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Mr. Valdron research was a fairly faithful attempt to debunk my "explosive" views.
Several problems persist:
1) The first piece he quoted, "The Case Against Ariel Sharon" (http://www.coastalpost.com/02/05/06.htm), was almost certainly written by a completely biased Palestinian supporter whose blatant disregard for history and complete and total lack of supporting bibliographic material to justify his outrageous claims nullifies the text.
2) The article from the J (http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/1709/edition_id/27/format/html/displaystory.html)
is also quoted out of context. The "he" referrent in the quote Den included in his piece was not Ariel Sharon. It was the retired general who decided to liquidate his prisoners because he couldn't guard them. Whatever the moral implications of this decision, it wasn't Ariel Sharon's. All you had to do was read the piece to understand.
3) I'm not going to argue the points raised about Lebanon. The General made a mistake. He didn't pull the trigger. He didn't drop the bombs. But he was complacent while others died. Having said that, it's not Israel's job to protect
the Arabs living in the refugee camps. Their fellow Arabs left them there to rot and many of the terrorists who've joined the ranks of Hezbollah and Hamas come from those camps. Those people, like all other refugees on the planet, should have been resettled.
And finally, these tirades against Sharon are all about Israel. Sharon was a general defending a tiny nation in their homeland beseiged on all sides by people who, even now, call for its destruction. The same people who decry how horrible and despicable Sharon was seem to be eerily quiet about Arafat, Abu Mazen, the leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the many, many others. Arafat was a cold-blooded murderer. Not a General in a uniform fighting wars but a cold-blooded criminal murderer. Mr. Valdron saves his anger for the Jewish general and not self-proclaimed murderers and says he's not anti-Israel. Maybe someday he'll look in the mirror and see a more true reflection.
