| SHARON THE BUTCHER |
| Saddam Hussein denied his crimes against humanity and held dictatorial power in Iraq with vicious force. Ariel Sharon brags of his crimes against humanity and has now been twice elected leader of the so-called 'democratic' Jewish State of Israel. In 1942, at the age of 14, Ariel Scheinerman (aka Ariel Sharon) joined the terrorist organization Haganah. One of the most infamous acts of the Haganah was the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem killing 92 British and Palestinian men, women and children. Between December 1947 and February 1948, the Haganah conducted a series of 'drive-by' shootings and bombings of marketplaces and cafes killing 176 innocent civilians. During Israel's war of expansion in 1948-49, Ariel Sharon was attached to the Alexandroni Brigade. Among various massacres of civilians this unit committed was that at Tantura. In the 1950s, as head of the 'Commando' Unit 101, Sharon personally led several terrorist attacks against civilians in the (then Jordanian protected) West Bank. Most notorious was the 1953 attack against the Palestinian village of Qibya (Kibya). Seven hundred Israeli troops attacked the undefended village with mortars, machine guns, rifles and explosives. Forty-two homes, the school and the mosque of the village were dynamited. Every man, woman and child in the village was executed; in all, 75 innocent civilians were murdered. Sharon's terrorists even attacked the cattle, killing 22 cows. Sharon's orders to his troops were published in Israeli newspapers in 1994. "Objective: to attack the village of Kibiya, occupy it and cause maximal damage to life and property." Haim Hanegbi of the Israeli anti-Occupation group, Gush Shalom, referred to the order in 2002 as "a concrete case of a war crime." In a 1956 interview with Israeli General Ouze Merham, Sharon expressed his views of Palestinians thusly: "I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956). I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do....I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child's existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger." In the late 1950s, Sharon's field of operation shifted to Gaza and the Sinai. He has been linked to the execution of Egyptian POWs and the murder of 49 Sudanese civilians in a quarry in the Sinai. Israelis "AFFECTIONATELY"(!) refer to Sharon as 'Bulldozer.' He got the nickname by ordering the demolition of thousands of homes in Israeli-occupied Gaza in the 1970s. In a single month in 1971, his troops razed over 2,000 homes in Gaza. On September 15, 1982, then Minister of Defense Sharon met with leaders of the Lebanese Phalange militia. On September 16, 1982, the Israeli Army, surrounding the UN Palestinian refugee camps of Shatilla and Sabra, allowed several hundred armed Phalange militants into the camps. The Israel Army then blocked the exits of the camps and after dark illuminated them with search lights and flares. After the Phalange left 60 hours later on the 18th, Israeli bulldozers buried many of the dead in mass graves. The International Red Cross says that more than 2,000 unarmed men, women and children were murdered. An Israeli investigation committee even issued a report that led to Sharon being removed from his Defense position due to his responsibility in the massacre (he became a 'Minister without Portfolio' and led the drive to build settlement compounds in Occupied Palestine!). In the past 55 years over 100,000 Palestinian CIVILIANS have been killed by Israelis. It is estimated that over 1/3 were "cleansed" in operations in which Sharon was involved. [Qibiya (1953), Al-Bureij, Operation Kinneret (1955), the Mitla Pass, Sinai, Qalqilya (1956), Rafah, Gaza, the N. border (1960s), Sabra, Shatilla, Lebanon(1980s)...] And then there is Sharon's continuing assaults as Prime Minister upon the Palestinian people. Remember Jenin (yes--a Massacre); the execution of the Bell Ringer of the Church of the Nativity; the firing of missiles against apartment buildings in Gaza (the most densely populated place on Earth); the murder of HUNDREDS of Palestinian children; more settlements, more bulldozing; the murder of American Peace Activist Rachael Corrie; the assassination of UN official Ian Hook; attacks on ambulances, schools, hospitals, medical personnel, journalists, olive trees... Sharon the Terrorist...Bush's "Man of Peace." This page is maintained by Dane Coefer, American. |