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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...
...stopping for a moment to look at Sharon as more than just the one-dimensional stereotype he has become: the hard-line former Defense Minister who led Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and still refuses to shake Yasser Arafat's hand. For starters, no one calls him Ariel, Hebrew for lion. He is known universally in Israel by his nickname, Arik. And though he packs a lot of weight on his shortish frame these days, he was once a slightly bearish but, in some circles, sexy military hero. A photo of him from the 1973 October War shows...
...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...