Yes, I've noticed Sharon exercising restraint a number of times over the past year or two. Course no way that could last forever when the bombings continue. Here's a little of what a scan pulled up:
Masses rally against Sharon's restraint policy By Etgar Lefkovits. JERUSALEM (June
7) - Four months to the day that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was elected in a ...
www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/06/07/News/News.27683.html - 38k -
Restraint is part of strength By Herb Keinon. JERUSALEM (June 4) - Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday said that Israel's restraint after Friday's ...
www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/06/04/News/News.27443.html - 40k -
israelinsider.com
The limits of restraint
June 19, 2001
The question of how long Israel can endure ongoing Palestinian cease-fire violationswithout reacting seems to annoy Prime Minister Sharon. It suggests to him a shortness of breath of the Israeli people. "If we ask every day - how long? - we shall lose," Sharon said at last week's funeral of 5-month-old Yehuda Hayim Shoham, who died from injuries suffered in a stoning attack. "But if we know how to stand and clench our teeth," Sharon went on, "to continue even when tears fill our throats, we shall win."
There are many speculations about Arik Sharon's restraint when Israeli public opinion
cried out for a serious retaliation following the massacre of 20 young ...
www.jewishpost.com/jp0710/jpn0710o.htm - 16k -
Is SHARON doing RESTRAINT for EU SUPPORT... as PERES CLAIMS...? A RESOUNDING...NO!!!!! ... SHARON'S
RESTRAINT POLICY for BUSH? BUSH KNOWS ARAFAT is FINISHED... ...
www.gamla.org.il/english/grape/2001/july/15.htm - 7k -
faculty.biu.ac.il
Sharon's Strategy of Restraint
Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2002
Gerald M. Steinberg
Since taking office one year ago, Prime Minister Sharon's policies have been guided by two central principles -- unity at home, and cooperation with the United States abroad. After the disasters of his Lebanon campaign twenty years ago, Sharon learned the centrality of both to Israeli security and to his own political survival. Along the way, he acted with extraordinary restraint (the Hebrew term is "swallowing frogs" -- an appropriate phrase before the Passover seder) to maintain the national government and partnership with Shimon Peres. In addition, on a number of occasions, Sharon has changed direction and adjusted his policies in order to avoid potential clashes with the Bush Administration....
Sharon Vows to Keep "Restraint" Despite Criticism
... It will allow the Palestinians to bring mortars, anti-aircraft missiles ..." Netanyahu
severely criticized Sharon's policy of restraint, saying that "the ...
english.peopledaily.com.cn/english/ 200107/23/eng20010723_75582.html - 19k
Elected as a hawk, Sharon now championing restraint (June 22, ...
... According to another view of the situation, Sharon's restraint is born of his
desire to maintain the close relationship he has forged with the young Bush ...
www.jewishsf.com/bk010622/1c.shtml - 11k
PittsburghLIVE.com - Line remains drawn in sand
... entirely. Many Israelis express surprise at Sharon's restraint following
the Tel Aviv suicide-bombing and the killing of settlers. Ehud ...
www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/ columnists/hiel/s_21531.html
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