[Steve_Seattle]

"weaned at the hands of the Bush administration"

This sentence alone discredits the entire article. Sharon has been around for years, and it is laughable to characterize him as a creation of the Bush administration. His resurgence was made possible by the Arab rejection of the extraordinarily generous terms of the Barak/Clinton proposal two years ago. At that time, many moderate Israelis finally realized that there is no compromise with the current Arab leadership as represented by Arafat.