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  • Sharon is looking a little too large for comfort. I know the guy has a high stress level but he certainly looks a far cry from the young, dapper Sharon leading armies to victory.
    Ok, i’ll give it up now but let’s just say the plane breathed a sigh of relief when he stepped off. Time to lay off the knishes!

  • What a nice thing for a Jewish prime minister to say. Now you can understand that come this yom ha’atzmaut, there might be a serious movement to not celebrate. The state is a tool, and when the tool is used against the torah and the Jews, then the tool has perhaps passed its time.

    This might probably be the biggest sin that Sharon has made until now – talking loshon hara about Jews in front of goyim.

    tm, your title is off. He didn’t only demonize the unknown people who the media says want to kill him, but rather anyone who doesn’t agree with his plan.

    The sad thing is that I have to add a disclaimer for the shabak guys reading this blog (not that the judges give a crap). I do not advocate killing Sharon for his sins. Gd will deal with him in due time.

  • We got Shabak reading Jewlicious?

    *waves hello*

    By the way Josh, you think the sin is lashon hara (speaking evil of others), but do you also believe he is sinning by lying? Or is he stating some truth?

  • T_M wrote:
    do you also believe he is sinning by lying? Or is he stating some truth?
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    The cat was told to guard the milk, drank the milk, then complains that it is thirsty.

    Sharon was elected with a majority even larger than he is – specifically to enact a hard-line platform. Voters overwhelmingly rejected the unilateral withdrawal proposed by Labor and any continuation of Oslo-style unilateral concessions.

    He squandered that incredible Parliamentary majority and trashed the conventions of Israeli politics – countermanding his own party, breaking coalition agreements, and firing and strongarming ministers.

    All to implement a wildly unpopular policy – one that rips the heart out of his core constituency’s breast.

    In the last vote on the budget only 13 Likudnik schleppers (correct Israeli term is “jobnik”) voted with him. From a whole bottle of milk, just 13 drops left to lick up.

    NOW he complains that people don’t like him?

    Ben-David

  • Say what you want about sharon, he sticks by word. He might lose half his party’s support but he is not a leader driven by polls.

  • Ben David, the disengagement is wildly popular, not the opposite. And he secured the vote of his own party for this move. Furthermore, he also put up with a vote for a referendum which fell through. He may have strongarmed ministers and Knesset members, just as George Bush strongarms Republicans to vote for the bills he wants them to introduce and pass, just as Clinton did the same and Barak did the same. That’s how politics works. Sharon, like Rabin, has used legal means to achieve this disengagement. Period. His life is under threat. Period.

  • joey,
    Say what you want about sharon, he sticks by word. He might lose half his party’s support but he is not a leader driven by polls.

    Wrong, wrong, wrong.

    Sharon is a big liar. There is no doubt about that.

    TM will tell us though that something he said yesterday, might not be relevant anymore, and since what we need is pragamtic leader, then this leader is allowed to change his mind in order to be pragmatic.

    Numerous examples of the lies; the 14pts to the RoadMap, promising to abide by Likud central committee decisions, assuring us many times that Bush accepts the settlemet blocs, etc…

    Some would claim that Sharon’s Prime Minister’s Office even ‘leaks’ fake polls to back up its policy. The Israeli media has admitted to be the ‘guard dog of the expulsion’ rather than the ‘guard dog of democracy’.

    Try http://imra.org.il occasionally for crticial thinking.