Shas leader: Sharon is evil, will be struck and die
By: Haaretz
Published: March 9, 2005

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on Tuesday called Prime Minister Ariel Sharon “evil” due to his disengagement plan, and said “God will strike him with one blow and he will die, he will sleep and not awake.”

In a pre-Purim sermon in a Jerusalem synagogue, the rabbi expressed fierce opposition to Sharon and the disengagment plan, adding, “What a cruel and evil man does such things.”

Sources from the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party said Wednesday that the rabbi does not wish Sharon’s death, but rather that the disengagement plan die.

Rabbi Yosef: PM is evil, ‘will be struck and die’ – (Haaretz) 03.9.2005

Fast forward to the Oslo Accords where the world finally learned and recognized that the true peace maker was Arafat, a remarkable progressive who disproved the notion that Islam cannot and will not tolerate alternate lifestyles.

Finally, Barak offered in 2000 to give the Palestinians the entire state of Israel and to murder every first born male joo. The Palestinians once and for all proved Islamic intellectual/moral supremacy by rejecting the Barak offer and beginning the next Intifada.

The problem is obvious… and so is the solution. Saint Rachel proved that.

Did I say joo boy huckster? I meant Zionist huckster.

“Did you hear?” she asked. “Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke! They don’t think he’s going to make it.”

I eased back into my chair, put my Birkenstocks up onto my desk, and grinned with delight.

At last, the murderous Grand Poobah of the International Zionist PNAC Neo-Con Cabal that put Bush into office was getting his just desserts. The puppet master pulling the strings of every right-wing spook group from Skull & Bones on down to the Cub Scouts; who plowed over little girls with bulldozers, fired guided missiles at helpless old men in wheelchairs, and made Cindy Sheehan cry, was mere hours from his final reward. And I couldn’t be happier.

Ariel Sharon has been an obstacle to Middle East peace ever since President Bill Clinton mapped out exactly how it could be achieved. With Nobel Laureate Yassir Arafat representing the indigenous Palestinian peoples, Sharon was given a rare opportunity to find common ground with the PLO and reach some sort of compromise. Instead, he embarked on a brutal campaign of self-defense and pre-emptive attacks against every innocent civilian in a C4 tuxedo. Rather than opening his heart, buses, delis, and discos to peace-loving Palestinians, he built walls between Israel and her neighbors both figuratively and literally. Even his half-assed withdrawal from the Gaza Strip came only near the end of his barbaric reign, and with the unrealistic insistence on a Jewish right to live and breath air.

Yassir Arafat went to his grave never realizing his dream of a Palestine free of violence, bloodshed, and Jews. Now Ariel Sharon is tasting the bitter fruits of his violent, warmongering past. Karma, it seems, has finally caught up with the evil bastard.

“It’s about time,” I told my worker with a chuckle. “As far as I’m concerned, he’s finally getting what’s been coming to him for years, and I’m sure there’s a nice, toasty spot in Hell reserved especially for him.”

“Funny,” she replied. “That’s pretty much the same thing Pat Robertson said.”

“WHAT?” I sprang from my chair and threw my hand-crocheted hemp rasta hat down with rage. “THAT CRUEL, FUNDAMENTALIST MONSTER! Doesn’t he have any compassion for a poor, dying man who took such courageous steps to bring peace to the Middle East?”

It just goes to show how consumed by hatred the evangelical zealots of the American Taliban are.

however, i am an optimist and a pragmatist. despite my disappointment with the achievements of peres, barak et al., sharon actually surprised me (and a lot of us) in spite of ourselves, breaking the deadlock that the ghastly bibi had got the “peace process” into and, in the teeth of incitement, sedition and unbelievable political pressure, getting the disengagement through and creating a new middle ground. it is my hope that the kadima party will prosper after he is gone, as polling for haaretz fortunately seems to indicate (see http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/666984.html). there is little alternative. netanyahu is a fool and a liar (although has been an effective finance minister, it’s a good job for a bastard) and the one time i heard him speak (some imbecile let him on the platform at the trafalgar square solidarity rally) it chilled me to the marrow. he is in the pocket of the extremists and the settler lobby and has no backbone of his own – all he does is spout clichés to avoid change. peretz is basically a new boy – it has yet to be seen whether he is anything more than a moustache; although it is encouraging that a moroccan has managed to reach the head of the notoriously euro-chauvinist labour party. he doesn’t have the security credentials that are normally needed in israel for people to trust you – that was what worked for begin, rabin and sharon. on the other hand, the idea that you need to be a general to make it in israeli politics is long due for an overhaul (shaul mofaz take note).

