Word: ariel
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...height of American media recklessness came with the reporting on newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. For the most part, the American press lionized this “elder statesman” and behaved as though the Palestinians had nothing to be upset about...
...American press often tell us that an Israeli commission found Sharon indirectly responsible for the massacres, forcing his resignation. The terms “hard-liner” and “hawk” are rather soft in this case. For people like Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein or Ariel Sharon, the term “war criminal” is more apropos...
...Ariel Sharon's counterintuitive peace plan - in essence, step up the violence - may best be explained by an old Jewish allegory: A man tells his rabbi that his wife is threatening to leave him because their home is too small. The rabbi advises the man to bring his horse into the house. The following day, the skeptical fellow returns, saying his wife is even angrier now. The rabbi tells him to bring a cow into the house. This makes her even angrier, but the rabbi the next day advises the man to bring another cow into the house...
...Noted "He said he is a big fan of Israel." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, describing Michael Jackson's admiration after meeting the pop star (and Uri Geller) in New York...
ISRAEL No Forced Peace Violence flared again as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon returned to Israel following talks in Washington with U.S. President George W. Bush. A fact-finding mission led by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell began its visit to the region, holding discussions with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian negotiator Hanan Ashrawi. The committee, created last October, is seeking ways of reducing Israeli-Palestinian violence, which has now cost more than 400 lives. But Bush said the U.S would not "force peace," and the cia would no longer act as a broker in the region...