Former Israeli Prime Minister Sharon dead: Army radio

[jakeXT]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli general and prime minister who was in a coma for eight years after he had a stroke at the height of his power, died on Saturday aged 85, Israeli Army radio said, quoting a relative of his family.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/11/us-israel-sharon-death-idUSBREA0A09420140111

[randome]

1. He's been dead before. Give it 72 hours to be sure.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[riverwalker]

2. yup

And he's not only merely dead, he's really most sincerely dead.

[question everything]

9. Is this an expert opinion?

How sad that you have to carry hate beyond someone's grave.

You know, it is really nice outside.

[Steviehh]

16. Massacres of Palestinian refugees

at Sabra, etc tell a different story.

Israel is now part of the abuser triangle where victim, perpetrayor and rescuer change positions.

Break the Israeli abuse triangle now.

[madrchsod]

4. i forgot all about that...

with all the practice they had i`m pretty sure they got it right this time.


at least we know for sure that...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead




or do we ?

[question everything]

7. How sad your life must be

to carry hatred to a man beyond his grave.

[Steviehh]

17. Hitler

Holocaust. Hitler Holocaust.

How many graves beyond which Hasbara will go?

[randome]

19. Sad? Moi?

Hardly.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

21. That's what shovels are for!!!!!

Good riddance !!!!!

[jsr]

3. He finally stopped practicing and got it right

[cosmicone]

5. He has been dead for a while

probably was a role model for Jahi McMath's parents.

[Whisp]

13. his soul was dead for a long while

his body has caught up

no rest in peace for this monster.

[Jesus Malverde]

6. Ariel Sharon's Legacy of Separation

Few figures could unite Israeli settlers and Palestinians quite like Ariel Sharon.

“God gave him what he deserved,” one right-wing Israeli told me several years after Sharon fell into a coma. “A Jew should not force a Jew from Jewish land,” the man exclaimed, in reference to Sharon’s decision to unilaterally remove Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip in 2005. For many Arabs, the name “Sharon” is associated with the word “massacre”—specifically with the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres, which occurred after Sharon allowed Lebanese Christian militiamen to enter a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, where they killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians.

So to some Jewish settlers, Sharon was a traitor; and to some Arabs, he was a butcher. Yet Sharon, who passed away on Saturday at age 85, after an eight-year coma, was also a political architect. More so than to any other contemporary figure in the region, the status quo in Israel and the Palestinian territories can be traced to Ariel Sharon.

Though Sharon helped form the hawkish Likud Party, he was never a right-wing ideologue. Born in 1928, Sharon joined a Labor Zionist youth movement and then the Haganah, the Jewish paramilitary organization that preceded the Israel Defense Forces. On the battlefield, he distinguished himself by playing a key role in the capture of the Sinai Peninsula in 1956, 1967, and 1973. He earned a reputation not only for his skill, pragmatism, and ambition, but also for his tendency toward insubordination and unpredictable behavior.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/ariel-sharons-legacy-of-separation/282955/

[question everything]

8. Thank you. I don't know why DUers have to express their hatred

even for a dead man.

[Jesus Malverde]

10. They say he suffered the stroke at the height of his political power...

Sort of makes him bigger than life.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

11. Because he was a murderous asshole.

Because he's dead he's forgiven? No. Never forget Sabra and Shatila.

[Alamuti Lotus]

14. I recall a great deal of hatred expressed when Ussamah bin Laden died

For many in the world, Sharon--affectionately known as The Bulldozer and the Butcher Of Beirut, by virtue of his deeds--is remembered in much the same way.

[Steviehh]

18. Bulldozer gone

Like the one that killed Rachel Corrie.

[Jesus Malverde]

12. Ariel Sharon (Scheinerman) was known as The Bulldozer: a larger-than-life, blustering figure

Ariel Sharon was known as The Bulldozer: a larger-than-life, blustering figure who came to dominate the domestic political scene as much by his sheer physical presence as by his rhetoric.

To many Israelis, Sharon was a heroic warrior, having led decisive campaigns in the 1967 and 1973 wars.

But to many Palestinians he was The Butcher, who laid siege to Beirut and was responsible for the deaths of at least 800 civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982.

"No-one can lecture me about the need for peace," he once said. "I am the one who was in those battles. Therefore I am the person who can prevent war." And it is true that Sharon had fought in all of Israel's five wars.

Late in his career, Sharon pushed through disengagement from Gaza against strong opposition in Israel and from the party he led.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11574000

[MADem]

15. He was in a coma for a very long time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/middleeast/ariel-sharon-fierce-defender-of-a-strong-israel-dies-at-85.html?rref=world&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Middle%20East&action=keypress&region=FixedLeft&pgtype=article

Mr. Sharon was incapacitated eight years ago, in January 2006, and in elections that followed, Kadima still won the most votes. His former deputy, Ehud Olmert, became prime minister. But the impact of Mr. Sharon’s political shift went beyond Kadima. The hawkish Likud Party, led by his rival, Mr. Netanyahu, was returned to power in 2009, and Mr. Netanyahu, too, said then that he favored a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. Reminds me of the old Generalissimo Francisco Franco jokes on the old SNL. eom.