if only arafat had been able to rise to the occasion as sharon did. my friend rania always says “he was a bastard, but he was our bastard”. well, sharon was our bastard, but finally he saw that what he wanted couldn’t be achieved by the settlement enterprise. as someone who knew him writes today, it wasn’t that he didn’t like arabs – he just didn’t believe them. the question has, for some time, been whether the PA can establish its authority and the rule of law rather than allowing its agenda to be dictated by the turf wars of militant thugs and the antics of self-obsessed middle-class do-gooders (see http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAEF8.htm ) the same can be said for the behaviour of sharon’s sons, although they are unlikely to be influential in the future – at least one of them will probably go to prison for his part in the scandal, but that’s really a side issue.

on a personal note, my father-in-law had a stroke this summer and has still not recovered; so i can say i really don’t think arik will ever be back to front-line politics, even if he survives. i astonished myself over the last few days by remembering the “old bulldozer” in my prayers – but he has at least deserved that merit by redeeming himself to some extent in his old age.

b’shalom

bananabrain

Some say “better the devil you know”. Sharon was called a butcher, bulldozer, terrosit, etc.. due to his activities. On the other hand, he pulled out of Gaza, but then pursued expansion into other areas while he was meant to be observing the ceasefire.

Interestingly, the clot was not discovered during his recent hospitalisation. What is even more interesting is that this incident occured just 1 day after Sharon was publically implicated in a bribery scandal! Far be it from me to stand in the way of a good conspiracy theory….

“A live Sharon will have to face prosecution for the Kern-Schlaff bribes, even in Israel’s thoroughly corrupt legal system. A dead Sharon will not have to face prosecution. And that would be just fine for the creme de la creme of the country’s political leadership.”

(referring to the death of Arafat)

The battle between terrorism and democracy seems both fascinating and frightening to me – and I don’t mean to imply that Palestinians are all terrorists or anything so crass.

If Sharon’s new Kadima party dies, Israeli politics will quite likely polarize between a Likud further to the right and a Labour to the left. Palestinian groups could then have quite an influence on which way the Israelis swing. A few suicide bombers could significantly effect Israeli voting patterns. I wonder what the bombers will want and whether the Israelis will be able to continue their recent path to the centre.

Regarding your post –#6, this is really getting old. Stop using my name and get a life. The forum leaders will delete you post so why bother. If you truly want to be heard, establish your own identity and continue to contribute to Pickled Politics.

Likewise, I wonder if there will be a raft of the disgusting and despicable personal attacks will accompany Sharon’s death, celebrating his death and willing him to hell, that was the case with Arafat’s death.

Your number of 1,000 is thought to be exaggerated by most people who study middle eastern events (save those who have a strong pro-palestinian bent). The real number was in the hundreds. Not that the lower number makes it OK. I hope you don’t feel I have personally attacked you, Paul. I’m sure you will be able to find some source that backs up your number. You and I will agree to disagree, perhaps.

BTW, I’ve lurked for a few months (and will return to lurking in all likelihood), but I’d like to say how informative this white lapsed catholic has found this site and the various commentors. Although I still retain a strong pro-Israel stance (which doesn’t mean I disagree with any of you on the ham-handedness of many of Israel’s policies), I have had my eyes opened to the logically thought through positions many of the Muslim commentors have made re: the confilct. My other exposure to the “Muslim or Palestinian” side of things have come rabid Jew haters who simply don’t recognize the right of Jews to exist in the Middle East except as Dhimmis (honest, here in Canada, the 2 Muslim’s I have spoken to on this subject expressed a desire to see any trace of Israel wiped off the map).

Anyway, thank you for the intelligent dialogue you encourage here. Even from Bikair whose ramblings further cement my unhealthy negative prejudices of all Muslims as being dangerous fanatics .