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...like for an apologetic prophet-one who publicly regrets having been "insensitive" to his audience-but you'll come up empty. Not so in today's world. Take Pat Robertson, Christian Right pioneer and host of the 700 Club. Last week, within a day of Sharon's massive stroke, the televangelist asserted that it had been God's punishment for leader's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip: "Here he's at the point of death. He was dividing God's land," said Robertson. "For any prime minister of Israel who decides he's going to carve it up and give...
...believe it after Sharon, the man who once planned and nurtured the Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, had them forcibly evacuated last August, enabling Israeli troops to leave and turning the entire Gaza Strip at last over to Palestinian self-rule. In the weeks before Sharon's debilitating stroke, rumors abounded that he was preparing to make bold withdrawals in the West Bank as well...
...hardening of Israel's posture, meaning more settlements, walls, incursions, assassinations and collective punishment. We Palestinians like to say that Israeli political developments are a purely domestic Israeli matter?but that isn't always true. Sharon's departure from the Likud erupted in a political volcano. Sharon's stroke will create another volcano. We Palestinians happen to live on the slopes of the volcano...
...take the bold steps necessary to move the peace process forward. Of all the strengths that Sharon displayed during his decades in Israeli politics, willingness to compromise never was among them. And yet, as we contemplate Sharon’s sudden exit from political life, triggered by a massive stroke from which the chance of a full recovery appears slim, we worry about the consequences for a peace process that, largely as a result of his actions, has steadily gained momentum in recent months.Sharon, like the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was a towering figure in the ongoing strife between...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remained in a medically induced coma last night after suffering a major stroke on Wednesday, and Israelis and Palestinians alike began to consider seriously a political future that probably would not include the prominent leader. “[Sharon] will not continue to be prime minister, but maybe he will be able to understand and to speak,” José Cohen, a neurosurgeon who has performed multiple operations on the prime minister, told the Jerusalem Post. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, the director of the Jerusalem hospital where Sharon is being treated, said that Sharon...