Ariel Sharon

Jason Linkins

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Says Zombie, Comatose Man Need To Team Up To Bring Peace To The Middle East

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, Yasser Arafat, Errors, Video, Middle-East, Pennsylvania, Regrets, Ariel Sharon, Joe Pitts, Politics News

Presented without comment, here is the report from the Philadelphia Inquirer: Replying to a Chester County constituent's email regarding Middle Eas...

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Ariel (Sharon), We Hardly Knew Ye

Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Palestine, Arabs, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Dov Weissglass, Israel, Ariel Sharon, World News
Dr. Charles G. Cogan

All Israeli withdrawals are unilateral; otherwise the Arabs would never agree with them. Thus it was with the unilateral withdrawal from Southern Leba...

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The Future of Jewish Leadership: Journalist vs. Politician

Dovid Efune | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Journalists, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Politician, Dovid Efune, New York, Moses Mendelssohn, Menachem Begin, Politicians, Politics, Lord Jonathan Sacks, Bret Stephens, Jewish Solutions, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, Jewish Leadership, Ari Goldman, Theodor Herzl, Ariel Sharon, Mike Huckabee, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Jewish Philanthropists, Arianna Huffington, Algemeiner, Media News
Dovid Efune

Last week I wrote about the need for renewed focus on Jewish solutions as opposed to Jewish problems. Addressing requests for more thoughts on this s...

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EXCERPT: Sharon: The Life Of A Leader

Gilad Sharon | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gilad Sharon, Ariel Sharon Poland, Religious-Books, Holocaust, Ariel Sharon, Ariel Sharon Biography, Life of Ariel Sharon, Ariel Sharon Warsaw Ghetto, Ariel Sharon Son Book, Israel, Religion News

Editor's note: Gilad Sharon is the youngest of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s three sons and was a confidant to his father. Sharon hol...

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Israeli Military 'Witheld Evidence,' Say Slain Gaza Activist's Family

The Guardian | Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Gaza Strip, Israeli Military, Gaza, Ariel Sharon, Rachel Corrie, George W. Bush, Rachel Corrie Killed, Israel, World News

The family of Rachel Corrie, the US activist killed in Gaza while protesting against house demolitions in 2003, on Monday claimed the Israeli military...

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Week In Review: Nov. 7 - Nov. 14 (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Islam, Obama Indonesia, Pakistan, Veterans Day, China, Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, Muslim, Armistice Day, Indonesia, Barack Obama, Gay Rights, Ariel Sharon, Slidepollajax, Israel, David Cameron, World News

The second week of November 2010 saw the return of some familiar faces. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was moved back to his Sycamore Ra...

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A New Paradigm for Middle East Peace

Steve Sheffey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, Judea and Samaria, George W. Bush, Israel, Palestinians, Obama, Middle East Peace, World News
Steve Sheffey

Twice in the last decade, Israel offered to cede nearly all of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians, only to be rebuffed. It's time for a new paradig...

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Emma Williams' Tale of Two Jerusalems

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Intifada, Palestine, Israel, Jerusalem, Memoir, Emma Williams, It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir, Ariel Sharon, Israelis Palestinians, Books News
Patricia DeGennaro

If you read one book on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, read this one. You get a good dose of the politics and history of the past and present, but woven through it all is the humanity of both Palestinians and Israelis.

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Ariel Sharon Home Return Planned Nearly 5 Years After Stroke

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Medicine, Stroke, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Medical, Ariel Sharon, Sheba Medical Center, Israel, Israeli Prime Minister, Sycamore Farm, World News

Nearly five years after he suffered a near-fatal stroke, former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon may finally be returned from the hospital to be cared for...

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PHOTOS: Controversial Ariel Sharon Sculpture Set For Debut

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Noam Braslavsky, Israeli Politics, Israeli Artist, Middle East, Ariel Sharon Sculpture, Ariel Sharon, Israeli Art, Israel, Kishon Art Gallery, World News

Though he remains in a coma following a massive 2006 stroke, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon continues to court controversy. Only this time...

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Artist Depicts Assassination Of Bush, The Queen, Sparks Controversy

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brazilian Artist, Gil Vicente, George W. Bush, Ariel Sharon, President Bush, Brazil, Sao Paulo Biennial, Queen Elizabeth II, Pope Benedict XVI, Assassination, The Pope, World News

The Sao Paulo Art Biennial may be renowned for celebrating the best of Brazil's avant garde, but international critics say one of this year's featured...

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Breaking Israel to Fix It -- Rightists Rethink Holding the West Bank

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Haaretz, Gaza, West Bank, Benjamin Netanyahu, Charles Krauthammer, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Palestine, Bradley Burston, Likud, Barack Obama, World News
Bradley Burston

Of late, figures of significance on the right of both the Israeli and American Jewish communities have begun to rethink the future of the settlers' core redoubt: the West Bank.

