[ April 18, 2024 ]
The Israelis are blamed for all sorts of things. They have been accused of poisoning the wells of Palestinians, though no such evidence has ever been found. They are blamed for using “decadent” Western culture to weaken the moral fiber of fine upstanding Palestinian Muslim youths — but that (admittedly deplorable) “decadent” culture is a worldwide phenomenon, that can be found by anyone on the Internet, and hardly requires any hidden persuasion from Israel to assure its enthusiastic adoption by Palestinians. A well-educated and worldly Lebanese Christian lady of my acquaintance once solemnly assured me that Lebanese beekeepers were certain that Israel had let loose in northern Lebanon a strain of aggressive “Israeli bees,” that did not themselves produce honey, but killed the Lebanese bees that did, thereby destroying that country’s honey farmers. No accusation against Israel, no matter how absurd, fails to find its true believers.
Now Israel is being blamed for the high rate of diabetes among Palestinians. That report, from Elder of Ziyon, is here:
The Lajee Center, an NGO centered in the Aida UNRWA camp, wrote in theirDecember newsletter:
Story continues below advertisementOn November 19, 1for3 and Lajee Center presented a webinar on Managing Chronic Disease in Conflict settings, featuring Health for Palestine Director Dr. Bram Wispelwey, Community Health Worker (CHW) Ashghan Awais, Asmaa Rimawi, an advanced medical student and Health for Palestine researcher, and 1for3 Director Nidal Al-Azraq. They presented data from a two-year study that revealed significant improvement in diabetes due to the Community Health Worker program. Palestinians in Aida and Azza Refugee Camps suffer high levels of diabetes and hypertension. Dr. Wispelwey put Palestinians’ declines in health in the context of settler colonialism, presenting on the violence of military occupation and comparing Palestinians’ health to that of Indigenous and Black people harmed by settler colonialism in the United States. Moreover, the Middle East and North Africa region currently has the highest rates of diabetes in the world. While the older generation of Palestinians has lower rates than the rest of the region, middle aged Palestinians have higher rates. Rates for diabetes in the West Bank are twice the global rate and more than twice the rate in Israel.
“Settler colonialism” – a phrase affixed to Israel by its enemies – is not only a travesty (Israelis are not “colonizing” their own ancestral homeland), but it has nothing to do with the high rates of diabetes among the Palestinians. The rates of the disease in the West Bank are not different from that of Arabs elsewhere, and can be attributed to several factors. The first is diet. The Arabs, more prosperous than before, now have adopted a richer diet, with a higher amount of animal fats. Instead of alcohol, they drink sugary carbonated beverages and fruit juices; they drink highly sweetened tea and coffee; the high intake of all this sweetness increases the risk of diabetes. Arab desserts, too, tend to be very sweet, often pastries drenched in honey. Vegetables and fresh fruit are ever less important components of the Arab diet.
The shift, all over the Arab world, from rural to urban settings, has led to more sedentary lives and less physical exercise. The socioeconomic development in some Arab states – especially the fantastic sums of oil wealth –has allowed for higher income and more consumption, especially of Western fast-food, and the rich Western diet. Arabs enjoy socializing, especially inviting guests to their homes for meals; this encourages gatherings and high caloric intake. In many Gulf Arab states, the indigenous Arabs are waited on hand and foot by an army of expats. In Qatar, for example, only 10% of the population consists of Qataris; the rest are expat workers who attend to the every need of their Qatari employers who scarcely have to lift a finger. It is much the same with the Arabs in Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Bahrain, and Kuwait. A life of cosseted indolence contributes to the rise in rates of diabetes.
The video of the seminar shows Dr. Wispelway spending some 16 of his 18 minutes talking about his theories that Israel is responsible for Palestinians having high rates of diabetes, blaming everything from the “Naqba” to “settler colonialism” to tear gas to the Oslo Accords.
What he didn’t spend much time on was the fact that the entire Arab world has high rates of diabetes….
The map can be seen here.
The map shows that the Arab world — from Morocco to Algeria – has the highest incidence of diabetes in the world. The Palestinians simply exhibit the same rates – not higher ones – as their fellow Arabs. But we don’t blame the high rate of diabetes in Qatar, or Tunisia, or Saudi Arabia, on Israel.
There is no reason to blame Israel for the high rates of diabetes among the Palestinians. Their rates for the disease are not different from the rates in such Arab states as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, places where the Israelis have had no effect on the health of the populace.
