Article: PORTRAIT OF A KILLER.(Ariel Sharon)

THE NEW ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER HAS A BRUTAL HISTORY.

The appointment of Ariel Sharon as Israel's Foreign Minister will have dismayed many Israelis as well as Palestinians, but it is scarcely the first time that someone with a marked propensity for killing civilians has risen to one of the highest positions in the Israeli government. Two of Israel's recent Prime Ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Menahem Begin, also fell into this category. They were jointly responsible for the massacre of more than 250 Palestinians in the village of Deir Yassin in April 1948. It was not the only massacre of Palestinians that year but it was a particularly brutal one, with women and ...

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