| April 29, 2007 | - In a Ha'aretz op-ed, Gilad Sharon, son of vegetative former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, advocated stripping Arab Israelis of their citizenship. Hamas declared an end to its ceasefire with Israel, armed protestors dropped the corpse of a murdered man named Hassan Abu Sharkh in the Palestinian Authority Parliament, several rockets struck Israel from Gaza, and the Israel Defense Forces killed three Hamas agents planting a bomb by the Gaza border fence.
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Ha'aretz
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International Herald Tribune
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Jerusalem Post
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| August 14, 2006 | -
Ariel Sharon's cerebral condition was reportedly growing worse.
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CNN.com
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| April 6, 2006 | - Doctors reattached a section of Ariel Sharon's skull.
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The New York Times
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| April 3, 2006 | -
Ariel Sharon was about to undergo head surgery.
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BBC News
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| March 17, 2006 | - Doctors planned to move Ariel Sharon to a long-term care facility.
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AP via Sign On San Diego
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| February 12, 2006 | - Doctors in Israel said that Ariel Sharon was unlikely to wake up.
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Haaretz
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| January 16, 2006 | -
Ariel Sharon twitched his eyelids and cried.
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Forbes/AP
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| January 13, 2006 | -
Pat Robertson apologized to Ariel Sharon's son, Omri, for being “inappropriate and insensitive” when he said that Sharon's illness was God's punishment. It remained unclear, however, whether Robertson would once again be permitted to build a theme park by the Sea of Galilee.
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BBC News
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| January 7, 2006 | -
Ariel Sharon had another stroke. Pat Robertson blamed Sharon's poor health on God. Sharon later began to move his right hand,
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YNetNews.com
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CNN.com
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ABC News
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| January 3, 2006 | - It was reported that Ariel Sharon's family had been given $3 million in bribes.
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BBC News
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| December 18, 2005 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had a stroke. Palestinians celebrated Sharon's stroke and leaders of Kahane, the ultra-nationalist Jewish group, called on members to pray for the Prime Minister's death.
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Y Net News
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| September 26, 2005 | -
Hamas announced that it would stop using the Gaza Strip to stage incursions into Israel after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised to crack down on the group.
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LA Times
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| May 22, 2005 | -
Ariel Sharon visited New York City, where he was also heckled by Jews.
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BBC News
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| February 15, 2005 | -
Ariel Sharon announced plans to withdraw 8,500 settlers from Gaza and several hundred settlers from the West Bank. The Knesset ratified the plan, setting aside $870 million for resettlement, even though some Israeli parliamentarians compared the withdrawal to the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| February 15, 2005 | - Guards were placed around the grave of Sharon's wife, Lily, to protect it from desecration by outraged settlers.
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New York Times
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| February 8, 2005 | -
Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon shook hands across a table and declared a truce between Israel and Palestine.
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BBC News
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| July 20, 2004 | - President Jacques Chirac told Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon that he was no longer welcome in France.
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Deutsche Welle
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| May 31, 2004 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel was still trying to convince his coalition to go along with plans to withdraw from part of the Gaza Strip, and he threatened to fire cabinet members, such as Benjamin Netanyahu, who oppose him.
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Financial Times
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| May 8, 2004 | - The Bush Administration was trying to persuade European and other leaders to support Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, even though Sharon's own Likud Party rejected it.
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New York Times
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| May 3, 2004 | - The Likud Party, in a referendum, rejected Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip, where a pregnant Israeli woman and her four daughters, ages two to 11, were murdered by Palestinian gunmen.
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New York Times
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| April 15, 2004 | - President Bush announced his support for Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip and his approval, "in light of new realities on the ground," for the idea that Israel will never withdraw from its larger settlements in the West Bank.
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New York Times
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| April 6, 2004 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel let it be known that he will no longer be held to his promise not to kill Yasir Arafat.
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Associated Press
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| March 28, 2004 | -
Israel's state prosecutor recommended that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon be indicted for taking bribes from a real-estate developer and submitted a draft indictment to the attorney general.
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Reuters
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| February 6, 2004 | -
Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in connection with a bribery investigation.
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New York Times
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| February 2, 2004 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel announced plans to evacuate 17 Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip. "I am working on the assumption that in the future there will be no Jews in Gaza," he said.
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Reuters
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| February 2, 2004 | -
Yasir Arafat expressed disbelief at Ariel Sharon's plan to remove 17 settlements from Gaza, right-wing politicians were outraged, and one political ally suggested that the prime minister was merely trying to distract attention from corruption scandals that could result in his indictment.
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Guardian, Ha'aretz
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| January 22, 2004 | - There was speculation that Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon might soon be indicted for taking bribes.
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New York Times
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| January 19, 2004 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is also the target of a corruption investigation, said that Israel might decide to change the route of the wall it is building around the West Bank but not because of any demands made by Palestinians, the United Nations, or the International Court of Justice.
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New York Times
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| October 31, 2003 | -
Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for seven hours as part of two corruption investigations.
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New York Times
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| August 2, 2003 | - In response to U.S. demands, Belgium voted to gut its own war-crimes law, passed in 1993, under which Belgian courts assumed jurisdiction over atrocities committed anywhere in the world; claims under the law had been filed against such Western leaders as Tony Blair and Ariel Sharon.
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New York Times
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| July 17, 2003 | -
Ariel Sharon, the prime minister of Israel, traveled to Norway but refused to visit Oslo.
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New York Times
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| July 2, 2003 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel and Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas of the Occupied Territories got together on their own initiative and shook hands publicly; Abbas expressed his wish to end suffering, death, and pain.
