Word: ariel
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...award; it's an acknowledgment of the nominee's influence over the events that have dominated the week's headlines. And as hundreds of Israeli tanks rolled back into the cities of the West Bank and the Middle East crisis threatened to spiral out of control, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was that person. He appeared to hold in his hands the fate of the entire region - and perhaps the fate of the U.S. war on terrorism...
...week's end the Bush administration was urging Sharon to withdraw, and the absence of a clear endgame in "Operation Defensive Shield" caused considerable consternation in the Israeli media. But Ariel Sharon is a practical man, a field commander more comfortable with tactical improvisation than grand strategic visions. His preferred method is to change the "facts on the ground," creating new faits accompli that develop a life of their own and change the terms of grand strategic debate. That's the rationale for the settlement movement - to stake an Israeli claim on the lands captured in 1967 by simply seizing...
Items number one and two on Saddam Hussein’s to-do list: write ‘thank you’ letters to Hamas and Ariel Sharon. Had it not been for the suicidal attacks of Hamas terrorists and Ariel Sharon’s war on Palestinian cities, Saddam would be either dead or on his way to a war crimes tribunal in the Hague...
...then the Israeli-Palestinian conflict took a turn for the worse. Vicious suicide bombings became near daily occurrences, killing 42 Israeli civilians since Passover. In return, Ariel Sharon declared “war” and sent tanks into the West Bank. The Israeli Defense Force has spent the past week besieging Yasser Arafat’s headquarters, raiding homes, and destroying everything and everyone in its path...
...Bush administration may have persuaded itself that Israel's offensive in the West Bank is a brief interlude on the way to a cease-fire, but events on the ground are starting to suggest a different outcome. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon drew an almost panicky response from Washington Tuesday with his renewed suggestion that Yasser Arafat be exiled from the occupied territories. Sharon had last week bowed to the consensus among his security chiefs, his Labor Party coalition partners and the Bush administration that ousting the Palestinian leader would exacerbate rather than resolve Israel's security crisis, which...