Word: ariels
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...hundred members of the Israeli General Staff could sign a protest against their commander Ariel Sharon's conduct in Beirut, then we feel that the least we can do, us Jews and non-Jews committed to social justice, is make our vigorous opposition to the conduct of the Begin-Sharon government known to that government's representative. And, as citizens of the United States, which guaranteed the safety of Palestinian civilians in the Habit negotiations, we also must speak out. Please join us if you too believe in the quest for an equitable and just peace in the middle East
...such horror was the Sept. 14 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel, Amin's younger brother. That atrocity had threatened to engulf Lebanon in sectarian turmoil and gave Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon an excuse to send his troops into West Beirut. Late last week Gemayel's Phalangist Party announced the arrest of a man suspected of planting the deadly bomb in its East Beirut party headquarters. He was described only as someone in contact with "foreign quarters." There were no such leads, however, in the death last week of PL.O. Chief of Staff Saad Sayel, better known...
That rising tide of anger and frustration is directed primarily at one man: Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, a general and hero of the 1973 October War. Simply put, the soldiers are afraid that he will make the I.D.F. a scapegoat for the Beirut massacre. Brigadier General Amram Mitzna, head of the I.D.F.'s Staff and Command College, announced two weeks ago that he was requesting a leave of absence in protest over the killings. (He has since relented.) Mitzna bluntly told Sharon, "I have lost faith-in-you." More than 100 top Israeli officers, including everyone above the rank...
When the Knesset met Wednesday in special session, onstage, front and center, was Ariel Sharon, who had uttered not a word in public since the news of the massacre broke in Israel four days earlier. Head bowed, he lumbered slowly into the dining room and quietly looked over his speech. Later, as Begin entered the Knesset chamber, he carefully averted his eyes from his Defense Minister...
...unthinkable tragedies of Jewish history conspire with the radical vulnerability of Israel to enforce sometimes an aggressive and absolutist approach to life. In a warrior like Ariel Sharon, that morality hardens into a brute logic: the end justifies the means. It is a complicated and dangerous business when the People of the Book become also a People...