BobbyD
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Just when the world was beginning.........
....to make progress, Sharon's health decides to take a turn for the worst. Unfortunate, I tell ya'.
Jan 6th, 2006 02:17 PM
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Jan 6th, 2006 02:17 PM
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Scooter, you don't know what I'm referring to?
Jan 6th, 2006 02:19 PM
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Not really, no.
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Jan 6th, 2006 02:20 PM
botankus
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This is the other "Sharon." You know, the one doesn't have "Stone" as a part of their name.
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Jan 6th, 2006 02:25 PM
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quote: Not really, no.
Arial Sharon, Israeli leader, has suffered serious bleeding strokes and is currently in an induced coma. It looks unlikely he will return to politics, and could force an election, and the Palestinians aren't unhappy about it - ergo politicians predict this could set back the "peace" process who knows how far.
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Jan 6th, 2006 02:26 PM
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Makes sense now. Thank IS.
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Jan 6th, 2006 02:36 PM
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C'mon, Scoots....you gotta stay on top of your current events a little more.
Jan 6th, 2006 02:42 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
Arial Sharon, Israeli leader, has suffered serious bleeding strokes and is currently in an induced coma. It looks unlikely he will return to politics, and could force an election, and the Palestinians aren't unhappy about it - ergo politicians predict this could set back the "peace" process who knows how far.
ironic since not so long ago palestinians refered to him as the 'butcher'.
strange days indeed
Jan 6th, 2006 02:42 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by BobbyD
C'mon, Scoots....you gotta stay on top of your current events a little more.
Ihaven't been paying attention to them. *shrug* I'm more concerned with America, instead of other countries.
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Jan 6th, 2006 02:44 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by PVS
ironic since not so long ago palestinians refered to him as the 'butcher'.
strange days indeed
I'm pretty sure a good number still do. They had scenes on the news of people handing out sweets in celebration of his imminent death, or so they believe. Still, cooler heads and more moderate leaders seem concerned, at least with the current Palestinian authority anyway.
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Jan 6th, 2006 02:49 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by §cooter
Ihaven't been paying attention to them. *shrug* I'm more concerned with America, instead of other countries.
This will effect America me thinks.
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Jan 6th, 2006 02:58 PM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by PVS
ironic since not so long ago palestinians refered to him as the 'butcher'.
strange days indeed
jaden patiently waits for someone to bring up the obvious saddam reference
oops...i did it myself
as bad as ariel sharon is...he's the only person on the political spectrum of israel and palestine who treads the middle ground with authority
without him i have no doubt the bejamin netanyahu will win in the next elections...he has already said he will give no leeway with regards to the palestinians...and the whole place will decend into chaos again
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Jan 6th, 2006 04:54 PM
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Robertson suggests God smote Sharon
quote: CNN - Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.
"He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America,'" Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, "The 700 Club."
"God says, 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone,'" he said.
Robertson's show airs on the ABC Family cable network and claims about 1 million viewers daily.
Sharon, 77, clung to life in a Jerusalem hospital Thursday after surgery to treat a severe stroke, his doctors said.
The prime minister, who withdrew Israeli settlers and troops from Gaza and parts of the West Bank last summer over heated objections from his own Likud Party, was breathing with the aid of a ventilator after doctors operated to stop the bleeding in his brain.
In Washington, President Bush offered praise for Sharon in a speech on Thursday.
"We pray for his recovery," Bush said. "He's a good man, a strong man. A man who cared deeply about the security of the Israeli people, and a man who had a vision for peace. May God bless him."
Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the United States, compared Robertson's remarks to the overheated rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He called the comments "outrageous" and said they were not something to expect "from any of our friends."
"He is a great friend of Israel and a great friend of Prime Minister Sharon himself, so I am very surprised," Ayalon told CNN.
Robertson, 75, founded the Christian Coalition and in 1988 failed in a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He last stirred controversy in August, when he called for the assassination of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez.
Robertson later apologized, but still compared Chavez to Hitler and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the process.
The same month, the Anti-Defamation League criticized Robertson for warning that God would "bring judgment" against Israel for its withdrawal from Gaza, which it had occupied since the 1967 Mideast war.
Robertson said Thursday that Sharon was "a very likable person, and I am sad to see him in this condition."
He linked Sharon's health problems to the 1995 assassination of Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the Oslo peace accords that granted limited self-rule to Palestinians.
"It was a terrible thing that happened, but nevertheless, now he's dead," Robertson said.
Rabin was gunned down by a religious student opposed to the Oslo accords. The killer, Yigal Amir, admitted to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison.
Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, criticized Robertson's comments Thursday, saying the televangelist "has a political agenda for the entire world."
"He seems to think God is ready to take out any world leader who stands in the way of that agenda," Lynn said in a written statement.
"A religious leader should not be making callous political points while a man is struggling for his life," he said. "I'm appalled."
Ralph Neas, president of liberal advocacy group People for the American Way, said "it is astonishing that Pat Robertson still wields substantial influence" in the Republican Party.
"Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance," Neas said in a written statement.
According to The Associated Press, Robertson spokeswoman Angell Watts said of people who criticized the comments: "What they're basically saying is, 'How dare Pat Robertson quote the Bible?'"
"This is what the word of God says," Watts told the AP. "This is nothing new to the Christian community."
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Jan 6th, 2006 06:39 PM
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anyone think with him out of the picture more violence could erupt in that region?
Jan 6th, 2006 07:33 PM
ash007
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indeed he was the one who wanted to give the Palestinians some of there land back. Other in his own Party disagreed with him?
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Jan 6th, 2006 08:09 PM
BobbyD
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Sadly A1, yes....do think it will become more violent.
However, you know this is actually the perfect time for the wooorrrld to intervene IF after the new Isreali prime minister is in office, the Palestinians revolt.
Jan 6th, 2006 08:51 PM
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Re: Just when the world was beginning.........
quote: (post ) Originally posted by BobbyD
....to make progress, Sharon's health decides to take a turn for the worst. Unfortunate, I tell ya'.
I don't get this..
Just when the world was what? Why is it unfortunate?
I always thought Sharon was a bastard..
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Jan 6th, 2006 08:54 PM
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Actually, I heard he found out about the woman that married the dolphin. He was cool with it, until he hear teh dolphin's name was Cindy. He thought something gay was going on in the promised land and fell over from a stroke.
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Jan 6th, 2006 08:58 PM
BobbyD
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That's so wrong, Cap'n.
Overlord, yes I suppose he may have been a bastard, but he was doing a pretty good job of keeping the peace in a very volatile region.
Jan 6th, 2006 09:05 PM
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