Few tears among Muslims

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Ariel Sharon

The Arab world won’t miss Ariel Sharon, said Saudi Arabia’s Al-Watan in an editorial. Western commentators are hailing the Israeli prime minister as a “man of peace.” They seem to believe that Sharon had magically transformed from hawk to dove a few months before his debilitating stroke, merely because he was “obliged” to abandon Gaza. Arabs were not fooled. Sharon “never missed a chance to kill Palestinian children, old people, and women.” His crimes stretch across decades, from the massacres in Lebanon to the destruction of the Jenin refugee camp. It’s particularly telling that Sharon loved to be called by his nickname, “the Bulldozer.” He must have found razing homes and turning pregnant women out of doors awfully amusing.

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