebanon and Syria. After this ?conversion?, the Hizballah officers and bomb
experts slipping into the Gaza Strip - either through cracks in Israel?s
barriers or Sema Dana?s tunnels - shelter more comfortably with the Khan Younes
militia. They also offered its operatives expert instruction in the activation
of large explosive devices by remote control. In this way, the pair would have
acquired the expertise for blowing up the American diplomatic convoy last week.
?.The Americans are not fooled by Palestinian leaders? condemnations of the
attack and promises of cooperation and understand that no real help will be
forthcoming - especially since Friday night, October 17, the day after the FBI
agents began their investigation, when the Popular Resistance Committees Web
site was suddenly taken down. ?Preventive security? officers acted on panicky
orders coming from Ramallah and removed the site before an incautious signal
could betray the hiding places of Zannoon and al-Baba. This is also the custom
of Hizballah and al Qaeda after strikes. Despite all Arafat?s efforts to muddy
the trail leading to him and notwithstanding his failing health, he is still on
top of his terror machine.
The American embassy in Tel Aviv is under no illusions that the terrorist peril
is over. Official US trips to the Gaza Strip have been suspended indefinitely
and all security arrangements at US locations are under current review.
--- Cherie Kurland
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