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New York Times
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| June 13, 2003 | -
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, ridiculed Palestinian leaders as "crybabies" and said that Abu Mazen, the new prime minister, was "a chick without feathers."
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Independent, Guardian
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| June 6, 2003 | - President Bush, Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, and King Abdullah II of Jordan stood outdoors together in the hot sun wearing suits and ties but were kept free of unsightly perspiration by tubes installed by White House operatives that blasted cold air from an ultra-quiet air conditioner that was hidden nearby.
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New York Times
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| June 4, 2003 | -
Sharon and Abbas read statements about the "road map" to peace that were largely written by American officials.
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New York Times
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| May 19, 2003 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon cancelled a meeting with George W. Bush in response to a new round of suicide attacks and restated his long-standing position that Israel will make peace with the Palestinians only after there is peace with the Palestinians.
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New York Times
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| February 26, 2002 | -
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that “the state of Israel is not collapsing.” A professor at the University of Maryland released a study showing that during the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians from 1995 to 2000, incidents of terrorism in the Middle East declined every year; by 1999 the region had the second-lowest level of such incidents in the world.
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| February 5, 2002 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said he wished he had “liquidated” Yasir Arafat in the 1980s when he had the chance. A state department official said “remarks like these can be unhelpful.”
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| December 4, 2001 | - Prime Minister Sharon “declared war on terror.” A paper in the scientific journal Human Immunology found that Jews and Palestinians have no significant genetic differences; after receiving complaints, the journal's editor repudiated the paper and sent letters to libraries asking them to rip out the offending pages.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Prime Minister Sharon said he wanted to see a million new Jewish immigrants, particularly from Argentina, France, and South Africa.
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| November 27, 2001 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was issued a summons to appear before a court in Belgium in a lawsuit stemming from his role in the 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon; Belgian law permits lawsuits concerning crimes against humanity and genocide no matter where the crimes occurred.
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| October 23, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated a Hamas leader while he was praying on his roof. “This is not the first and not the last,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared. A few days later a Palestinian
death squad assassinated Rehavan Zeevi, Israel's minister of tourism, who had been a strong advocate of “transferring” all Palestinians out of the occupied territories.
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| October 23, 2001 | - “Arafat has seven days to impose absolute quiet in the territories,” Sharon declared. “If not, we will go to war against him.”
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| September 25, 2001 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon vetoed talks with Yasir Arafat for the usual reasons.
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| September 18, 2001 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Colin Powell that Yasir Arafat was “our bin Laden.”
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| August 7, 2001 | - An Israeli
death squad assassinated two Hamas leaders along with six others, including two young boys (seven-year-old Bilal Abu Khader and his five-year-old brother, Ashraf) who happened to be walking by when the missiles exploded. “Today is a day of one of our most important successes,” said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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| July 10, 2001 | -
Ariel Sharon, the prime minister of Israel, was under investigation in Belgium for crimes against humanity committed during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
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| July 3, 2001 | - Secretary of State Colin Powell stood next to Yasir Arafat and endorsed the idea of international observers to help enforce a cease-fire with Israel; later, standing next to Ariel Sharon, Powell clarified his previous statement, which had seemed clear enough, and said he did not support “some outside group of forces coming in.” Powell's trip also included a visit to Jordan, where King Abdullah let him drive at the “king's speed limit” in his custom silver BMW convertible.
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| June 26, 2001 | - Minneapolis, hoping to boost tourism, was preparing to install a bronze statue of Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat in the air at the corner of Seventh Street and Nicollet Avenue, just like on TV. “Tossing the hat inspired so many women,” Mayor Sharon Sayles-Belton told a reporter. “It showed us we're capable. We're bold. And we're cute.”
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was angry about a fact-finding mission led by former senator George Mitchell; he said that allowing such an investigation into the causes of the recent Intifada was an “historic mistake” because “no one has the right, no one, to put Israel on trial before the world.” A Palestinian
sniper shot and killed a ten-month-old Israeli girl in Hebron as she lay in her stroller; Israeli troops then shelled a nearby Palestinian neighborhood and other targets, including Yasir Arafat's home.
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| March 13, 2001 | - The new Israeli government of national unity under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was preparing to introduce legislation that would legalize the torture of Palestinian prisoners; such torture was legal in Israel until 1984, and until 1999, Shin Bet, the domestic security service, was allowed to use “moderate physical pressure” during interrogations.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
Hamas announced a new campaign of suicide bombings to welcome Ariel Sharon's new government.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Ehud Barak, the Israeli prime minister who lost the recent election to Ariel Sharon, a known war criminal, resigned from politics, then agreed to be Sharon's defense minister in a government of national unity, then resigned from politics again.
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| February 13, 2001 | -
Ariel Sharon, a known war criminal, was elected prime minister of Israel; Sharon declared that the peace process was dead and that the Palestinians must submit to Israeli domination before negotiations could resume.
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| November 7, 2000 | - Dozens of Minneapolis residents received letters bearing the name of Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton telling them that they were infected with AIDS; the letters were fake.
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| October 31, 2000 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called “timeout” and decided to make peace with Ariel Sharon, the right-wing opposition leader, instead of with the Palestinians.
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| October 10, 2000 | - The Mid-East peace process continued as Israeli soldiers killed 84 Palestinians, including over a dozen children, in violence that followed a visit to the Dome of the Rock by Likud leader Ariel Sharon; two Israeli soldiers and two settlers were killed in the fighting.
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