Word: ariel
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...easy to be confused in recent times by the public image and careening career of Ariel Sharon. From despised hawk to cuddly election-time conservative, the Israeli prime minister has been difficult to pin down...
...Israelis are entitled to their own odes to lost children. Like 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass, the daughter of Jewish settlers in the mostly Palestinian city of Hebron, who died last month when a sniper put a bullet, apparently intentionally, through her head. Last week, one-year-old Ariel Yered was critically wounded in a Palestinian mortar attack on the Atzmona settlement in the Gaza Strip. Almost 400 Palestinians and 65 Israelis have died since last fall, when peace negotiations imploded over the question of Jerusalem's status...
...situations now and then are not analogous. Israel's current Jewish government, unlike the Roman Empire, is not alien to Jerusalem. The Palestinians are not as defenseless as the ancient Jews. And Israeli opposition leader (now Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon's unwelcome stroll last September around the two Islamic shrines that now occupy the Temple platform--a provocation that may have sparked the Holy Land's current strife when Muslims responded by throwing rocks down on Jews at prayer below--has no precise 1st century cognate. Still, the intertwined dynamic of military occupation and religious clash is shockingly familiar...
...defense—that’s his fault. Embarrassing our old ally South Korea and our new acquaintance to their north by refusing to continue opening relations with North Korea—his fault. Failing to take initiative in the Middle East, despite being begged by regional leaders (Ariel Sharon gave up and left the White House to go meet with Michael Jackson)—his fault. Chilling relations with Russia and China to near-Cold War temperatures—you get the point...
...Israelis and wounding about 40 others. The Israeli pilots didn't turn the night into an inferno in the belief that it would be the last time they would fly. The pilots' mission was the first move in a multistage plan by Israel's new Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, to teach Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a lesson. But worrying questions began creeping into Israeli discussions again last week: Is Arafat really in control? And if he is, will Israeli strikes only serve to toughen his stance...