[AP/Washington Post] Amy Teibel - One year after a stroke felled Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, he is still in a coma in a Tel Aviv hospital and is not expected to recover. Sharon confidant Raanan Gissin felt Sharon's aura would have deterred Palestinian militants and Hizbullah guerrillas in Lebanon from provoking Israel. "He himself was a deterrent element in Israel's strategic posture," said Gissin, Sharon's former spokesman. "They respected him, they feared him in the Arab world."
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