More than eight years he was in a coma, now Ariel Sharon died in a hospital in Jerusalem. The Israeli general and former head of government was 85 years old. He was one of the most controversial figures in the history of the Jewish state.
Israel’s ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died on Saturday at the age of 85 years in Jerusalem. This reported Israeli TV and radio stations, citing family members.
The former army general and politician was on 4 Fell in January 2006 after a severe stroke into a coma and had never since attained full consciousness. In the years of his infirmity his sons Omri and Gilad had ever visited him. Recently had been diagnosed with multiple organ failure physicians.
Ariel Sharon was born in 1928 near Tel Aviv, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Already as a teenager he joined the Haganah underground organization that fought against the British Mandate and Arab militias.
In the Israeli-Arab wars in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, he acquired merit as determined and swashbuckling commander who received large risks and thus import success. Partly reviews, who accused him of recklessly endangering the lives of his men on the line and to commit war crimes against Arab civilians and soldiers could not harm his reputation.
General and politician:Resolute supporters of Israeli settlers
This only changed in 1982: During the Lebanon war with Israel allied Christian militias had committed a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in 1982 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. An Israeli commission confirmation that the then Minister of Defence Ariel Sharon indirectly complicit. The ex-general had to vacate his office in 1983.
The construction of Israeli settlements in the Arab territories occupied in 1967 supported Sharon initially massive. “Now everyone has to start to move, run and grab as many hills as possible in order to expand the settlements,” Sharon had told at a meeting with settlers in November 1998.
Sharon has thus decisively contributed to the expansion of settlements, as one of the major obstacles remain to this day on the way to a peace settlement in the Middle East. On the other hand, he was in 1982 after the peace treaty with Egypt evacuate Jewish settlements in the Sinai Peninsula.
Sharon was from 2001 onwards for five years head of government. Previously, he had thrown as Oppositionsführerim September 2000 with a perceived by Muslims as provocative visit to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem unrest, which led to an armed insurrection, known as the Second Intifada.
During his nearly five-year tenure, he took a drastic change of course. He sat in the summer of 2005 by Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip against massive opposition at home. This step led to a break with long-standing political companion and establishing the Kadima Party in November 2005.
A few weeks later, Sharon’s political career was abruptly ended. In December 2005, he suffered a stroke in early January 2006, he suffered sudden cerebral hemorrhage. He fell into a coma from which he never to awake again.
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