While Dr. Wispelway, a left-wing Israeli, wants to blame the Jewish state for the fact that Palestinians eat too much, have an unhealthy diet, and do not exercise, we know that is a baseless accusation, for these same behaviors are found among the many other Arab populations that exhibit similarly high rates of diabetes, but are without any conceivable connection to Israelis.
Here are the reasons for high rates of diabetes among the Palestinian and other Arabs:
- The change from a rural to an urban, more sedentary life.
- The increase in prosperity, especially in the oil states, that has inexorably led to a richer diet, with more meat, more animal fats, more starch (pasta and pizza have become favorite foods in the Gulf Arab states).
- The preference for sugary desserts, especially those using honey, in Arab cuisine.
- The consumption, instead of alcohol (which is haram), of sweetened soft drinks and sweet fruit juices. Diet sodas, too, help cause Type 2 diabetes.
- The Arab preference for drinking highly sweetened tea and coffee.
- The spread of junk food outlets all over the Arab lands, especially in the Gulf.
- The Arab preference for socializing over meals, usually at private homes where for the host it is a matter of pride to lay on a veritable feast.
- The Arab distaste for manual labor, and preference for sedentary office work.
- The army of expats who in the Gulf Arab oil states vastly outnumber the locals (in Qatar the ratio is 10 to 1), and make it possible for the natives to be waited on hand-and-foot. Such an indolent life-style naturally increases the incidence of diabetes.
But none of those reasons are mentioned by Dr. Wispelway. Why do you think that is?
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25 Comments
3 years ago
The parasitic muslims are just like libturd dumocraps!!!!! They all lie and blame everyone else for their own failures!
3 years ago
Yeah, it must be Israel’s fault. Its van Riebeeck’s fault that the locals destroyed South Africa. Its Sweden’s fault for producing a mentally unstable climate partner for John Kerry, and the list goes on and on. Oh, and I wasn’t at Capitol Hill on THAT day, I’m just confused.
3 years ago
Everyday another idiocy.
3 years ago
Reply to
very old white guy
Here is the correct medicine to solve all your problems. A genuine Arab product !!
3 years ago
Zach Murphy, Ninja Nerd Medicine, recently lectured on Vitamin D and CoViD-19 and concluded that Third World ethnicity, genetics and lifestyle cause Vitamin D deficiency and are themselves major co-morbidities.
3 years ago
Reply to
Doug Huffman
You are right I read somewhere that Vit D deficiency contributes to diabetes
So they cover up from head to toe and dont get enough Vit D from the sun
Here:
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to the onset of diabetes. This
review summarizes the role of Vitamin D in maintaining the normal
release of insulin by the pancreatic beta cells (β-cells). Diabetes is
initiated by the onset of insulin resistance. The β-cells can overcome
this resistance by releasing more insulin, thus preventing
hyperglycaemia. However, as this hyperactivity increases, the β-cells
experience excessive Ca2+ and reactive oxygen species (ROS)
signalling that results in cell death and the onset of diabetes. Vitamin
D deficiency contributes to both the initial insulin resistance and the
subsequent onset of diabetes caused by β-cell death. Vitamin D acts to
reduce inflammation, which is a major process in inducing insulin
resistance.
3 years ago
3 years ago
The one thing the Palis can’t accuse the Israelis of is the incredible stupidity of the Palestinians as well as their unbelievable gullibility.
3 years ago
Don’t forget how Israel trained suicide dolphins to blow up Arab muslim fishing boats and muslim ships.
If a child falls in Ramallah and scrapes it’s knee, its Israel’s fault. If someone in Gaza City opens the fridge for a cold drink and there is none to be had, its Israel’s fault. If a child is playing with an unexploded terrorist’s rocket on a beach in Gaza and it suddenly blows up, its Israel’s fault. When Hamas turns off the electricity, its Israel’s fault. When someone is accused of being an Israeli spy and executed without trial, its Israel’s fault that it turned out that the “spy” wasn’t one. If there is a food shortage in Iran, it’s Israel’s fault. When terrorists blow up a Coptic church in Egypt, its Israel’s fault. After a lifetime of buggaring young men Arafat dies of aids, its Israel’s fault.
Yea, I got it.
3 years ago
Somewhat reminds me of all of those black female landwhales that blamed systemic racism for their morbid obesity.
