Posted on 01/11/2014 9:02:15 AM PST by robowombat
Ariel Sharon — the military hero and prime minister who was among the most controversial figures in the history of Israel — has died, eight years after the massive stroke that left him comatose. He was 85.
He died Saturday at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, outside of Tel Aviv, where he has been cared for since 2006.
Over his long career Sharon served as Israel's 11th prime minister, headed several ministries including Defense, and rose to the rank of general in the Israeli army, seeing action in all four of Israel's major wars.
Sharon was born on Feb. 26, 1928, in Kfar Malal, then in the British Mandate of Palestine.
In 1942, at the age of 14, Sharon joined the Gadna, a paramilitary youth battalion, and later the Haganah, an underground paramilitary force.
He was a platoon commander in the Israeli military at the outset of the 1948 War of Independence, and rose swiftly up the ranks during the war.
In the 1956 Suez War, Sharon commanded a paratrooper brigade, and he headed Israel's most powerful armored division as a major general in the 1967 Six-Day War. His actions on the Sinai front brought Sharon international commendation by military strategists.
Sharon retired from military service in 1973, but was called back to active duty at the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in October of that year.
Sharon's bold maneuver in crossing the Suez Canal and encircling Egypt's Third Army was considered the key to Israel's ultimate victory and led the Israeli public to nickname him "The King of Israel" and "The Lion of God."
Following the 1981 elections, he was appointed Minister of Defense, the post he held during the 1982 Lebanon War.
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I guess we might have skipped forward in the book to that point...but that would mean a lot of details have slipped by unnoticed.
Of course, I guess there is no reason we should have taken notice of those missed details...because it does indeed look like a final battle for the life of Israel is in the near future.
The last two hundred years the collectivists have been on the warpath preparing for their false messiah for ruling the globe.
It’s either Obama or someone he knows I bet!
Oh, there will be no comparison! Stories will include the term, 'controversial', which might have appeared in stories about Mandela. But most stories will certainly use the term ' brutal', which would NOT have appeared in any mainstream media story about Mandela, even though many of his followers used very brutal tactics against his enemies.
The MSM will trash Sharon, for having the audacity to try to protect Israel against annihilation by Arab forces, and the homicide bombers who were grown and nurtured in the camps in which they were raised, hearing nothing but hate for the Jews every day. Those camps were necessary because those same Arabs told them that the Jews would kill every Arab in the country, so they fled, but no Arab country would take them in.
Ariel Sharon is missed. Oh G-d, how he is missed! A true Lion of Judah.
:^(
I have thought for quite a while it might Obama in his pre-full-Satanic-investment(possession) state.
What better way to have the AC gain headway than to present him as a messiah to the Liberals and a bumbling idiot to conservative Christians and Jews.
And then at the right time, Satan (in some form or another) moves into little Barry and the game begins in earnest.
Bumbling Barry becomes something of a fully in-control Incredible Hulk, but with an intellect and cunning to match his physique.
Sharon one of the greatest military commanders ever, but it will all be ignored by the media, with the "Sabra and Shatilla massacre" fiction highlighted.
Barry does have an IQ of 138 according to intel sources I have heard speak.
I know the messiah.
It’s not been a “secret.”
Better late for the party, than not at all.
Rest in peace and condolences to his family and Israel.
I know Him too, and He will be back soon.
My concern as well, and I’m puzzled why you seem to be the only one to bring it up. It was very curious he was struck down when he was in the midst of said giveaways. Even the dissident party he formed when leaving Likud was named Kadima (”Forward”), a leftist mantra.
Possibly. More likely he will ask Malik Shabazz Zulu to attend for him. Sharon was one of them Jooos, you know.
Glad to see most here not spewing the Left’s views on Sharon.
I suspect Obama will have a flunky like Carney deliver a very brief, innocuous statement regretting the passing of Ariel Sharon at 85,but not much more. Some third-rate functionary will attend the funeral. Obama wouldn't be dream of going for fear of offending his Muslim buddies and leftist supporters who all view Israel as a 'cancer' on the Muslim world.
May God reward this great leader.
Is it a coincidence that he had that massive stroke six months after he gave orders for all Israelis to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip after he had given it to the Muslim?. Can anyone forget the tears of the IDF soldiers as they were forcing the Israelis from their homes and the evacuation of the Gaza Strip following Sharon’s orders?
That’s possible I guess.
So many politicians do a face/heel turn though, it’s just as likely he merely “(d)evolved in office” like the preponderance of them.
RIP.
Of course, he turned out to be the exact opposite. I'm glad that his "legacy" of creating Kadima has effectively disappeared. There was talk for a while that the party was doing well without Sharon at the helm and that Israel would become a three party system. Now Kadima is the smallest party in the Knesset and has a measly two seats. I guess voters just aren't too keen on electing a party that stands for nothing. Shocking, huh?
But lately I haven't been too keen on Likud, either. Some freeper told me they're actually ideologically like Clinton's 1992 era "New Democrats". Shame, Netanyahu sounds so good on TV!
Off topic, and possibly speaking ill of the dead, but its a good thing it's a Hebrew name because "Ariel Sharon" pretty much sounds like a female politician by American English standards. :-/
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