Ariel Sharon: Hardliner and realist

Deutsche Welle, 11 January 2014

There have been few more divisive figures in the Mideast than Ariel Sharon. As a general, and later a politician, the former prime minister, who died after eight years in a coma, shaped Israel's history for decades.

Ariel Sharon, or Arik, as he was known, who died Saturday (11.01.2014) aged 85 in a hospital near Tel Aviv, was often described as a hawk, or a hardliner. The English title of his autobiography proclaimed him a "warrior." Attitudes about him in the Middle East ranged from respectful and admiring to hostile and full of hatred. For many Israelis he was the hero of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, while for many Palestinians he was the "butcher of Sabra and Shatila."

Sharon was born Ariel Scheinermann in Tel Aviv in 1928. His parents were eastern European Jews who adopted the name of the Plain of Sharon, where they settled. Sharon's life was closely tied to the military history of the new state of Israel. In the 1948 War of Independence, often called the First Arab-Israeli War, he fought as a platoon commander. In 1953, he formed a unit that specialized in reprisals following attacks by Palestinian fighters, and two decades later, in the Yom Kippur War, his daring - and apparently unauthorized - crossing of the Suez Canal with a tank unit helped to secure victory over Egypt. During his military career, Sharon was considered one of Israel's greatest field commanders.

From officer to politician

As is the case with many leading Israeli politicians, Sharon's military experience became the springboard for a political career. He was elected to parliament for the conservative Likud party, and served both as agriculture and defense minister.

It was during this period that the invasion of Lebanon began. The purpose of the campaign was to expel the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from Israel's northern neighbor. But after the withdrawal of the PLO, a Christian militia allied with Israel attacked refugee camps at Sabra and Shatila in Beirut, killing hundreds of Palestinians. The massacres, which took place in Israeli-controlled territory, led to an international outcry.

Open investigation

An Israeli committee charged with investigating the massacres determined that Sharon also bore the responsibility, and he stepped down as defense minister in 1983, but remained in cabinet as minister without a brief. An investigation into Sharon's liability for the bloodbath was also initiated in Belgium, whose judicial system included the principle of universal jurisdiction, but this proved inconclusive.

None of this harmed Sharon's long-term career. In the years that followed he held the posts of foreign, trade, and construction ministers, before finally being elected prime minister in 2001. Following a power struggle within Likud, he announced his resignation at the end of 2005 and left to form the new centrist Kadima party.

No independent Palestine

Sharon always adopted an uncompromising, hard-line position towards the Palestinians, consistently stating that security for Israel was his highest priority. He was critical of the proposal for a independent Palestinian state and distanced himself from negotiations over Palestinian autonomy. Following a series of Palestinian suicide attacks against Israel, Sharon was quick to hold Yasser Arafat personally responsible, and defied international condemnation by putting the Palestinian leader under house arrest in his official residence in Ramallah.

Sharon did not shy away from other provocations, such as moving into an apartment right in the heart of the Arab quarter of Jerusalem's old town, and in September 2000 he incurred further uproar with a demonstrative visit to the Temple Mount, one of Islam's holiest sites. The resulting street fights developed into the second Palestinian intifada - which lasted four and a half years.

Clearing Jewish settlements

During his tenure, Sharon also withdrew a little from his uncompromising attitude. The aging hawk eventually ordered the Israeli military to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and clear the Jewish settlements there. In his autobiography, he wrote that Jews and Arabs could live together. But according to Avi Primor, Israel's former ambassador to Germany, the former prime minister always remained true to his basic convictions. "Ariel Sharon changed neither his ideology, his politics, and certainly not his instincts," he wrote in the German political journal Cicero. Instead, Primor argued, he was a realist merely accepting the changing circumstances.

On January 4, 2006, Sharon suffered a stroke and fell into a coma, leaving his deputy Ehud Olmert to take over as prime minister. He was later declared to be in a permanent vegetative state. On Wednesday, doctors said the 85-year-old's health had sharply deteriorated, and that he was suffering serious kidney problems.

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“… Let us talk about the swords: When you hear the word sword, the first thing that occurs to you is battle. The Bridge of Swords is a battle and we told you that as well. Swords are metaphoric and they mean many things, so let us describe the things we mean them to say to you.

Number one: They are indeed a weapon in a battle. There is a battle coming. "Kryon, does that mean there's going to be a war?" Potentially, yes. Right now we will tell you that the Middle East cooks itself. You've noticed, haven't you? What do you know about the Middle East, dear one? Let's start examining things for a moment. What energy did you grow up in? What was the energy of the Middle East? In the '40s, what was the energy? With the establishment of the state of Israel, you built a wall of hate, both sides. The wall was so thick that the children of both sides were taught to hate one another as soon as they were able to understand the language. They were told who their enemies were. Now, where were you then?

