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Was "passing" really the best word to use in the headline of this story? As of this writing, the man is not actually dead; the headline made me think I'd missed something.
01-06-06 @9:03PM
If Senor Sharon survives much longer in the flesh he will never be in the position of power he once had yet
it also seems like God's perfect timing.
Sharon helped lead Israel, mis-led Israel and then ended up providing leadership for Israel to live in relative peace and security in recognition of the Palestinian people's right to independence within their own state, as the Jewish people have.
It reminds me of two dogs fighting over the same bone and if peaceful co-existence can ever happen then it must happen between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.
There are interestng parallels between Sharon and Arafat. If there is an afterlife, they may be able to swap war stories soon!
We are all upon the same Mother Earth, there is no replacement and we should all endlessly seek ways to live together in true social peace or we will end up killing each other off!
Humanely Yours ~
Peter S. Lopez
Sacramento, California
http://humane-rights-agenda.blogspot.com/
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Here is what might be a helpful idea. What if
Israel were to de-link Settlements and Occupation
by..dismantling and depopulating each and every
Settlement and closing each and every one of its
waterwells in the West Bank?
Then the Occupation could be downgraded to a
temporary security occupation with no sign that
Israel wanted any more material wealth or presence
in the West Bank. Then the Palestinians would
have a serious reason to believe that Israel was
prepared to de-occupy the West Bank if Palestine
was prepared to leave Israel Proper rigidly and
strictly alone.
Where does a Third pair of hands come in?
What if America were to freeze its aid to Israel
in mid-pipline till America was satisfied that
every Settlement and Settler had been removed,
and every Settler waterwell shut down? When that
condition had been verifiably inspectably met,
the aid could be unfrozen. The resulting low-grade temporary security occupation would end when
Israel and Palestine achieved final treaty peace.
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?
Last I looked (2:53am PST 1/07/06) PM Sharon is still alive and resting after successful brain surgery. I, along with all Palestine wish PM Sharon God speed for a full recovery and taking back power.
Get your facts straight. Why is it so hard to find journalists that actually research a story before spouting off?
Nothing original here, necessarily; I just want to reiterate that Ariel Sharon is still alive, and to speak of him in the past tense (his "passing"..?) is, in my humble estimation, kind of a sin. To the author: Your apparent left wing bias, which for the record I more or less share, is quite blatant. It's cruel to speak of someone who is dying as having already died, regardless of whether you share his/her political leanings or not.
If the idea was to speak of Sharon's "passing" simply in the sense of a passing of his political and public career, in plain English: You blew it.
"His past sins were all but forgiven". Obviously, not by you. Your article reads more and more like an obituary, and you've simply no right.
Shalom Aleichem, and G-d bless Sharon, his family, Olmert (probably the next in line, as it were), and while He's at it, all the inhabitants of Israel and Palestine.
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...
Far be it from me to defend Ariel Sharon, but I must inform the board that Mr. G. Wagner's quote: "don't worry about American pressure, we the Jewish people control America" isn't at all true. Sharon never made any such comment. It was fabricated by Islamic Association for Palestine in 2001. Regardless, I don't quite like the tone of Mr. Wagner's letter. Should we be free to criticize Israeli policies? Yes. Should we also forget Sharon's acts of brutality in Lebanon because of his recent actions in the West Bank? No. Does every criticism of Israel always disguise feelings of anti-Semitism? Not necessarily. However, Mr. Wagner's letter bothers me. I do not like how he appears to paint ALL Israelis, ALL Zionists, and ALL Jews with the same tarbrush. Are there people who use the Shoah irresponsibly as a weapon against criticism? Of course, and those individuals must be resisted; yet, in the same vein, all attempts to tarnish all of Israel, all of the Jewish community in all its many facets, with the tawdry acts of the few must also be criticized and rejected. After all, repeating anti-Semitic nonsense and fabricated quotes is not going to ease the suffering of the Palestinians OR the Israelis any sooner.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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