|
|
Article: Israel' necessary man: the one and only Sharon.(THE MIDDLE EAST)(Biography)
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- January 30, 2006
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
ARIEL SHARON was the man other Israelis always relied on to do the heavy work, which they knew might well turn into dirty work. A minority admired him without reserve for his daring and ability. The majority were usually critical and dismissive. They were sophisticated, were they not, cool, go-getters, part of the Ph.D. crowd homing in on the American campus, people with universal values superior to crude nationalism, and in their view Israelis and Palestinians had only to sit down together and the brotherhood of man would spring up of its own accord.
Sharon knew otherwise in his bones. Born in British-mandated Palestine, he grew up at a distance from Hitler and ...