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...armed with a club and a dagger, he joined the older moshavniks guarding the fields at night from sporadic attacks by Arab villagers living nearby. "They were not afraid of anything," he observed of the moshavniks, a quality he emulated the rest of his life. He respected the moshavniks' views about the local Arabs: they believed the Arabs had "full rights in the land" but only Jews had rights "over the land." Translation: you can live here, but under...
Sharon, known as Arik to everyone, was just 14 when he joined the Haganah, a Jewish militia in British mandatory Palestine. Six years later he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that erupted after Israel declared its independence. As he rose through the ranks, he played a significant role in every one of Israel's wars. In 1967 he commanded one of three divisions that wrested the Sinai peninsula from Egypt. In 1973 he led a counterattack in Sinai that broke through Egyptian lines and ended up just 60 miles outside Cairo...
Throughout his career, Sharon has been a lightning rod in the Arab-Israeli dispute...
DIED. SHEIK MAKTOUM BIN RASHID AL-MAKTOUM, 62, pragmatic, business-minded Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and emir of Dubai who oversaw his city-state's transformation from a minor trading post to a modern metropolis; of a suspected heart attack; in Australia. With brothers Mohammed?who succeeds him as emir?and Hamdan, the avid thoroughbred fan founded Godolphin, one of horse racing's most winning stables...
...DIED. SHEIKH MAKTOUM BIN RASHID AL- MAKTOUM, 62, pragmatic, business-minded Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and emir of Dubai who oversaw his city-state's transformation from a minor trading post to a gleaming, modern metropolis; of a suspected heart attack; in Australia. Active in foreign affairs, he was also an avid thoroughbred fan. With brothers Mohammed?who succeeds him as emir?and Hamdan, he founded Godolphin, one of horse racing's most winning stables...