Ariel Sharon

Born Ariel Scheinermann on 26 February 1928 was an Israeli general and former Israeli Prime Minister. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began to prepare a defense against potential war crimes charges in Belgium, according to reports on Israeli Army Radio. Sharon preparing war crimes defense BBC, 26 July, 2001. The Indict Sharon Now Campaign was an independent, international initiative to indict and prosecute former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for war crimes and crimes against humanity spanning a half-century. In his autobiography, Warrior, Sharon depicts Arabs as infantile, timorous, and untrustworthy. A man even many Israelis consider a war criminal.

• A man who flies a large Israeli flag and Menorah atop his requisitioned home in the Muslim quarter of the old city of Jerusalem which must be constantly guarded by Israeli troops.
• The man who commanded Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 (20,000+ Lebanese civilians dead) and was personally responsible for the Sabra and Shatilla massacres).
• A man whose personal history of brutalizing and dispossessing Palestinians goes back to the 1950s
• A man who was the main architect of Israel's settlement expansion programs in Jerusalem and throughout the occupied territories.
• Sharon war crimes

Famous Sharon Quote: "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio. (Certainly the FBI's cover-up of the Israeli spy ring/phone tap scandal suggests that Mr. Sharon may not have been joking.) Of course he wasn't joking!