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Article: The end of an era.(Editorials)(Ariel Sharon's health crisis alters Israeli politics)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2006
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, summed it up in three words: "The Last Battle." The banner headline on Thursday's front-page story about Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's catastrophic second stroke made it clear that the extraordinary 77-year-old leader was clinging to life by the slenderest of strands. Barring a miracle, Sharon's courageous, combative, bullheaded, controversial and utterly transformative era at the helm of the Jewish state is over.
The great general, who may have saved Israel from certain defeat by finding a gap in the Egyptian lines and leading his armored division across the Suez Canal in the ...