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Book Review: A New Biography of Ariel Sharon


[Wall Street Journal] Tom Gross - Last month, one of Britain's leading magazines, The New Statesman, in the course of attacking Tony Blair for supporting the "racist regime in Tel Aviv," attributed to Ariel Sharon a series of racist remarks about Arabs. But Mr. Sharon had never said them. They were the words of extremists that he had specifically repudiated. It was the equivalent of taking the words of the Ku Klux Klan and putting them in the mouth of George W. Bush. Ariel Sharon: A Life by Israeli journalists Nir Hefez and Gadi Bloom, which appeared in Israel last year in Hebrew, has just been translated into English. Sharon may ultimately be best remembered as a military man. He was a master tactician. His assault on Abu Agelia fortress during the 1967 Six-Day War is still studied in military academies around the world. His crossing of the Suez Canal, against the orders of his superiors, changed the course of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As defense minister in 1981 - and in defiance of the whole world - he persuaded the Israeli government to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor.
2006-10-06 01:00:00
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