Dat whie man … he dun cum ‘n made me do all dat eatin’. ’tain’t my fault, it be du whitey’s fault.
3 years ago
How typical for the paliestinian shitheads to always blame others for their own stupidity
3 years ago
Obviously all those JOOOOOSSSS! are making the poor Pallyswines eat all of that sugar and carbs
3 years ago
High rate of Stupidity amongst Palestinians and their cohorts will be Israel’s blame next!!!
3 years ago
Not the whole story about the muslim prevalence for diseases and mental illness.
Islam and Inbreeding
3 years ago
Reply to
patd
Just a ways to improve the IQ of the race. Goat beards on muslim men and women is a sign of a successful crossbreed!
3 years ago
Absurd! But expected. Once again, something goes wrong in a muslim’s life and it’s a Jew’s fault. This will never end.
3 years ago
I practiced Emergency Medicine for 50 years and am Certified for Life (three tests each one a decade apart – 1980, 1991, 2002). Of course, I have read about diabetes for all of those years and the college/internship/residency needed to become a University Instructor for doctors. In order to “cause” an illness, there must be an “means” – then “method – and then “opportunity. And while sugar is sometimes blamed – the glucose of a coke quicker to raise the blood “sugar” than the sucrose of a fruit, yet Diabetes seems to be an immune response inherited more than diet-organized.
Childhood Diabetes or Type I is an allergy against the islet cells in the pancreas that make insulin – devastating. And Adult Diabetes(Type II) is an allergy against the cellular door that is supposed to – insulin as the key – accept glucose as delivered by the liver (the breakup of glycogen chains of sugars). Most nutrients are transported into cells rather than simply passing through by diffusion. So, the treatments are different; neither to be caused by diet, although “couch potatoes” eating and watching TV all day do deserve to be screened – their weight gain may be more of a symptom than a cause.
If glucose is cannot get in (insulin absence or insulin resistance), body cells will start to get energy from fats and then you have ketoacidosis – a juicy fruit gum smell of the breath I detected in seconds. I suspected as much with someone’s steam engine, rapid breathing was to lower the acidosis by getting rid of carbon dioxide and thus carbonic acid. I could reassure parents that though this might be the beginning of a long, outpatient-care disease, that their relative would respond to IV Insulin – either type of diabetes – and I expected the patient to go home in 2-3 hours as we confirmed some strategies of treatment until the Internist was able to be even more clear in some clinic.
One time, we solved my wife’s diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes) by having her eat a lot of broccoli while we did finger testing of glucose. Baby fine = normal gestation of 40 weeks; mother no longer sick ever with diabetes. No other MD needed. The fetus- turned-into-baby now a teen, likes broccoli. Go figure. I still like Coke (Pepsi okay in a pinch).
None of this produces a method of causing diabetes in angry people living apart but nearby. I know of no poisons that do this – islet cell damaging specific or glucose transport into the cell specific (the insulin being the key). There are certainly medications that aim at cell receptors – and most do – to correct function but none comes to mind to damage these variables. I suppose cyanide disturbs the oxidation pathways in the mitochondria for death in seconds; but autopsies would pick up the clues and this has nothing to do with diabetes.
The word itself comes from peeing too much. And a thousand years ago if such patients peed on an an ant hill – the diagnosis would come clear that if the ants ran around happy it was sugar (the Diabetes Mellitus somehow related). If the ants were bored and put on raincoats and mumble bad words, it was pure water control of the hypopituitary gland making too much or to little Anti Diabetic Hormone (thus if every day – Diabetes Insipidus). When you pee a lot after a few beers it is NOT alcohol; it is that you altered your ADH, so more water escapes. Alcohol level and hang over – no change.
I do not see how Israel could commit the crime – because you need motive, means, and opportunity, Well the Moslems were told (in the Koran ?) that was okay to murder Jews when they went out of their walls to till gardens in the morning – at least so I read. Motives never stop and I worked with the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia – yet a Christian.
After 2000 years of arguments stretching from Hungary in East Europe (think Dracula and stakes in the heart) to Spain in West Europe [think of Queen Isabella on a horse leading from the front), we only get an occasional thaw as Team Trump achieved even if some money was moved around. Peace is usually about money soothing the loss of land as we paid Spain for Cuba, the Philippines, etc. Did President Teddy blow up one of our ships to start the war? Not mine to know. Debatable in history and historic novels. Many wars are started where the good guys pose as bad guys.
