Henry Imler January 5th, 2006

Mere Rhetoric: Disaster Updates:

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22: Terrible news is tempering the euphoria of a couple minutes that
Sharon would likely live. Half of Sharon’s body is paralyzed, he is
having trouble speaking, and the prognosis for a full recovery is very
poor.

For More on the Situation:
Sharon’s Political Career Over, Likely Caused by Poor Medical Judgment

A Tidbit from LGF:

The leader of the PFLP, currently hiding from justice in Syria, calls Ariel Sharon’s cerebral hemorrhage a gift from God.

Pan-Arab satellite television broadcasters beamed out
largely straightforward, nonstop live coverage early Thursday from
outside the hospital where Prime Minister Ariel Sharon struggled for
his life.

But a radical Palestinian leader in Damascus, the Syrian capital, called Sharon’s health crisis a gift from God.

“We say it frankly that God is great and is able to exact revenge on
this butcher. … We thank God for this gift he presented to us on this
new year,” Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Syrian-backed faction Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a small radical
group, told the Associated Press.

I must admit that I had mixed feeling when Arafat went under. While
a man was dying, I felt like Israel and the Palestinians were much
closer to finding real peace and it made me glad. With the perceptions
that many Palestinians and other Arabs have of the Israeli Prime
Minister, one should not be surprised or hold with too much suspicion
or judgment their reaction to the situation.

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