MIDDLE EAST: ARIEL SHARON PROFILE

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(3 Feb 2001) English/Nat
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Ariel Sharon, front-runner in Israel's February 6th election race, has always been known as a right wing hard-line politician.
A Likud member, Sharon's military and political career has been fickle and chequered.
The hawkish politician of today began his career in Israel's war of independence as a junior officer making his way up and eventually commanding a division in Sinai that crossed the Suez Canal, turning the tide of the war on the Egyptian front.
In 1981 he became Defence Minister and led Israel into the Lebanon War to drive out Palestine Liberation Organisation guerrillas.
He was later held indirectly responsible by the Kahan Commission of Inquiry for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Lebanese Christian militiamen.
As a result, he was forced to resign as Defence Minister in 1983.
Here he is seen parting from Israeli military men, including the young general Ehud Barak.
For the next 15 years, Sharon held only second rank posts until he was welcomed back into the mainstream by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
In 1996, Netanyahu created a ministry for Sharon where he became active in one of his hobbies - building and expanding settlements -- a post he held until being made Foreign Minister in October 1998.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"All those communities that we build, in Judea, Samaria, Gaza district, the Golan Heights, they are not an obstacle to peace, they are an obstacle to war."
SUPERCAPTION: Ariel Sharon
Netanyahu placed Sharon in charge of the Wye negotiations with the Palestinians, and returned with him from the U-S with an agreement in hand to give back more Palestinian territory.
Sharon's military security-minded attitude continued to his political career.
His hawkish opinions regarding Jerusalem and the settlements characterised his policies as foreign minister - Jerusalem is not to be divided and settlements are here to stay - if not grow.
The Likud party failed miserably in the 1998 elections causing Netanyahu to resign from the leadership of Likud.
Netanyahu, with Sharon standing at his side, thanked his deputy for his support, possibly hinting at his preference that Sharon take the helm.
Benjamin Netanyahu quit politics leaving the future of the Likud Party temporarily in the hands of his former deputy Ariel Sharon.
As head of opposition, Sharon widely criticised the left wing peace policy of Ehud Barak.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I am calling Mr. Barak to hold, not to make those concessions that endanger Israel and to get a better peace. His peace is a wrong peace".
SUPERCAPTION: Ariel Sharon
Sharon is reviled by Palestinians and is a polarizing figure among Israelis.
The 28 of September 2000, Palestinians riot after Sharon's visit to a disputed Jerusalem holy site.
His controversial visit to the Temple Mount known for the Muslims as the Haram EL Shariff will kick the "Al Aqsa Intefadeh," or uprising, named after the mosque at the holy site.
SOUNDBITE (English) :
"I came here to the holiest place of the Jewish people in order to see what happens here and to really have the feeling how to move forward. There was no provocation here, the provocations really from the other side".
SUPERCAPTION: Ariel Sharon
At least 4-hundred people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces since Sharon's visit to the site, putting the peace process in an irreversible situation and leading Barak to call for early elections.
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@aiesyahsyahirah4717 3 жыл бұрын

If pharaoh is alive he would think he is his long lost twin..

@user-ic7gm3ex4b 2 жыл бұрын

Even so tyrants will never learn!! Highest order of stupidity!!!

@tomaszterlecki4971 3 ай бұрын

My father he fought against Israel in Lebanon says he is worse than Netanyahu

@nuratanya3813 19 күн бұрын

They are the same

@rasasayange592 3 жыл бұрын

Permanent residence of the hell

@nugrohokun640 3 жыл бұрын

How long israel state can survive if US not support them anymore...sometime politic can change so dramatically...remember germany before NAZI exist...everything normal but then...Booom!!!...sorry for my broken english...

@steliosslkds 2 ай бұрын

One who knew how to deal with terrorists......His enemies will remember him forever!!!!

@hamudixy8044 21 күн бұрын

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@yinkadavies8403 4 жыл бұрын

At 3.44 was he still alive when Mr Barak Obama was in office?

@joshnicoll2207 4 жыл бұрын

Sharon is referring here to Ehud Barak, who preceded Sharon as PM of Israel from 1999 to 2001.

@123onajet Жыл бұрын

@@joshnicoll2207 @Yinka Davies Ehud Barak also had a very close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. On September 11th, 2001 just hours after the attacks, Ehud Barak was interviewed on british television placing the blame on Bin Laden and his terror cell network and the united states must eliminate Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, basically all of israel's surrounding enemies.