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...Ariel Sharon loathes Yasser Arafat. If he could do it all over again, Sharon has said, he would have killed Arafat in Lebanon 20 years ago when he had the chance. And yet last week-with the number of Israelis slaughtered on his watch rising, the country sliding closer to war and its citizens sinking deeper into despair-Sharon tried to keep his enemy awake, as if Arafat were the only person in the world who could understand his troubles. Before dawn on Wednesday, Israeli Apache helicopters fired missiles into a building next to the office compound in Ramallah where...
Under siege from both sides of his government and desperate to prop up Israelis' sagging morale, Ariel Sharon is mixing his messages. In response to two painful Palestinian hits on Israeli military targets in the West Bank and Gaza, Sharon's army pounded Palestinian targets for two days last week and fired a missile directly into the Ramallah compound where Yasser Arafat remains under virtual house arrest. And in a speech to the nation on Thursday he vowed to build "buffer zones to achieve security separation" between Israelis and Palestinians. But a day later he ordered his army to avoid...
...Ariel Sharon's tanks may not have moved from Yasser Arafat's doorstep in two months, and his tanks and planes are pulverizing Palestinian targets, but it's the Israeli leader who now appears to be under siege. Israeli forces killed some 16 Palestinians Wednesday in raids across the West Bank and Gaza, as Sharon's administration launched what it called a "counter-guerrilla war" in the Palestinian territories. Nine Palestinians were killed the previous day in retaliation for a dramatic guerrilla attack that killed six Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah. More than 40 people have died...
...know, Ariel, you’re actually quite lucky. Whereas I had to surrender complete control of my country, you have the luxury of withdrawing to Israel’s recognized international borders with the Israeli state completely intact. To be honest, you’d be better off that way. Inside the Green Line, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. Outside the green line, Israel is guilty of apartheid rule. Take it from someone you knows: apartheid is a worm that will eat away at your society as if it were a rotten apple. The reservists?...
...fracas began when Thomas N. Saunders ’02 wrote to Throptalk on behalf of council candidate Ariel Z. Weisbard ’02. In his e-mail, Saunders singled out candidate Thomas J. Mucha ’03 for criticism...