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  Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister in a landslide election in February 2001, probably more as a protest against the lack of cohesive politics in Ehud Barak's government.
Sharon is reported to have told his Turkish ally, prime minister Bülent Ecevit, that the secret aim of his politics is to drive Arafat out of office.
Sharon's politics with Palestine has been on one hand to destroy the infrastructure of the Palestinian authorities, on the other hand to demand that Arafat manages to curb all opposition in Palestine.
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 Ariel Sharon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sharon was born Ariel Scheinermann to Shmuel and Dvora (formerly Vera) in Kfar Malal.
Sharon sent a small scout force, which was met with heavy fire and became bogged down due to vehicle malfunction in the middle of the pass.
Ariel Sharon was allegedly involved in the Greek island affair related to attempts by David Appel to purchase an island near the coast of Athens for the purpose of building a multimillion-dollar resort complex.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ariel_Sharon   (5130 words)

  
 The Corrs Online
Sharon is proud of the fact that she only ever missed one violin lesson in her whole life and today, she is qualified to teach the instrument professionally.
Sharon loves interacting with the crowd, and is often seen dancing and jigging around, waving to people or throwing her irresistible, warm, beautiful, and radiant smile.
Sharon, like every person that plays live, is not perfect and she does make mistakes, not very often, but when they do happen, and she maybe starts playing a little too early, she ends up giving herself, the rest of the band, and the crowd, a good laugh.
www.corrsonline.com /home/profiles/sharon.shtml   (1181 words)

  
 Ariel Sharon
Sharon was appointed commander of a Paratroop Corps in 1956 and fought in the Sinai Campaign.
Sharon resigned from the army in June 1972, but was recalled to active military service in the 1973 Yom Kippur War to command an armored division.
In 1996, Ariel Sharon was appointed Minister of National Infrastructure and was involved in fostering joint ventures with Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinians.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/sharon.html   (1439 words)

  
 Ariel Sharon
President George Bush acclaims Ariel Sharon as 'a man of peace', yet the blood that was shed at Sabra and Chatila remains a stain on the conscience of the Zionist nation.
In the end, Sharon got away with it, even when it was proved that he had, the night before the Phalangists attacked the civilians of the camp, publicly blamed the Palestinians for the murder of their leader, President-elect Bashir Gemayel.
Sharon was meeting with President George W Bush in Washington when a suicide bomber killed at least 15 Israeli civilians in a Tel Aviv nightclub; he broke off his visit and returned at once to Israel.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article11479.htm   (6493 words)

  
 Ariel Sharon -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sharon was born Ariel Scheinermann in 1928 to a German-Polish father and Russian mother in Kfar Malal village in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Sharon, whose forces were initially heading east, away from the pass, reported to his superiors that he was increasingly concerned with the possibility of an enemy thrust through the pass, which could attack his brigade from the flank or the rear.
Sharon was not only criticized by his superiors, he was damaged by revelations several years later by several former subordinates (one of IDF's first major revelations to the press), who claimed that Sharon tried to provoke the Egyptians and sent out the scouts in bad faith, ensuring that a battle would ensue.
www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=10208   (1621 words)

  
 MTV Onair - Osbournes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sharon refused to let anyone else raise her children and it wasn't uncommon for the back of the tour bus to be converted into a nursery.
Sharon and Ozzy's union has had its ups and downs, but after 21 years, their marriage is strong and has defied the myth that rock and roll marriages don't last.
Sharon Osbourne's philosophy is simple: "Live everyday to the fullest, and don't save for tomorrow what you can do today." She is honest and not afraid to talk about her own personal issues with weight, her plastic surgery, or her family.
www.mtv.com /onair/osbournes/hub_sharon2.jhtml   (916 words)