Some of you weren't here yet. By the time you arrived, in your youth, were you aware of the Middle East? Not particularly. "What's the hatred about?" you might ask. What if I told you it's about a family feud? Two sons of a Jewish master are involved. One founded the Arabs and one remained a Jew. They don't want to hear this, but they are all Jews. (Don't tell them this.)

If you look at the lineage, it's pretty obvious and yet it's a complete and total set-up for either solution or war. The set-up would have this world ending in a conflagration that would have been brought about by this hatred. That's in the prophecy of Nostradamus and your scripture, but it is no longer the prophecy of the planet. Yet the hatred still exists. The hatred is as great today as it was then, but where was all the terrorism 40 years ago? It was isolated.

Those in Israel and Palestine and surrounding areas took the brunt of it, but now it's seemingly everywhere - and you're worried. Why would this be? The answer is that the old energy was happy to have this hatred contained, for it would keep it going and never involve outsiders. Outsiders tend to bring unwanted light to the party. Suddenly, the whole earth is involved and can see the entire scenario before them. The old guard wants war, just like all the eons before them. The ones on the bridge are holding the light and showing the earth how to cross. Even many younger ones in Israel and Palestine and Iran are holding light! It's all around the old guard and they are furious, for they are losing the "battle of hatred." …”

"Recalibration of Free Choice"–  Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth,  4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical)  8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“ … Spirituality (Religions)

Number one: Spirituality. The systems of spiritual design on your planet are starting to change. This is not telling you that certain ones are going to go away. They're simply going to change. Some of the largest spiritual systems, which you would call organized religion on the planet, are shifting. They're going to shift away from that which is authority on the outside to authority on the inside. It will eventually be a different way of worship, slowly changing the rules while keeping the basic doctrine the same.

The doctrine of the Christ has always been to find the God inside. The teachings were clear. The examples of the miracles were given as an example of what humans could do, not to set a man up for worship as a God. So when that has been absorbed, the teaching of the Christ can remain the teaching of the Christ. It simply changes the interpretation. 

The teachings of the great prophets of the Middle East (all related to each other) are about unity and love. So once the holy words are redefined with new wisdom, the Human changes, not the words of the prophets. In fact, the prophets become even more divinely inspired and their wisdom becomes even more profound.

You're going to lose a pope soon. I have no clock. Soon to us can mean anything to you. The one who replaces him may surprise you, for his particular organization will be in survival mode at that point in time. That is to say that fewer and fewer are interested in starting the priesthood. Fewer and fewer young people are interested in the organization, and the new pope must make changes to keep his church alive. That means that his organization will remain, but with a more modern look at what truly is before all of you in a new energy. It is not the fall of the church. It is instead the recalibration of the divinity inside that would match the worship that goes on. It's a win-win situation. The new pope will have a difficult time, since the old guard will still be there. There could even be an assassination attempt, such is the way the old energy dies hard. That is number one. Watch for it. It's a change in the way spiritual systems work. It's a realignment of spiritual systems that resound to a stronger truth that is Human driven, rather than prophet driven.…”

"The End of History" – Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)

(Subjects: Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Muhammad, Jesus, God, Jews, Arabs, EU, US, Israel, Iran, Russia, Africa, South America, Global Unity,..... etc.) (Text version)

" ..... If an Arab and a Jew can look at one another and see the Akashic lineage and see the one family, there is hope. If they can see that their differences no longer require that they kill one another, then there is a beginning of a change in history. And that's what is happening now. All of humanity, no matter what the spiritual belief, has been guilty of falling into the historic trap of separating instead of unifying. Now it's starting to change. There's a shift happening. ....."

"... Taught to Hate From Birth

On this earth today, many who are born in Israel are taught from birth how to dislike and distrust all those around them. At this time in history on this earth, those around them from birth are taught how to hate the Jews. Carefully taught, they are. Against all odds, they are proud of this separation because it is the lineage of their ancestors that is at stake, and they want to follow historic protocol. They want to stay separate. Yet I want to tell you that's what is changing. Oh, it's really changing! It's changing in the places you don't expect. It's changing in Jerusalem. It's changing in Iran. And the children are waking up and saying, "Tell me again why I should hate them? They did what, when? That wasn't them. It was their ancestors. The ones here now are current and didn't participate in history. Tell me again, because I don't feel it."

The parents are shaking their heads, and saying, "Do as we say, for tradition and history tells us that they are our enemy and always will be." And the children are saying, "No. I am not going to do this, and neither are those around me." This is slowly making a difference on this planet and it is not being recorded. For your worldwide media has no idea what to do with this new energy and it doesn't seem to even be news to them. They are steeped in the old Human nature, where things that separate are news, and things that unify are not. Yet it is one of the greatest energies this planet is seeing today. I'm here to tell you it's real and it's happening under the hood, you might say. Oh, there are other things I'd like to report to you. ..."