Who is Ariel Sharon?
Ariel Sharon, the current contended to the Israeli Prime Minister position held by Ehud Barak, is a longtime member of the Likud party. He was born at Kfar Malal in 1928 and joined the Zionist group Haganah at an early age. The Haganah was military force that defended Jewish interests in Palestine and also attacked Arabs as well. During the 1948 War of Independence, he commanded an infantry company in the Alexandroni Brigade. Sharon went on to found and lead a special commando unit that carried out special operations. He also led forces in the Sinai War of 1956 as the commander of the paratroop corps that landed in the Sinai to capture the Suez Canal alongside French and British forces. He went on to command several divisions and obtained a law degree from Tel Aviv University before leading an armored division in the Six Day War that resulted in Israel expanding its borders and obtaining the Sinai, Gaza Strip, West Bank, and most importantly, East Jerusalem. Sharon was appointed the He
Please distribute this text worldwide. It may save innocent lives. Click here and send a link via email to someone. The Middle East is living a nightmare, notably because of a man of Russian origin who became Prime Minister of Israel: Ariel Sharon. What is the profound thought of this man? This is what Amos Oz, an Israeli writer, help us to discover through an interview published by the Israeli daily Davar in December 17, 1982. Amos Oz reproduced this interview, with others, in his book in Hebrew, 1982: Amos Oz: Poh va-sham be-Erets-Yisra’el bi-setav, 1982, republished by Am Oved, Tel-Aviv, 1986. The interview is on pages 70-82. Amos Oz does not mention the name of Sharon, but uses the abbreviation Z. The facts given by Amos Oz indicate that the person interviewed is Ariel Sharon. This book has been published in French: Amos Oz: Les voix d’Isral, translated by Guy Seniak, Calmann-Lvy, Paris, 1983. The interview is on pages 79-91. Here again, Amos Oz does not mention the name of Sharon,
When Ariel Sharon visited an agricultural high school outside Beersheva in the final phase of his campaign to become Israel’s Prime Minister, he was met by 16-year-old Ilil Komey, whose father has suffered from shellshock in the wake of Israel’s illegal 1984 invasion of Lebanon. In a scene recorded by Israeli national television , Ms. Komey pointed her finger at Israel’s premier warhawk, and said: “I think you sent my father into Lebanon. Ariel Sharon, I accuse you of having made me suffer for 16 some odd years. I accuse you of having made my father suffer for over 16 years. I accuse you of a lot of things that made a lot of people suffer in this country. I don’t think that you can now be elected as prime minister.
BY ROHAN PEARCE The brutality of the Israeli government toward Palestinians should be no surprise to anyone aware of the background of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon was born in Kfar Mala in 1928 and joined the Haganah, a military organisation of the Yishuv (the Jewish community within Palestine before 1948) which fought in the war of liberation in 1948 the original Israeli dispossession of Palestinians. In 1953 he led Unit 101, a commando group which committed numerous atrocities one of the most notorious was the massacre of 69 civilians, including children, in the West Bank village of Qibya. Sharon commanded a paratroop brigade during the Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. In 1995, reports emerged of Israeli paratroopers having murdered 273 Egyptian prisoners of war during the Israeli invasion. Sharon was one of the commanding officers under Arye Biro, a company leader in the 890 paratroop battalion. Brio described the massacre of 49 prisoners by the battalion: We couldn’t take
In recent weeks, the world has witnessed the genocidal war that is being conducted by Israel against the Palestinian people. Since the current Intifadeh began, the recorded number of Palestinians killed is 500. While the actual toll is unknown, the number of casualties will continue to mount as Ariel Sharon persists with military attacks and massacres. While headlines are giving us a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, and minute-to-minute view of the devastation, few people understand or are being told about Ariel Sharon and his background. A brief historical overview of the man who is leading this war of extermination against the people of Palestine is revealing. On May 14, 2002, it will be 54 years since the establishment of the state of Israel, as a result of a United Nations resolution. Since May 14, 1948, more than 3 million Palestinians have been displaced from their lands. In one year, 1948, Israel occupied more than 57 % of the Palestinian homeland that was not part of a United Nations