  
 The Electronic Intifada - For Reference: Key Figures - Ariel Sharon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ariel Sharon was born in Kfar Malal in 1928.
Ariel Sharon is responsible for the massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, on the southern outskirts of Beirut.
Sharon should be indicted for the crimes in which he bears responsibility as the first step in a process of accountability that will bring justice to his victims and their families.
electronicintifada.net /forreference/keyfigures/sharon.html   (3221 words)

  
 Sharon defends his decision - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday defended his decision to give up the Gaza Strip, saying that while the images of settlers being dragged out of their homes were ''heartbreaking,'' the pullout would make Israel more secure and help it hang on to large West Bank settlement blocs.
Sharon, once the most powerful patron of the Jewish settlement movement, told settlers their presence in Gaza, among some 1.3 million Palestinians, had not been in vain.
Sharon said he was moved by TV images of the Gaza pullout, and praised settlers and troops.
www.iht.com /articles/2005/08/17/africa/web.0817gazasharon.php   (472 words)

  
 Sharon Osbourne Official Site
Sharon’s autobiography, released in September 2005, was the voice of one of the most resilient and multi-faceted figureheads in the public consciousness.
The Sharon Osbourne the world now knows is the one made famous by TV, but it’s also the sum of many other parts, parts that were constructed on the shop floor of a music business that was in her very blood.
Sharon was 17 then, and their paths crossed off and on over the ensuing years, until she began managing Ozzy's career in 1979, after he’d been fired from Black Sabbath.
www.sharonosbourne.com   (664 words)

  
 MidEast Web - Biography - Ariel Sharon - Prime Minister of Israel
Ariel Sharon was elected to the Knesset in December 1973 on the right-wing
From 1990-1992, Sharon served as Minister of Construction and Housing and Chairman of the Ministerial Committee on Immigration and Absorption.
Sharon was able to form a close and effective alliance with the United States based on common interests in fighting terror and tacit Israeli support for the US war in Iraq.
www.mideastweb.org /bio-sharon.htm   (2155 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Extra
Sharon refused to meet with Arafat, and eventually mounted a counteroffensive that destroyed the terrorists' infrastructure and left Arafat isolated and besieged in his West Bank headquarters.
Sharon's positions was often merely a reflection of his ability to sense out the preferences of the Israeli mainstream.
Sharon was feted at the U.N. and lauded by many of his former European critics as a peacemaker and a statesman.
www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110007772   (1195 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Sharon: Pledge not to harm Arafat no longer applies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sharon also said Israel is no longer bound by a pledge to the United States not to harm Yasser Arafat, saying the Palestinian leader and the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, Hassan Nasrallah, are potential targets for assassination.
Sharon said the withdrawal plan is a "deadly blow" to the Palestinians and that he would not coordinate with them — an apparent response to ultra-nationalist critics who have accused him of succumbing to Palestinian violence.
Sharon angrily responded that the plan has not been finalized, Israeli officials said — and then suggested they leave the government if they are unhappy.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-04-05-israel-sharon_x.htm   (1013 words)

  
 Sharon calls for early elections - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
Sharon's decision to leave Likud sent shock waves through Israel, redrawing the political map, finalizing his transformation from hardliner to moderate and boosting prospects of progress in peacemaking with the Palestinians.
The faction chief, Gideon Saar, announced that Sharon had sent a letter announcing his resignation from the party.The oversized brown leather chair, normally reserved for Sharon at the head of the oval table, was pushed to the side.
Sharon had initially said Israel's general election would be held in November as scheduled, but after Peretz took over control of Labor, an early poll became inevitable.
www.iht.com /articles/2005/11/21/africa/web.1121sharon.php   (1011 words)

  
 Sharon Gilchrist
Sharon played upright bass as well, and this instrument was probably the one for which she was better known during her years in Nashville.
Sharon's main instrument is reported to be a red mahogony vine board inlay F5, made in 1991 by (coincidentally) Steve Gilchrist, an Australian instrument maker, originally for the late Henry Garris, as a copy of a one of a kind red 1924 Loar original.
Sharon is also maintaining her connection with Santa Fe's Cowgirl Restaurant, playing there recently with Bill Hearne.
homepage.ntlworld.com /farawayhills/sharon_gilchrist.html   (1865 words)

