Ariel Sharon
New revelations on a bitter anniversary.
The strong, silent type.
Lessons from the disengagement.
An unwritten agreement.
The two disparate texts intoned at Ariel Sharon’s funeral tell us much about contemporary Jewish attitudes toward life, death, and the land of Israel.
And demonized the settlers.
From right to left, and from honest to corrupt.
Its political benefits were temporary and illusory.
Funding BDS, condemning Israel, and imposing embargoes.
At a critical juncture in the early 2000s, the White House adviser helped repair a fraying U.S.-Israel relationship.
Last Sunday was the anniversary of Ariel Sharon’s death. Elliott Abrams reflects on what the general and statesman would say were he alive today:
In death as in life, the late Israeli leader serves as a bogeyman in the Arab world and a convenient excuse for avoiding its pathologies of violence.
As it moves out of the shadow of its founding generation, what Israel needs is not so different from what America needed as the. . .
Israel’s Left, in lauding Ariel Sharon’s courage and leadership, has conspicuously omitted mention of his key role in Israel’s Thatcherite economic turn.