Word: ariel
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...heavy scents of bougainvillaea and manure mingle in the hot afternoon air at Shikmim Farm. Ariel Sharon pulls down the brim of his black Australian bush hat--a Jewish Crocodile Dundee. On his thick fingers, he is counting off the names his political enemies hurl at him: "Hard-liner. Extremist. Rightist. War criminal." His 1,500 acres on the edge of the Negev Desert is one of the few private farms in Israel and a refuge from the controversy that has followed him through 55 years in the military and in politics. Sharon, 72, the leader of Israel's right...
...common consensus among most of the media in this country seems to be that Palestinians, under the orders of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, used Ariel Sharon's visit to the al-Aqsa mosque as a pretext to launch a violent and bloody campaign against Israel. The public is unaware of the context of 50 years of tensions in which this visit must be seen...
They are also unaware of what Ariel Sharon represents to the Palestinian people. In 1982, during Ariel Sharon's tenure as Israeli Defense Minister, two massacres took place in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Southern Lebanon. Two thousand unarmed Palestinian men, women and children were slaughtered. The Israeli Kahan commission described how Sharon ordered the Israeli commanders in Lebanon to allow Phalangist militiamen into the camps to clean out the terrorists he claimed were lurking there. Sharon was held indirectly responsible for the massacres and removed from office. Palestinians feel that the hands of this...
This latest visit by Ariel Sharon to the Al-Aqsa Mosque was merely the last straw, yet superficial media coverage fails to acknowledge this. Palestinians have faced 50 years of oppression...
...institution of higher learning, discussion is vital to our campus's mission. We can't just discuss the safe issues. We must be willing to confront the difficult ones. Say that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount is directly responsible for the recent outbreak of violence. Say that Israel has the right to use all powers at its disposal to defend its soldiers and citizens against mob violence. Say you support a Palestinian state. Say you oppose any kind of Palestinian sovereignty in Jerusalem. But don't say that you don't want to talk about it. Those...