by B. R. GOWANI
Young commander Ariel Sharon holds a Sten gun in a photo taken during the 1948 war. Sharon’s successful use of a hit-and-run strategy gained wide praise and led to the first of many promotions. PHOTO/Getty Images/Al Jazeera
During the Lebanon offensive, as Beirut was under the control of Israeli forces, hundreds of Palestinians living in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps were massacred by a Phalangist militia allied with Israel on Sept. 16, 1982. An official Israeli commission of inquiry ruled that Sharon bore “personal responsibility” for failing to prevent the killings. PHOTO/Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty Images/Al Jazeera
Ariel Sharon’s military/political life
was a long cruel and destructive sentence
without any colons or any other punctuation marks
or any comma in the violence this butcher committed
but then one day he went into an eight year coma
followed by a full stop, that is period
those eight years was the best gift
the Palestinian and Lebanese received from him
they should have received that gift much earlier
but alas that was not to be
as usual
tributes flowed in upon his death
Vice President Biden said:
he was a “complex man”
this moron
who had been humiliated
by the current Israeli Prime Minister
should have said little bit about Sharon’s crimes
but no, he didn’t say anything
Sharon was not a complex man
he was simply a psychopath
who enjoyed blowing up Palestinians and their houses
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com