This is Sharons Brain

Pre-1948 partition of Palestine.





After Six Days War 1967




Brain Scan Shows No Change in Sharon

Yep no change after 50 years.


Viewpoint: A dire case of collective amnesia

The hundreds of endearing commentaries, venerating news reports and glorifying television programs - massively sprung in the wake of his unexpected stroke on January 4 - makes it doubtless that only a legacy like that of Mother Teresa can match Sharon's "towering" legacy, "larger than life" persona and selfless "sacrifices" for peace.

The bashful attempts by some to balance the media's gross misconceptions about Sharon went largely unheard. The man's direct and indirect involvement in tormenting the Palestinian people for 50 long years seemed completely irrelevant.

Sharon's disregard for civilian lives, since his early years as a fighter for the Jewish underground terrorist organization Haganah (1948-49), and his role as commander of an infamous army unit responsible for several massacres (most remembered is the brutal murder of 69 defenseless villagers in Qibya in 1953) seemed an extraneous nuisance.

Also to be dropped from the narrative was the list of relentless war crimes that took place throughout the 1950s and 60s (during Israel's wars with Egypt), late 1970s (during his bloody reign in Gaza), the 1980s (his contemptible war and massacres in Lebanon) and most recently with the advent of the Second Palestinian Uprising in September 2000, one that he provoked and antagonized through his misguided policy of assassination.

Since his election to serve as Israel's Prime Minister in 2001, Sharon has supplemented his notorious resume with the abolition of several thousand Palestinian lives.

Sharon, or the "man of peace" according to President Bush, seems to have decidedly earned a place in history simply for relocating several thousand illegal Jewish settlers from occupied Gaza to the occupied West Bank. Though Sharon has repeatedly asserted that his decision to disengage from Gaza has more to do with Israel's strategic and demographic needs than peace, very few took notice. Though the number of illegal settlers in the West Bank has since then increased by more than 4 percent, that mattered little.

Map Showing Gaza Settlements Evacuated

Settlement Founded Population** Atzmona (Bnei Atzmona) 1982** 650 Bedola'h 1986 220 Dugit 1982 80 Elei Sinai 1983 350 Gdid 1982 310 Ganei Tal 1979 400 Gan Or 1983 350 Katif 1985 405 Kerem Atzmona 2001 70 Kfar Darom*** 1989 365 Kfar Yam 1983 20 Morag 1972 220 Netzarim 1972 390 Netzer Hazani 1973 410 Neveh Dekalim 1983 2,500 Nissanit 1980 1050 Pe'at Sadeh 1989 105 Rafiah Yam 1984 150 Shirat Hayam 2000 50 Slav 1980 50 Tel Katifa 1992 75 * Founded 1979 in Sinai. Moved to Gaza, 1982. **Kfar Darom was founded about 1935; destroyed 1939; re-founded 1946; destroyed 1948 *** Estimates are about 15% below published total of 8,500

Maps courtesy of MIDEASTWEB MAGAZINE

Also see:

Green Eggs and Hamas

Let Sleeping Lions Lie

No Tears for Sharon

Pat Robertson Curses Again

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