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...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...
...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...
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...