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Beiden Artikel wurden von dem Journalis Robert Fisk geschrieben , beiden sprechen wie Heuchlicher Regierungen und Medien über dieser Mörder gesprochen haben .

Any other Middle Eastern leader who survived eight years in a coma would have been the butt of every cartoonist in the world. Hafez el-Assad would have appeared in his death bed, ordering his son to commit massacres; Khomeini would have been pictured demanding more executions as his life was endlessly prolonged. But of Sharon – the butcher of Sabra and Shatila for almost every Palestinian – there has been an almost sacred silence.

Cursed in life as a killer by quite a few Israeli soldiers as well as by the Arab world – which has proved pretty efficient at slaughtering its own people these past few years – Sharon was respected in his eight years of near-death, no sacrilegious cartoons to damage his reputation; and he will, be assured, receive the funeral of a hero and a peacemaker.

Thus do we remake history. How speedily did toady journalists in Washington and New York patch up this brutal man's image. After sending his army's pet Lebanese militia into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982, where they massacred up to 1,700 Palestinians, Israel's own official enquiry announced that Sharon bore "personal" responsibility for the bloodbath.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ariel-sharon-peacemaker-hero-and-butcher-9053699.html

The ‘flowers’ of the Arab Spring are so distracting that Ariel Sharon’s death has barely raised a whimper

Has ever the Arab awakening – the Arab “Spring” if we were to believe the nonsense spouted at the time – looked more desperate, more bloody, more hopeless, more despairing than it does today? I am not referring to the anguish so distracting the Arab world that it scarcely raised a whimper this weekend when the man most of them regarded as a war criminal – Ariel Sharon – was mourned by the West and its frightened journos as “iconic”, “legendary”, “audacious”, a “bulldozer” and “a proudly Zionist general”.

Incredibly, the presenter of Al Jazeera English even offered her “sincere condolences” to an Israeli friend of this dreadful man. When the Israeli Kahan Commission report was quoted by reporters, they inaccurately said it held Sharon only “indirectly” responsible for the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacres of up to 1,700 Palestinian civilians murdered by Israel’s proxy Lebanese militia. In fact, the official text also states that Sharon was “personally” responsible.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/robert-fisk-the-flowers-of-the-arab-spring-are-so-distracting-that-ariel-sharons-death-has-barely-raised-a-whimper-9054391.html

Bilder

1) Palestinian women pass the body of one of the victims of the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra .

2) Palestinian refugees living in the Shatila refugee camp in the Lebanese
capital of Beirut hand out sweets as they celebrate following the news
of the death of former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon, on Jan. 11, 201
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=664541