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The end of the Sharon era

Once despised by a generation of Israelis, Ariel Sharon became a venerated father figure. His passing from the political scene leaves the future of the Middle East in even greater doubt.
By Aluf Benn

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  • Friday, January 6, 2006 10:53 PM

    Why can only the worst do the best?

    It took the rabidly anti-Communist Nixon to do what no Democrat would ever have been allowed to do, to go to and establish rapprochement with China. And it took the war-criminal Sharon to do what no Labor leader would ever have been permitted -- to get the Israeli settlers to leave Gaza.

    Are we doomed to forever having the worst among us be the only ones with the political credibility to be able to do what is right and necessary? Why is that?

    —smartalek Read smartalek's other letters

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