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“... agree with you completely, Mr President’ or ‘I couldn’t agree more.’ On 15 October, Ariel Sharon, the general in charge of the IDF’s Southern Command, ordered his troops to cross to the west bank of the Suez Canal. To Nixon’s ludicrous observation that the event was ‘not that big … I think it’s a stalemate, I really ...”

“... and choosing to have little access to television, radio and the internet.As finance minister under Ariel Sharon (2003-5) and as prime minister (2009-20, or, if the latest polls are to be believed, until the end of time), Netanyahu has pursued the cause of privatisation and neoliberal economics while neglecting basic services and investment in public ...”

“... politically different from Netanyahu, Lieberman, Yachimovich, Livni, Mofaz, Olmert, Barak (or Sharon, if he ever wakes up). In the vision of the ‘peace agreement’ they share, next to a sovereign, nuclear, powerful Israel that stretches over almost 80 per cent of historical Palestine, a demilitarised, hollowed out, no-airport, no-port, no-borders, no ...”

“... are threatened, more roads are built, more land is expropriated. A few days after my arrival, Ariel Sharon urged the settlers to take as many hills as they could, as soon as they could. The next morning on the West Bank my Jerusalem taxi driver pointed out a new settlement consisting of half a dozen caravans parked on a hill just outside the ...”

“... After the breakdown of the talks, another round of violence was inevitable. On 28 September 2000, Ariel Sharon, the leader of the opposition, sparked it off by his ostentatious visit to Temple Mount. Surrounded by a phalanx of security men, he claimed he was going to deliver what he called ‘a message of peace’. To the other side, the message that ...”

“... much longer. Tariffs on steel and lumber, massive agricultural subsidies, and staunch support for Ariel Sharon are all directed at maintaining support for Bush’s allies in the swing states of Florida, Ohio and the Mid-West, with little regard for the global consequences. But even then, the prospects are not good. The economy has been weakening ever ...”

“... war’. In 2001 victims of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre lodged a criminal complaint against Ariel Sharon in a Belgian court. In 2008 a Spanish judge opened a criminal investigation into several Israeli leaders, including the former defence minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Gaza in 2002 that also killed 14 ...”

“... of reprisals. This unit was commanded by an unusually aggressive and devious young major named Ariel Sharon. Sharon and his men blew up 45 houses and killed 69 Jordanians, the majority of them women and children. Sharon was apparently well pleased with the operation, which in some ...”

“... were provided by the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Washington.]On 29 September, the day after Ariel Sharon, guarded by about a thousand Israeli police and soldiers strode into Jerusalem’s Haram al-Sharif (the ‘Noble Sanctuary’) in a gesture designed to assert his right as an Israeli to visit the Muslim holy place, a conflagration started which ...”

“... short history, when Israel began to build beyond its borders, security was again a justification. Ariel Sharon, head of the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Settlements and a future ‘architect’, said in 1977 that ‘a thin line of settlements along the Jordan would not provide a viable defence … The vital strategic issue was how to give depth to ...”

“... and Moshe Dayan, was immediate. A military detachment was sent under the command of the young Ariel Sharon on the night of 14-15 October. Forty-five houses in Kibbya were blown up and 60 villagers (most of them women and children) killed. The international outrage directed at the young, quite popular state was unprecedented. It was followed by the ...”

“... shortcomings of the Phalange. The fateful alliance received its most powerful boost, however, when Ariel Sharon, the fiercely aggressive advocate of Greater Israel, succeeded Ezer Weizman as Defence Minister in Menachem Begin’s second Likud government and vowed to ‘solve the problem of Lebanon once and for all’. Banking on the Christians in his ...”

“... at crucial intervals from the time of the British conquest to the era of Saddam Hussein and Ariel Sharon. Iraq remained loyal for the duration of the Second World War. In the Cold War, it was asked to join a regional anti-Communist alliance modelled on Nato, to be called the Baghdad Pact. The Iraqis had already struggled with the idea that ...”

“... can’t have an Israeli policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here.’ Or as Ariel Sharon once told an American audience, ‘when people ask me how they can help Israel, I tell them: “Help AIPAC.”’ Thanks in part to the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections, the Lobby also has significant leverage over the ...”

“... Their lives are as much a part of the history of Palestine/ Israel as the military dynamism of Ariel Sharon, who oversaw those massacres. Post-Zionist historians have transformed what was a dispute between Arabs and Israelis over what happened (and is happening) between them into what Meyrav Wurmser, a hostile Israeli critic of the ...”