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When the Oslo process began in 1993, one benefit its adherents promised was a significant improvement in Israel’s international standing. And initially, it seemed as if that promise would be kept: 37 countries soon established or renewed diplomatic relations with Israel; a peace treaty was signed with Jordan; five other Arab states opened lower-level relations. But 16 years later, it is clear that this initial boost was illusory. Not only is Israel’s standing no better than it was prior to the famous handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat on the White House Lawn in September 1993, it has fallen...

Sunday's confrontation between an armed Hamas cell and Palestinian Authority policemen in Kalkilya shows that the Islamic movement still has a military presence in the West Bank - one that it is hoping to use to topple Mahmoud Abbas's regime there. PA security officials said the two Hamas operatives who were killed in the clash, Muhammad Samman and Muhammad Yassin, headed a cell that possessed large amounts of weapons, including explosives and automatic rifles, some of which had been hidden in a basement of a mosque in the city. The weapons, according to the officials, were supposed to be used...

"Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don’t like that."

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon spoke to his nation the night after Israeli soldiers began removing settlements from the Gaza Strip and implementing their prime minister’s historic Disengagement Plan in 2005. “The world awaits the Palestinian response – a hand offered in peace or continued terrorist fire,” he told his countrymen and the world at large. “To a hand offered in peace, we will respond with an olive branch. But if they choose fire, we will respond with fire, more severe than ever.” This is the context from which the world should view the heinous upswing in terror being...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains comatose and attached to a respirator nearly two years after a devastating stroke, a spokesman for Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv said Sunday. "There is no change in his condition," hospital spokesman David Weinberg said. Sharon, 79, was transferred to Sheba's long-term respiratory rehabilitation unit in July 2006 from Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, which treated him after his stroke in January of that year. Since Sharon's stroke, he has undergone three brain operations, abdominal surgery and three minor surgical procedures. Under established Jewish legal codes, it is forbidden to do anything to...

Last January, when the deal was first broached, the Bush administration stepped in and obtained a promise from president Vladimir Putin to call off the sale, as did Israel's Ariel Sharon during the Russian president's visit in May. Putin has broken those pledges. For a speedy delivery in the first quarter of 2006, the Syrians paid cash. The United States and NATO have code-named the Iskander missile SS-26 "Stone." They have nothing in their missile arsenal to match its unique attributes...

Click the link to watch a very strange video of Sharon Stone. She talks about "naughty, nasty little Germans" at an auction in Berlin. She's clearly under the influence of some kind of substance.

LOCAL NEWS SHARON - As he awaits a deportation hearing, Imam Muhammad Masood has been buoyed by support from Christian and Jewish clergy. During a 90-minute meeting with the imam on Wednesday, seven rabbis, Protestant pastors and a representative from the local Roman Catholic parish pledged a variety of help for the Sharon mosque’s former spiritual director - snip The deportation case is based on the denial of the 2001 application for a religious-worker visa, and on his alleged failure to return to Pakistan in 1991, as required by a student visa he used to enroll at Boston University in...

For the love of Sharon.My wife of 36 years passed away peacefully on January 14, 2007.  She was finally freed from the devastation caused by the horrible disease of Mytonic Dystrophy (Steinhart's disease) that started to disable her over 22 years ago.Upon her death, I wrote an old girlfriend of over 40 years ago who changed my life forever and taught me the difference between what we call now days as "love" and the real reason we choose a mate for life.  It's a shame that today's society thinks the marriage vow is simply a part of the show and...

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon told President George W. Bush ahead of the US-led invasion of Iraq of the dangers Saddam Hussein posed for the region, but also warned him that the Arab world would not be receptive to democracy, former ambassador to the US Danny Ayalon told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Ayalon, who sat in on numerous Bush-Sharon meetings, said the US and Israel held close consultations during the run-up to the war, but that Sharon was very careful not to advocate any particular American action. Ayalon said he served as "Sharon's watchdog," ensuring that when officials from...

Lebanon - Islamists "Palestinians" massacre of Christians in Damour that brought Christian Arabs killing "Palestinians" in Sabra Shatila You might have only heared about the massacre at Sabra Shatila through a pro "Palestinian" propagandist that have one, and nothing but one issue, no, nothing that has to with justice whatsoever, but to persecute Israel and denegrate it. It is only natural that they blame ANYTHING on the Zionists, even though the only connection to the case where Arab christians killed the Arab Palestinians in Sabra Shatila is the "charge" that Sharon did not prevent the Arab Christians from doing that......