Now I am 78 and have for at least 60 years loved cokes, my teeth are not great but no diabetes – just tested the 3 month survey blood test HbA1C – Online: An A1C test is a blood test that reflects your average blood glucose levels over the past 3 months. “The A1C test is sometimes called the hemoglobin A1C, HbA1c, glycated hemoglobin, or glycohemoglobin test. Hemoglobin is the part of a red blood cell that carries oxygen to the cells.” Assume possible motive like China has with “gain function” RNA manipulations of COVID viruses (new species and not just expected mutations), I do not see means or opportunity. Can another MD explain all this better?
Oh, and my vaccines received as a boy still work. Viruses do not mutate all day long or their protruding S spike key to the mammalian lung cells would stop working; and it is now working better – more invading viral S spikes (think basket balls) and more receiving ACE2 affinity (think basketball nets) so California sees a higher attack rate. Who do we arrest – Dr. Fauci here (on salary for now – higher than the President’s income) and his partner in crime the Cat Lady of Wuhan. Both can watch TV in their own homes but no phones. I could write the WHO white wash report coming soon and the opposite – the Minority report which I have started. It has not been about bats for perhaps 14+ years – perhaps more like 20 years.<b> Bio-War – time to read more about Kublai Kahn who conquered the Chinese by going after their water source. Then he built the pleasure domes of Xanadu on the sacred Alf River and next he built Beijing. CP
3 years ago
I practiced Emergency Medicine for 50 years and am Certified for Life (three tests each one a decade apart – 1980, 1991, 2002. Of course, I have read about diabetes for all of those years and the college/internship/residency needed to become a University Instructor for doctors. In order to “cause” an illness, there must be weapon. And while sugar is sometimes blamed – the glucose of a coke quicker to raise the blood “sugar) than the sucrose of a fruit, yet Diabetes seems to be an immune response inherited more than diet organized. Childhood Diabetes or Type I is an allergy against the islet cells in the pancreas that make insulin; and Adult Diabetes is an allergy against the cellular door that is supposed to accept glucose as delivered by the liver (the breakup of glycogen chains of sugars). Most nutrients are transported into cells rather than simply passing through by diffusion. So, the treatments are different; neither to be caused by diet although “couch potatoes” eating and watching TV all day, do deserve to be screened – their weight gain may be more of a symptom than a cause.
If glucose cannot get in, body cells will start to get energy from fats and then you have ketoacidosis – a juicy fruit gum smell of the breath I detected in seconds when I suspected someone’s steam engine, rapid breathing was to lower the acidosis by getting rid of carbon dioxide and thus carbonic acid. I could reassure parents that though this might be the beginning of a long, outpatient-care disease, that their relative would respond to IV Insulin – both types – and I expected the patient to go home in 2-3 hours as we confirmed some strategies of treatment until the Internist was able to be even more clear in some clinic. One time, we solved my wife’s diabetes during pregnancy by having her eat a lot of broccoli while we did finger testing of glucose. Baby fine = normal gestation of 40 weeks; mother no longer sick ever with diabetes.
None of this produces a method of causing diabetes in people living apart but nearby. I know of no poisons that do this – islet cell damaging specific or glucose transport into the cell specific. There are certainly medications that aim at cells – and most do – to correct function but none comes to mind to damage these variables. I suppose cyanide disturbs the oxidation pathways in the mitochondria for death in seconds; but autopsies would pick up the clues and this has nothing to do with diabetes. The word itself comes from peeing to much; and a thousand years ago if such patients peed on an an ant hill – the diagnosis would come clear that if the ants ran around happy it was sugar (the Diabetes Mellitus somehow related). If the ants were bored and put on raincoats it was pure water control of the hypopituitary gland making too much or to little Anti Diabetic Hormone. When you pee a lot after a few beers it is NOT alcohol; it is that you altered your ADH so more water escaped.
I do not see how Israel could commit the crime – because you need motive, means, opportunity, Well the Moslems were told it was okay to murder Jews when they went out of their walls to till their fields. And the anger goes back 2-4000 years but still with no method to cause diabetes … NO.
3 years ago
I have to say I could not have made this up, and I don’t know anyone who could have. Talented and inventive those Fakestinians.
3 years ago
Gee wiz, I thought that was Donald Trump’s fault.
