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No Palestinian tears for Sharon

Palestinians will not be mourning the loss of Israeli strongman Ariel Sharon, whom they remember as the "Butcher of Beirut."
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JANUARY 09:  Members of the press are seen through a cracked window while waiting for an update on Former PM Ariel Sharon's condition at the Tel Hashomer hospital on January 9, 2014 near Tel Aviv, Israel. according to Prof. Zeev Rotstein the director general of the Tel Hashomer hospital PM Ariel Sharon's condition is critical and he is suffering from a multiple organ failure,Sharon, 85, is hospitalised in Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv, and has been comatose since January 4, 2006 whe
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If you were to ask a 20-year-old Palestinian today about Ariel Sharon, you might be surprised how little this generation knows about him. The past eight years, in which Sharon became incapacitated, and the few years before that in which he had softened his radical stance, appear to have chipped away at the warmonger image that is still etched in the consciousness of almost every Palestinian over 25 years old.

More than any other Israeli military figure, Sharon seems to be present in every violent mark since the Nakba and creation of Israel.

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