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Article: Who Is Ariel Sharon?("Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician")
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- National Review
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- September 16, 2002
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Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician, by Anita Miller, Jordan Miller, and Sigalit Zetouni (Academy Chicago, 400 pp., $30)
Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon has the looks of a Tyrannosaurus rex. And of course a baleful bloodthirsty monster is what Arabs generally think he is. He symbolizes everything they hate about Israel. Most days of the week, Yasser Arafat or his sidekicks bombard him with epithets like Nazi and racist and war criminal, and so do columnists and editorialists from Cairo to Riyadh to Baghdad, all of them naturally under government control. Western leftists demonize him in similar terms. The French left-wing paper Liberation lately published a ...