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The Art of Talking Middle East Peace with a Forked Tongue

Rizwan A. Rahmani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza Blockade, Oslo Accord, Ariel Sharon, Hamas Fatah, Middle East, Ehud Barak, Israel, Palestine, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Middle East Peace, World News
Rizwan A. Rahmani

If you believe the media, great strides are being made in the direction of Middle East peace, and the prospects are hopeful. Personally, I am not as hopeful

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Noam Chomsky on Israel

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, Jews, Anwar Sadat, President Obama, Noam Chomsky, Pakistan, Palestine, Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zones, Lebanon, Hamas, Hezbollah, Jewish-Americans, Palestinians, West Bank, Yitzhak Rabin, Two-State Settlement, Ezer Weizman, Gaza Strip, Israel Expansion, Jewish, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Camp David Settlement, World News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

"The attitude towards Israel on the part of the intellectual community changed very sharply in 1967, from either lack of interest or sometimes even disdain, to almost passionate support. So what happened?"

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Responding to the New York Times on Israel

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, France, Ehud Olmert, Hezbollah, Obama Administration, Ehud Barak, Iran, Hamas, Nicolas Sarkozy, Palestinian Authority, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Ariel Sharon, Scotland, Benjamin Netanyahu, NY Times, Israel, China, Syria, World News
David Harris

A recent editorial in the Times was a bare-knuckled assault on Israel that will bring joy to Israel's critics. But it did a disservice to the realities on the ground.

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Peacemaking Demands Peacemakers

Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Edgar Bronfman, West Bank, Ariel Sharon, Fatah, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Two-State Solution, Israel, Peace, World News
Edgar M. Bronfman

For the Palestinians, there is still no real leadership, no one who speaks for all of them, and no one who can get them the state they so desperately want. This must change.

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The Cruel Dilemma Facing the Jews of Israel

Mort Zuckerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Gaza, Mort Zuckerman, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two-State Solution, World News
Mort Zuckerman

The progress being made by the Palestinians, in terms of controlling the terrorists and criminal gangs, is one of the most promising developments to have occurred in decades.

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Following in Rabin's Footsteps Toward Peace

Asaf Shariv | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yasser Arafat, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin Assassination, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Jerusalem, World News
Asaf Shariv

Peace in the Mideast can be a reality. It's one that the late-Prime Minister Rabin sacrificed his life to achieve, and toward which every single Israeli Prime Minister thereafter has worked.

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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Ariel Sharon Park: Israel's Largest Garbage Dump To Be Redeveloped -- And Renamed

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Israel, Ariel Sharon, Foreign Affairs, Ariel Sharon Park, Advocacy, World News

A bloated, stinking mass that everyone would have preferred not to have to see, but which nonetheless was thrust upon them. A sight that shamed the pe...

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Tough Love for Israel

Murray Fromson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Murray Fromson

Obama told the leaders of Hamas that they must recognize Israel's legitimacy as a precondition for peace. That's tough medicine for the Palestinians to swallow and even tougher for Netanyahu to believe.

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Tzipi Livni, Prime Minister?

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Kadima Party, Israel Elections, Tzipi Livni, Ariel Sharon, Binyamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister of Israel, Two-State Solution, Hamas, Israel, Mossad Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tzipi Livni Prime Minister, World News

Israel's new coalition government will be led by Kadima's Tzipi Livni or Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu. Tzipi Livni is the foreign minister of Israel. ...

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Israel's Suicide Mission?

Melissa Rossi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fatah, Tzipi Livni, Israel, Suicide Bombers, Hamas, Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Ariel Sharon, Gaza Bombing, World News
Melissa Rossi

As Israel's punishing bombardment of the prison that is Gaza - the Palestinian territory of 1.4 million which it has had walled off and strangled fo...

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Denouncing Islamic Terrorism Does Not Undermine Just Causes

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Terrorism, Sept. 11, Pakistan, 9/11, Asif Ali Zardari, Palestine, Palestinians, Marriott Bombing, Benzait Bhutto, Muslims, 2001, Ariel Sharon, Israel, President Bush, Pakistan Bombing, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Headlines in newspapers across the Arab and Islamic World proclaimed that the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad was a "warning" to Pakistan's...

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Olmert's Political Turmoil Could be Chance for Peace

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Mahmoud Abbas, Bill Clinton, Ehud Olmert, Palestinian President, Terrorism, Palestine, Hamas, Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister, Israel, Chance for Peace, Peace Accord, Extremism, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Olmert could not be more disliked than he already is. But in one quick move to strike a real deal with Abbas and the Palestinians on a peace accord, he could redeem himself.

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