  
 Ariel Sharon: Profile of an Unrepentant War Criminal
Sharon was born in Kfar Malal in 1928.
Sharon made sure that all these licenses were given to Islamists, many of whom would be Hamas founders, as a way of creating a "countergang" ruling structure to eventually supplant the power of the PLO inside the occupied territories.
Sharon rushed to the United States and embarked on a nationwide tour on Nov. 14, 1993, in which he declared that the 150,000 Jewish settlers were the "only barrier to a Palestinian state." Sharon was accompanied, throughout the tour, by Yechial Leiter, a leader of the JDL in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba.
www.larouchepub.com /pr/site_packages/2002/sharon/020430sharon_crime_hist.html   (2506 words)

  
 CNN.com - Sharon shakes up Israeli politics - Nov 21, 2005
Sharon said the easiest course of action would have been for him to lead Likud in new primaries and a new election, but he added, "I decided to leave the Likud today.
A statement from Sharon said he asked for the dissolution of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, after reaching the conclusion that a majority within it was opposed to the government, making it impossible for him to govern.
Sharon's decision to leave Likud to form a new party is an odd move for the longtime hawk who has become something of a political pragmatist.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/11/21/israel.politics/index.html   (880 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Profile: Ariel Sharon
Mr Sharon rose to the rank of brigadier general and commanded a division during the Six-Day War of June 1967 in which Israel captured East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Mr Sharon was first elected to the Knesset in 1973, but resigned a year later to serve as a security adviser to Yitzhak Rabin.
US President George W Bush called Mr Sharon a "man of peace" but his years in office have seen the prospects for a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians recede at times, while the policy with Syria appears to be marking time.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1154622.stm   (1196 words)

  
 Sharon Isbin
Sharon Isbin acknowledges the audience’s standing ovation in her New York Philharmonic debut June 24, 2004, Avery Fisher Hall.
Sharon Isbin performed at Ground Zero for the reading of the names memorial and televised broadcast on September 11, 2002.
Sharon Isbin received a 2001 Grammy Award for her CD Dreams of a World (Teldec) for ‘Best Instrumental Soloist Performance without orchestra’.
www.sharonisbin.com   (421 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Sharon's last gamble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sharon's visit may well be the last for a man who has marched with his troops into the Gaza strip at least four times before.
The third was in 1970, when Sharon led a force that raided Gaza in an attempt to end Palestinian resistance operations and the fourth in 1973 when, now a general, he led his troops through Rafah and on to the Suez Canal.
This was Sharon's last encounter with Gaza as a professional soldier, though not as a politician.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/757/re7.htm   (1097 words)

  
 Sharon Osbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sharon was born in Brixton, London, the daughter of Ashkenazi Jewish music promoter and rock and roll entrepreneur Don Arden (born Harry Levy), and his wife Hope, an Irish Catholic.
Sharon's outburst against Steve on the night of the final is widely credited with helping him to win, although according to her autobiography he was well ahead at all stages of the voting.
Sharon Osbourne's autobiography, Extreme, (co-authored by Penelope Dening) was published in October 2005 and tells of her difficult childhood growing up with her father, Don Arden, and also documents the highs and lows of her marriage to husband Ozzy Osbourne, shedding light on areas of her life previously not commented on.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sharon_Osbourne   (2560 words)

  
 CNN.com - Sharon stable after 3rd brain operation - Jan 6, 2006
Ariel Sharon's grave illness has left Israeli political leaders grappling with what could be the end of an era.
Sharon also had a minor stroke December 18 and had been scheduled for surgery to repair a small hole in his heart.
Sharon led Israel's military and settler withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank and favored the internationally brokered "road map" to Mideast peace that calls for creation of an independent Palestinian state.
www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/01/06/sharon/index.html   (665 words)

