Ariel Sharon may be waking up!

[DotCommunist]

You'd like The Onion. Lots of surprising stories there which would intrigue Urban.

godammit

 

[DaveCinzano]

The answer to your question is "no" unless you can provide a reference.

is the New Yorker credible? Its the reference I have found...


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...ys-gaffes-worsen-in-israel.html#ixzz21xS54k39[/quote]

Ahem:

Andy Borowitz (born January 4, 1958) is an American comedian and New York Times-bestselling author who won the first National Press Club award for humor.

He is known for creating the satirical column The Borowitz Report, which has an audience in the millions and was acquired by The New Yorker.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

is the New Yorker credible? Its the reference I have found...


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...ys-gaffes-worsen-in-israel.html#ixzz21xS54k39

Ahem:[/quote]

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Ho ho, could you believe a spoof?

 

[weltweit]

However, back on track ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre

 

[Bernie Gunther]

I found this extract from Fisk's book, published as a sort of obituary by the Indy when Sharon first turned vegetable.

Fisk reported from Sabra and Chatila, and on their less well-known, but equally atrocious aftermath.

So it is as a war criminal that Sharon will be known forever in the Arab world, through much of the Western world, in fact - save, of course, for the craven men in the White House and the State Department and the Blair Cabinet - as well as many leftist Israelis. Sabra and Chatila was a crime against humanity. Its dead counted more than half the fatalities of the World Trade Centre attacks of 2001. But the man who was responsible was a "man of peace". It was he who claimed that the preposterous Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian bin Laden. He it was who as Israeli foreign minister opposed Nato's war in Kosovo, inveighing against "Islamic terror" in Kosovo. "The moment that Israel expresses support...it's likely to be the next victim. Imagine that one day Arabs in Galilee demand that the region in which they live be recognised as an autonomous area, connected to the Palestinian Authority..." Ah yes, Sharon as an ally of another war criminal, Slobodan Milosevic. There must be no Albanian state in Kosovo.

Ever since he was elected in 2001 - and especially since his withdrawal of settlements from the rubbish tip of Gaza last year, a step which would, according to his spokesman, turn any plans for a Palestinian state in the West Bank into "formaldehyde" - his supporters have tried to turn Sharon into a pragmatist, another Charles de Gaulle. His new party was supposed to be proof of this. But in reality, Sharon had more in common with the putchist generals of Algeria.

He voted against the peace treaty with Egypt in 1979. He voted against a withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 1985. He opposed Israel's participation in the Madrid peace conference in 1991. He opposed the Knesset plenum vote on the Oslo agreement in 1993. He abstained on a vote for peace with Jordan in 1994. He voted against the Hebron agreement in 1997. He condemned the manner of Israel's retreat from Lebanon in 2000. By 2002, he had built 34 new Jewish colonies on Palestinian land.

And he was a man of peace.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/ariel-sharon-by-robert-fisk-521809.html

 

[teqniq]

but not anymore...

 

[Balbi]

It's true though what's with all these evil people who DON'T DIE? Sharon hasn't died and nor has thatcher!

 

[frogwoman]

I overheard an israeli woman today saying that Sharon's family were receiving his full salary as PM up until he died and that was one of the reasons why the life support machine wasn't turned off.

I dunno whether that's true but it sounds like something that would happen, his family were very corrupt

 

[nino_savatte]

I overheard an israeli woman today saying that Sharon's family were receiving his full salary as PM up until he died and that was one of the reasons why the life support machine wasn't turned off.

I dunno whether that's true but it sounds like something that would happen, his family were very corrupt

Wasn't his son involved in some property scandal not long ago?

 

[Ax^]

if his family keep him alive solely for the purposes of claiming his PM salary

I think that's a fitting epitaph for the fella

 

[Sirena]

I see Tony Blair is going to the funeral...

 

[nino_savatte]

I see Tony Blair is going to the funeral...

War criminals hang together. I wonder if his chum, Paul Kagame, is going too?

 

[Sirena]

After 8 years of being in a comma, Ariel Sharon has thankfully come to a full stop....

 

[weltweit]

I see Tony Blair is going to the funeral...

I heard Blair speaking at the funeral on the radio. It was cringe-making, can't see that it will have put him in good stead with the other side with whom he is supposed to be negotiating.

 

[Sirena]

I heard Blair speaking at the funeral on the radio. It was cringe-making, can't see that it will have put him in good stead with the other side with whom he is supposed to be negotiating.

His appointment was always a cynical piece of political cronyism. I don't think anyone expected him to do anything other than schooze up with his real chums...

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Tony Blair pays tribute to the mass murderer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25710124

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Noam Chomsky on the Legacy of Ariel Sharon: Not Speaking Ill of the Dead "Imposes a Vow of Silence"

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/13/noam_chomsky_on_the_legacy_of