Excerpt - Former prime minister Ariel Sharon, who suffered a stroke in January and has been in a coma since, was moved to an intensive care unit on Friday after a worsening in his condition, the hospital treating him said. "Sharon contracted an infection that is affecting his heart and will receive intensive treatment to combat the infection," the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv said in a statement. "At this point, his condition is stable." ~ snip ~

Why did Condoleezza Rice visit the region this week? No secretary of state likes to shuttle around with no obvious result. But she could not help herself. The pull was too great. Welcome to Coalition Buildup III. The simple rule is this: Every time the White House decides to confront a rogue regime, the State Department decides it's time to build a coalition. Coalition Buildup I began immediately after 9/11. The Taliban regime in Afghanistan had to go. Though the US did not feel a need for explicit UN authorization, it needed neighboring states to host US forces, and others...

Ariel Sharon’s pneumonia has improved and he has been taken out of intensive care, but is still in serious condition, a hospital spokesman said in Israel today. The former Israeli prime minister, 78, has been in a coma since he suffered the second of two strokes on January 4. He has since undergone several extensive brain operations to stop cerebral haemorrhaging, in addition to other relatively minor procedures. Sharon was transferred back to the respiratory rehabilitation department at Tel Aviv’s Chaim Sheba Medical Center today since there had been a “noticeable improvement in his kidney function and the pneumonia in...

ERUSALEM-- Ariel Sharon's pneumonia is less severe, and he has been taken out of intensive care but is still in serious condition, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday. The former prime minister, 78, has been in a coma since he suffered the second of two strokes on Jan. 4. He has undergone extensive surgery to stop cerebral bleeding, in addition to other relatively minor procedures. Sharon was transferred back to the respiratory rehabilitation department at Tel Aviv's Chaim Sheba Medical Center Tuesday since there has been a "noticeable improvement in his kidney function and the pneumonia in his lungs," spokesman David...

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The open wound of Gush Katif By Nadav Shragai Last Friday when Makor Rishon's photographer, Miri Tzahi, saw the photo of First Lieutenant Amihai Merhavia, who was killed in the battle of Bint Jbail, it jogged something in her journalist's memory. She thought she had seen this face before. Tzahi, who is about publish the album, "Katif - Nine days in Av," featuring hundreds of photos of the "days of the expulsion," searched through her computer archive and found a series of photos from around four years ago, showing Merhavia during the violent evacuation of Havat Gilad (Gilad Farm) in...

When they first met as United States president and Israeli prime minister, George W. Bush made clear to Ariel Sharon he would not follow in the footsteps of his father. The first President Bush had been tough on Israel, especially the Israeli settlements in occupied lands that Mr. Sharon had helped develop. But over tea in the Oval Office that day in March 2001 — six months before the Sept. 11 attacks tightened their bond — the new president signaled a strong predisposition to support Israel. “He told Sharon in that first meeting that I’ll use force to protect Israel,...

JERUSALEM (AP) A hospital spokeswoman says former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been rushed to the emergency room.

While Sharon Lies Sleeping It may be nearly time to say good-bye to a fallen leader. Reports indicate that Ariel Sharon now suffers from kidney failure. This may be the problem that brings about his long delayed death. Ariel means Lion of God in Hebrew. Indeed he was something like a lion, participating boldly and strikingly as a warrior, helping to bring Israel to victory time and again, fighting against what seemed to be all odds…at least from a humanly-derived perspective. But his last name has a meaning, too. Sharon is an area of fruitful land in Israel. Something to...

Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's medical condition has deteriorated over the past few days. His kidney function has declined, causing fluid to accumulate in his body, and he may soon be permanently hooked up to a dialysis machine that will regulate this situation. Medical examinations have also showed changes in Sharon's brain tissue, and his doctors fear that he may be harboring an infection. According to a senior physician, whose assessment is based on the information released on Sunday by Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer: "Sharon is facing a serious threat to his life, and if he is not...