  
 Innocent Ariel Sharon
Because of this commitment to Israel’s survival, Sharon may be uniquely positioned to achieve a peace agreement because he can negotiate the difficult and risky compromises Israel will ultimately have to make, and the vast majority of Israelis will be confident that he has protected their security.
While Sharon does not foreswear Israel’s legitimate claims to the disputed territories, he has made clear that he believes Israel should not control the lives of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and that Israel should withdraw to secure and defensible borders in exchange for real peace with the Palestinians.
Sharon sued the Magazine in an American court, and a jury--which we learned afterwards was admittedly predisposed to finding him guilty(!)--determined that the Time article was false and defamatory, and that "certain Time employees had acted negligently and carelessly".
www.geocities.com /sharonisinnocent   (10165 words)

  
 Ariel Sharon — FactMonster.com
A controversial figure, Sharon was the chief architect of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
In 2000, Sharon, accompanied by soldiers, visited to the Al Aksa Mosque (Temple Mount), a site holy to both Muslims and Jews, located in Palestinian East Jerusalem; his stated aim was to show that Israel had sovereignty over this and other holy sites.
Sharon formed a broad-based government of national unity, but pursued a hard line with the Palestinians.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0844730.html   (586 words)

  
 The Apartheid Wall, by Ran HaCohen
PM Sharon has long opposed the idea of a barrier between Israel and the West Bank.
Sharon is accused of exaggerations, turning the simple project of a 350km fence along the Green Line into an unfeasible 1.000km long enterprise:
But Sharon was not exaggerating: we now know that the western barrier is already 600km long, and adding a similar fence on the east makes Sharon's numbers look rather underestimated.
www.antiwar.com /hacohen/h052103.html   (1483 words)

  
 Sharon, New Hampshire
The request was granted, and it was incorporated as Sharon in 1791, after a Connecticut town from which many settlers had come.
Sharon is home to the Sharon Arts Center, founded in 1947 to offer courses in arts and crafts, and provide a gallery for exhibitions by local artists.
The largest decennial percent change was an increase of 74 percent between 1960 and 1970; population in Sharon increased by at least 20 percent each decade.
www.nhes.state.nh.us /elmi/htmlprofiles/sharon.html   (364 words)

  
 Sharon's Medical Team Disputes Clean Bill of Health - IRIS Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Assuming that the doctors have evidence of a clot and assuming that Sharon was not anti-coagulated before the stroke the most important thing would be to initiate anti-coagulation, probably using low doses of aspirin.
Sharon Was Incapacitated on Night of Stroke Prime Minister Sharon was not qualified to make decisions the night he was hospitalized for a stroke on Dec. 18, his physicians said Monday at a press conference in Jerusalem.
Sharon, according to Channel 10, reportedly was conscious, and able to speak, but was suffering from some weakness.
www.iris.org.il /blog/archives/803-Sharons-Medical-Team-Disputes-Clean-Bill-of-Health.html   (1935 words)

  
 Town of Sharon, NH USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SHARON, NEW HAMPSHIRE is situated in the south central part of the state in an area known as the Monadnock Region.
With a mean elevation of about 1,100 feet, Sharon is in the heavily forested highlands on the western slope of the Wapack Ridge comprised of Burton, Holt and Temple mountains.
Finally, on January 24, 1791, the town of Sharon, NH was incorporated.
www.sharonnh.org   (180 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sharon: Books: Wilbur Witt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The girl (Sharon) sits in her garden and teaches John the meaning of life, and it is not what he expects it to be.
What you will find in Sharon is a message that is two thousand years old, and you will find a message that is as new as the New Age Crystal shop down at the mall.
Sharon has become very near to me. She is to me as a spirit guide who, having led John through his life, comes to me and leads me forward.
www.amazon.com /Sharon-Wilbur-Witt/dp/158348700X   (944 words)

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