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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110100946.html
The Warrior Behind the Plow
(Washington Post) Richard Cohen - Israel is more or less at war. A suicide bomber had killed five people in the northern Israeli town of Hadera and Israel, as usual, had retaliated, killing in the Gaza Strip an important leader of the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, which had claimed credit for the attack. For Sharon, the principle is simple: No one gets away with killing Israelis. It is the essence of his foreign policy, which is his domestic policy, which is his military policy, which is the guiding principle of his life - what he calls his "red line." Whatever he does, however he manages the so-called peace process, he will not risk "the blood of a single Israeli citizen."