People have very short memories. Most Israelis do not even recall the events that have led up to the rain of Katyushas and other missiles on Israeli civilians this past week. In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon after a long wave of terror attacks on Israel. At first, the announced Israeli goal was to advance 40 kilometers inside Lebanon and drive all the rocket shooters from range of Israel. The operation, called "Peace for Galilee", enjoyed over 90% support from the Israeli public, including Israeli Arabs. The army actually advanced more than 40 kilometers. It eventually took most of Beirut and...

The next Middle East war--Israel against genocidal Islamism--has begun. The first stage of the war started two weeks ago, with the Israeli incursion into Gaza in response to the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier and the ongoing shelling of Israeli towns and kibbutzim; now, with Hezbollah's latest attack, the war has spread to southern Lebanon. Ultimately, though, Israel's antagonists won't be Hamas and Hezbollah but their patrons, Iran and Syria. The war will go on for months, perhaps several years. There may be lulls in the fighting, perhaps even temporary agreements and prisoner exchanges. But those periods of calm will...

Former Chief of Staff: Sharon's Disengagement a Disaster 15:56 Jul 06, '06 / 10 Tammuz 5766 by Ezra HaLevi Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Moshe Yaalon, IDF Chief of Staff until the implementation of the Gaza withdrawal, said Thursday that the entire Disengagement was conceived to save PM Sharon from legal troubles. “The Disengagement was not the result of thorough strategic analysis but the result of [then-prime minister, Ariel Sharon’s] political distress," Yaalon said in an interview to be published in full by Haaretz this weekend. “It was a disengagement from reality and a disengagement from the truth." Though such a claim...

As Joe Lieberman was criss-crossing Connecticut last Friday, picking up endorsements from labor unions and being greeted with applause at diners, it seemed like nothing had changed for a man who has long been one of the state's most popular politicians. Then, in the small town of East Lyme, Joe Barry, a retired Vietnam veteran and local Democrat, literally got in Lieberman's face. "Senator, that was the plan, to get rid of Saddam," Barry said, sitting with about 12 people in a senior center that Lieberman had stopped at. "We got rid of Saddam, now let's get out of there....

Sharon Stone Blasts Bush on AIDS Sharon Stone took no prisoners Thursday night in her opening remarks at the annual Cinema Against AIDS dinner in Cannes. Speaking before several hundred of the wealthiest people in the world, Stone — a vision in white linen with a Medusa’s nest of blond hair extensions — opened the 25th annual AmFar dinner with a thunderbolt against President Bush. “Our president has spent $167 million on abstinence programs,” she said. “And zero dollars on sex education. Zero dollars on teaching about safe sex.” Her remarks, part of an impassioned plea, were met with thunderous...

Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem on Thursday night confirmed reports that former prime minister Ariel Sharon will be transferred to Sheba Medical Center, the Tel Hashomer hospital, early next week. The spokeswomen of both Hadassah, where Sharon has been treated since January 4, and Sheba had previously refused to say officially if Sharon, still in a deep coma, would be moved to Sheba. The transfer is expected to be a high-security logistical operation. Before the rumors of the transfer were confirmed, Dr. Arie Wollner, head of Sheba's 18-bed, state-of-the-art respiratory care and rehabilitation department, was permitted to describe the "unique...

The sordid tale now making the rounds in the "mainstream" press of a rogue Pentagon intelligence operation has all the elements of an urban legend: heavy breathing, a secret basement office "down by the ramp" and government officials who form a hidden alliance based on long-ago ties to an obscure but influential university guru. Only the work of a few good men with the courage to face up to this "cabal" - and a few crusader-journalists to help them - can make the demons scatter and scare the dark ones into the light. Or so the story goes on those...

Sources: U.S. won't view pullout line as final Israel-PA border WASHINGTON - The United States will not recognize a border created after a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank as Israel's permanent frontier, senior U.S. administration members said in unofficial conversations. Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is due to arrive in the U.S. capital during the third week of May, has not presented the administration with a detailed plan for the second withdrawal he promised voters, and sources in the administration say discussion of this is at a very preliminary stage. However, a number of sources said unofficially that...

