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Saturday, January 7, 2006 12:00 AM

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.

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  • Saturday, January 7, 2006 09:14 AM

    Too bad he didn't travel to Europe for medical attention

    Ideally to a country with a warrant out for his arrest for his extensive war crimes. Sabra and Shatila? Act as if you've never heard the names.

    If any other country had perpetrated half the atrocities that I$rael has done there would be an unprecedented outcry from the rest of the world, but somehow the blood just runs off the I$raeli teflon.

    Without an endless flow of US "aid" money, I$rael couldn't stomp the indiginous people of that area as flat as they have been doing. Yet the concept of reducing (or eliminating) "aid" is unspeakable, invoking that splendidly crafted smokescreen/shell game of "Jewish" and "Zionist" and "I$raeli" and the thermonuclear trump card of "The Holocaust"(tm) -- the cornerstone of an industry.

    Ariel Sharon? As braindead as Karen Ann Quinlan. That was news on Wednesday. But our beloved "mainstream" media once again withholds the truth so that behind-the-scene scuttling can take place and the next cockroach can seize the controls.

    My favorite Sharon quote: On October 3, 2001, I.A.P. News reported that according to Israel Radio (in Hebrew) Kol Yisrael an acrimonious argument erupted during the Israeli cabinet weekly session last week between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Peres warned Sharon that refusing to heed incessant American requests for a cease-fire with the Palestinians would endanger Israeli interests and "turn the US against us. "Sharon reportedly yelled at Peres, saying "don't worry about American pressure, we the Jewish people control America."

    What did George Washington say about entangling foreign alliances..? Oh, I don't know -- it was so long ago! It probably wasn't anything important...

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