To: bentway who wrote (267202 ) 1/6/2006 11:16:27 AM From: Emile Vidrine Respond to of 1580448 Ariel Sharon is dying – comments by Israel Shamir Sharon: The End of His Era, by Israel Shamir The Japanese begin counting years anew with a new emperor. The rumours in Tel Aviv claim Sharon is already dead, while others give him a few hours of life; there is a feeling of end of an era, the Sharon era. He did not depart in peace. A day before a scheduled operation on his heart, Israeli media broadcasted a 'revelation' that Sharon took three million dollar bribe. This news item based on unidentified police sources was broadcasted incessantly for hours, in every programme. Demands for him to retire were orchestrated as only consolidated media can do. Probably this leak made the trick, and he was retired for good. Sharon's story is a story of omnipotence of the Jewish media. For years, they covered up the grisly massacre of Kibie and sanitised the Sabra and Shatila. Read about it our friend Ahmed Amr <http://nilemedia.com/Columnists/Ahmed/2001/June/Sharons_Willing.html andnilemedia.com ; A few years ago some idealistic souls believed Sharon, a Jewish Otto Skorzeny, is on his way to the Hague, to the tribunal. They were mistaken: he was on his way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize, and would surely get it from the obedient Norwegians but for the stroke. Now he departs this world ready to be packaged as a saint. Everybody knows that Sharon gave to Palestinians the settlements of Gaza; very few people know he took it back by establishing fire-free zone in the north of Gaza. The right hand of Sharon gave, in public, in live broadcast; his left hand took it back in private, and the mainstream media covered it up. Many good people intensely disliked Sharon. Uri Avnery and other peace-loving folk concentrated on Sharon for years. But he was nor worse neither better than other leading Israeli politicians. True, he was a killer, but he shared this distinction with Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Shamir, Menahem Begin and David Ben-Gurion. Whoever will take his place, Netanyahu or Olmert, won’t be better, and I doubt they will be worse. Until the whole setup of Jewish supremacy is undermined, not only in Palestine, but in the US and France, Britain and Italy, we can’t expect a radical change.