...E-Mail the AuthorUniting the conservative movement Posted: April 21, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Let's be honest with each other, shall we? Brothers and sisters in arms within the conservative movement are dealing body blows to each other, and the four-decade surge conservatism had enjoyed is now suffering accordingly. Until recently, the raucous sibling factions held their tongues and kept their political differences largely under wraps. But the disputes between the various factions of the conservative movement are becoming increasingly more public and counterproductive. Sparring within a family isn't always a bad thing. In my own family, my...

Channel 2 television reported Thursday evening that disabled Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is like a vegetable and soon will be moved to Tel HaShomer Hospital in Tel Aviv and then to his Negev Sycamore Ranch home. The television news program also stated that doctors have admitted they gave Sharon an excessive does of blood thinner.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli government has declared Ariel Sharon permanently incapacitated.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Doctors reattached a piece of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's skull on Wednesday, a day after the surgery was delayed because of a respiratory infection, hospital officials said. The operation was the eighth for Sharon since he suffered a debilitating stroke on January 4. Doctors had removed the piece of skull during a previous operation on his brain. "The surgery that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was supposed to have yesterday took place today and ended successfully a short while ago," Hadassah Hospital said in a statement. Sharon was taken back to his room in the intensive care unit,...

When being anti-Israel is anti-Semitic Bernard Pinsky There has been much discussion and finger pointing about criticism of Israel, its actions and its policies, and Israel's defenders' claims that much of the criticism is based on anti-Semitism. Critics of Israel say they cannot speak out for fear of being labeled anti-Semitic. Defenders of Israel are concerned that anti-Semitism is the basis for the criticism in many cases. It is therefore important to know when in fact anti-Israel rhetoric is founded in, results from or itself creates anti-Semitism. 1. When the media prints every allegation against Israel, no matter how...

Skull Surgery For Sharon Updated: 19:56, Monday April 03, 2006 Comatose Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be going in to surgery to restore his skull, it has been announced.More follows...

Tuesday, March 28, Israelis headed to the polls to choose their newest Prime Minister. As I write this, there is just one hour left before polls close. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to win, and a low voter turnout demonstrates that few Israelis anticipate any other outcome. Yet, a great deal is at stake in this election as the three candidates have very different ideas about matters vital to Israeli security. The Labour Party leader, Amir Peretz is willing to offer huge concessions to the Palestinians for peace, but under Arafat that approach failed, and seems even more...

Excerpt - Exit polls released as polls closed at 10 P.M. Tuesday showed Kadima gaining from 29 to 32 seats, Labor from 20-22, and the Likud 11-12. ~ snip ~

ON March 28, Israelis will elect a new prime minister to replace the ailing Ariel Sharon. But I'd bet my last shekel that I'll continue to hear the phrase "Ariel Sharon's apartheid wall." It's a phrase spoken — make that spewed — on almost every university campus I visit in North America and Europe. Among a new generation of Muslims, this is what Mr. Sharon will be known for long after he leaves office: unilaterally erecting a barrier, most of it a fence, some of it a wall, that cuts Arab villages in half, chokes the movement of ordinary Palestinians,...

JERUSALEM — Ariel Sharon, comatose since suffering a massive stroke in January, will be moved to a long-term care facility after elections later this month, Israeli Channel 10 TV reported Friday. The Israeli prime minister will be moved to the Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv, Channel 10 said, quoting hospital officials. Doctors have said that every day Sharon, 78, fails to regain consciousness, his chances for recovery diminish. Sharon has had seven operations, including three brain surgeries, since the Jan. 4 stroke. But the popular leader stars in campaign ads for the Kadima party he founded just weeks before...

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the weekend newspapers that he plans within the next four years to "get to Israel's permanent borders, whereby we will completely separate from the majority of the Palestinian population and preserve a large and stable Jewish majority in Israel,” adding that he will build in the E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post Olmert presented his partial vision for Israel’s future borders, saying they will include Gush Etzion, the "Jerusalem envelope," Ma'aleh Adumim, the "Ariel region" and the Jordan River as a “security border.” The plan to...

Life is about giving credit where credit is due: Jewish right-wingers and centrists were wrong - and left-wingers right - about some things. That's as true for American Jews as it is for those in Israel. The American Jewish Left, like its Israeli counterparts, was right that Israel couldn't afford to ignore the demographic disaster that holding on to lands where millions of Palestinians lived represented. The Right never had a coherent answer to this challenge. The decision of Ariel Sharon to reverse course and withdraw from Gaza for reasons that had heretofore been the positions of his foes left...

JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon underwent a minor procedure Wednesday to have fluid removed from his stomach after a CT scan uncovered the problem, the hospital where he's being treated said. The prime minister has been hospitalized since Jan. 4 when he suffered a massive stroke that left him in a coma. Sharon remained in stable but serious condition Wednesday, Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital said in a statement. The procedure was the first since Sharon, 77, underwent emergency abdominal surgery Feb. 11 after an abdominal scan revealed dead tissue in his digestive system. Doctors removed 20 inches, or...

I was in Israel during the recent Palestinian election. Despite the sensational press coverage in this country and elsewhere, Israeli society seemed surprisingly unaffected by the Hamas victory. Sure, the elections were of great interest, and the results are of serious concern to everyone living in the region. There was also plenty of finger-pointing and Monday-morning quarterbacking about how a terrorist organization could be poised to take the helm of the Palestinian Authority. Nevertheless, Israelis seemed underwhelmed - as if the election results simply verified what they already knew: There is not a true partner for peace among the Palestinians...

The coma and the conspiracy theory By Bradley Burston Within minutes of Ariel Sharon having been rushed to an operating theater for emergency abdominal surgery on a Sabbath morning, the debate was not should he die in pain or live in agony, but rather When Olmert Will Let Him Die for Maximal Electoral Advantage. .... Sharon might well not emerge alive - offered a variety of dates for a state funeral, for maximum pro-Kadima effect. One poster said that Kadima would deliberately keep Sharon in his vegetative state until a few days before the election - to minimize the "staleness"...

Forget monitoring vital signs. Monitor talkbacks. The moment that Ariel Sharon takes a turn for the worse, the messages flood in. Thankfully, the great majority are wishes that he might not suffer, or prayers for a miracle recovery. It is a measure of the unbearable meanness of the Internet, however, that the first to arrive are almost always those who wish him ill, wish him hell, or alternatively, those who voice the hope that he will live on to suffer through endless rounds of new surgeries and unimaginable cutting-edge bio-tech tortures.

Disclaimer: Reading this following article can be dangerous to your health. People with a heart condition should not attempt to read it. Also do not attempt to drive or operate heavy machinery. Do NOT open windows, but rather us a bucket to vomit. Opening the window may result in jumping out of it after reading several passages. LONDON, July 15 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Following the attack by U.S. author Gore Vidal on U.S. President George W. Bush’s so-called war on terror, John Pilger launched yet another attack in his book ‘The New Rulers of the World.’ “The rulers...

JERUSALEM (AP) - 0211dv-sharon-update Doctors removed nearly 2 feet of Ariel Sharon's large intestines Saturday during emergency surgery, his seventh operation since suffering a debilitating stroke last month. Surgeons managed to stabilize the comatose Israeli prime minister after initially fearing for his life, but the latest complication makes it even more unlikely he will recover. The hospital said Sunday he remained in critical but stable condition, as he has throughout the past five weeks. Israelis closely followed their 77-year-old leader's latest ordeal, with TV stations repeatedly breaking into regular programming for updates, but the country already has come to terms...

Israel: Ariel Sharon Near DeathBy Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyUPDATE 17:20: Four hour emergency operation on Prime Minister's Sharon was successful. Fifty centimeters of Sharon's upper intestine was removed. Doctors say that the major problem remains Sharon's lack of consciousness. Sharon, who entered surgery in critical condition, is now in stable but serious condition. Jerusalem-----February 11.......Israel has been praying for a miracle. For Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to wake up from a stroke induced coma, smile and tell us that we should not be worrying about his health. But on this sunny and cold day in Jerusalem, the news is...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, incapacitated by a stroke on January 4, was undergoing emergency surgery for digestive complications on Saturday and a hospital source said he was likely to die by the end of the day. "We expect him to die today," said the source, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media on behalf of Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital. Earlier, hospital spokesman Ron Krumer said a CT scan had revealed "serious damage to the prime minister's digestive system" and he was being taken for emergency surgery. Yael Bosem-Levy,...

Doctors do not expect Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, incapacitated by a stroke he suffered last month, to survive an emergency operation on Saturday, a hospital source said. "We expect him to die today," said the source, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the