Son of Ariel Sharon Makes Frightening Gaza Comments

[Purveyor]

Gilad Sharon, son of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, has written a sickening op-ed in the Jerusalem Post expressing a desire to ‘flatten’ Gaza, and even, it seems, suggest using nuclear weapons against the impoverished refugees:

We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too.

There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they’d really call for a ceasefire.

According to Sharon, there it no such thing as an innocent Gazan – they elected Hamas, so must be collectively punished for the actions of their government:

The desire to prevent harm to innocent civilians in Gaza will ultimately lead to harming the truly innocent: the residents of southern Israel. The residents of Gaza are not innocent, they elected Hamas. The Gazans aren’t hostages; they chose this freely, and must live with the consequences.

I try to keep personal emotion out of my analysis, particularly when it comes to the situation in Israel. I am of Jewish heritage, so was initially blindly pro Israel before I understood the complex history of the region. I decided to keep ethnic pride out of the equation when assessing the conflict, and now understand the situation to be a tragic example of colonialism and occupation – sadly on behalf of my own people. While I am able to distance myself from the tribal emotion of it all, I can’t help but feel utterly depressed when reading dehumanizing hate mongering by figures like Gilad Sharon – a Jew who should be ashamed of himself given the history of his own people.

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[Purveyor]

2. BTW...I'm really not interested in what your not 'interested' in. Like I would reply to you other

than THIS...anyway.

Have a good night.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. "And he has the power to do what, precisely?"

Spread his poison under the name Sharon...just like his dear old dad.

[delrem]

5. He's the son of Ariel Sharon, and he writes op-eds for the Jerusalem Post.

Don't tell me he has no power and influence. Don't tell me that his views weren't incubated in a totally mainstream Israeli culture, which elected his father to power.

[jillan]

4. Newsflash - there are neo-cons in Israel, just like there are neo-cons here in the US. Can you

imagine what is in the papers all over the world about what John McCain has said?

Some people just want war. Period.

[delrem]

6. So, let us stand together against them. nt

[jillan]

7. Yes - all of them. But when John McCain starts ranting about Iran or Syria, not too many

people take him seriously. And lets hope not too many people take Sharon's son seriously either because the people of Israel do not want these f-ing wars, anymore than we want to be in any wars.

You cannot look at a country and think their leaders speak for the citizens. Just like the people of Iran who want peace, but are stuck with Ahjmedijad (spelling?!)
Just like the US under Dubya. He did not speak for me.
Just like my governor, Jan Brewer, does not speak for me.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. Kill them all, kill them all, kill them all.

Nits make lice...



Wow, that is fucking barbaric.

[Scootaloo]

10. Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

Any person who want to use those as a defense of their position is no longer qualified to speak about anything involving other human beings. period.



Fuck you, Gilad.

[Ed Suspicious]

11. right on.

[ReRe]

12. The Apple...

,.. didn't fall from the tree. Disgusting.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. What's cool is when these people speak their mind,...

...sane people suddenly notice they're nuts.

[LeftishBrit]

14. Horrible man

Hope that he doesn't ever get anywhere politically. A good example, if one needed it, of why the' hereditary principle' in politics is dangerous.

[oberliner]

15. This blog post is over a month old

You posted it now, why?

[Stand and Fight]

16. Because he can and this isn't latest breaking news...

Furthermore, not everyone -- myself included -- has seen this. So, my hat's off to the OP, because otherwise I wouldn't have seen this.

Pray tell, why did you click on it? Perhaps because you thought it was an interesting title?

[Solindsey]

17. Woah.

Openly speaking in such a violent way is just scary. Sharon's spawn acting like the Terrorist he was nurtured to be. Trying hard to make your crazy daddy proud? How is talk like that not condemned by more well reasoned and sensible Jews? Replace Gaza with Tel aviv in those vile statements he made and you guys will suddenly give a damn?