The Post’s View: Ariel Sharon’s vision for Israel remains unfulfilled

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ariel-sharons-vision-for-israel-remains-unfulfilled/2014/01/11/23af6fa4-749c-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html?hpid=z2

This isn't N. Korea's tame press. This is the Washington Post: MSM Complete Version.

"ARIEL SHARON’s life spanned the trajectory of Israel’s history, from a boyhood on a secular, collective farm in the days of the British mandate, to participation in Israel’s War of Independence, to the battles, sieges and struggles of the six decades that followed. For much of his life, Mr. Sharon was renowned for his headstrong manner and his ruthlessness with Israel’s Arab foes. He was a brilliant military tactician who as a politician could be by turns clever, charismatic and brutal. Most remarkably, a lifetime of battles eventually brought him, as Israel’s prime minister, to the cusp of a profound drive for peace, cut short by a stroke eight years ago from which he never recovered.

Mr. Sharon displayed a soldier’s determination and zeal throughout his life. He joined the Haganah, a pre-state military force, when still a teenager. While serving as a platoon commander he was wounded in the 1948 battle of Latrun, but returned to combat. In the 1950s, Mr. Sharon led the commando Unit 101. A reprisal raid in 1953 on the Arab village of Qibya blew up houses and a school, killing 69 Arabs, among them women and children. In the Suez campaign, the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Sharon proved both a war hero and an insubordinate commander who judged for himself — often correctly — what course would bring victory."

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I almost came.