RT NewsThe iconic but controversial former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has died after his medical condition significantly deteriorated, his son confirmed to the media.
The 85-year-old politician died in Tel Aviv’s Tel Hashomer hospital, also known as the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, where he had been in a coma since January 2006 after suffering a stroke and brain hemorrhage.
For nearly eight years Sharon was on respiratory life support, occasionally opening his eyes and moving fingers. He was supported by fluids through a feeding tube.
Signs that his health was failing started coming shortly before the New Year, with a spokesman for the hospital reporting deterioration in Sharon’s medical condition. The ex-PM was suffering from “serious kidney problems” after undergoing surgery, army radio said.
News website Ynet quoted medical sources as saying Sharon was taken into intensive care a month ago.
“We are defining his condition as critical, and there is definitely a threat to his life,” Zeev Rotstein, director of the Sheba Medical Center, told reporters. “The feeling of everyone … is that this decline is very serious.”
In September, Sharon underwent surgery to correct his intravenous feeding system.
Last January, neurological MRI scans revealed significant brain activity in the former PM’s brain. Medical staff recorded a positive response to family pictures, a recording of his son’s voice and human touch.
Sharon, one of Israel’s most famous generals, was an iconic figure of his time, yet some of his policies remain controversial to this day.
As a military commander, Sharon sometimes disobeyed orders and followed bold and often risky tactics in battle. As a politician he was known as “the bulldozer,” a man capable of getting things done.
Rising from the rank of paratrooper to Defense Minister, Sharon played a prominent part in several of Israel’s armed conflicts – the 1948 War of Independence, the 1956 Suez War, the Six-Day War of 1967, the War of Attrition and the Yom-Kippur War of 1973 and the 1982 Lebanon War.
By 1967, his military genius in the Six-Day War earned him the name of “The King of Israel” and “The Lion of God” with the Israeli public.
Sharon resigned as a Defense Minister in 1983 after a commission of inquiry found him personally liable for failing to prevent the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatilla camps by Christian Phalangists.
After retiring from the army, Sharon joined and later led the Likud party, leaving it in 2005 to form the new Kadima party.
A military hawk, he was Israel’s prominent hard-liner when he was elected prime minister in 2001.
In mid-2005 he ended 38 years of military control of the Gaza Strip after directing a unilateral withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from the territory, a shock for those who supported Sharon’s championing of the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Dear Ariel Sharon,
You may rot in hell forever you piece of human garbage.
JD – US Marines – May this perfidious filth NOT ever rest in peace!
I’m sure that soon, the MSM will be telling everyone about what a great guy Sharon was and how he did so many great things for everybody and I’ll will have to be sick with the dry heaves when I hear them say it.
The MSM is indeed already canonizing the old monster. I’ll tell you what makes me sick is the fact that we Americans, who know what this low life piece of trash was, are now going to pay millions of dollars for Joe Biden to fly over to Israel to pay homage to his corpse.
Maybe we will get lucky and Israel will shoot his plane down.
Fat chance.
The odds of that happening would be like winning the Powerball.
Twice in a row.
What took so long! I hope the tortured/murdered Palestinians are
waiting for him in the After-Life. On his way to Hell, the Palestinians
can have a little fun.
Unfortunately there’s more where he came from.Many of them lobbying congress and writing our laws.
HELL DOTH BURN BRIGHTLY WITH THE ADDITION OF THESE WICKED MEN!.
GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE “BUTCHER OF PALESTINE”.
Party at my house! I knew it was a good day when I woke up for some reason…this pretty much explains it!
OUTSTANDING!!!
@ 12:13 #1 I forgot the reply button 😐 . Yes out standing for sure #1, now though they better pack him in garlic and drive a stake though that black heart. 😯 😉 What do ya think #1 😉
I think I’ll have to smoke a fatty to celebrate. That’s what I think, digger.
Maybe two. Very special occasion, you know. 😀
I toast you #1 with a quart of Jimmy Johnson`s Mid night Moon cranberry moon shine” and I also Raise – eve as I am typing to ya #1 – a deep drawn coughing toke 😆 😆 😆 😯 LOL 😎 Yes #1 😉
Good one with the bulging eyes at the end, digger. RLMAO! 😀
😯 😎
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Smoke ’em if you got ’em, Gentlemen! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Well Geeze Millard, you know me – when I say that I will toast a Midnight moon and smoke a bowl that I will honor that of what I say as as i always say – yes I did do as I say 😆 : cool : you know me 😉
Sharon dies? YAHOOO!!!!!! That’s two! (Edgar M. Bronfman being the other one) I guess it’s not a good year to be a Zionist Jew. Payback’s a bitch when you have the wrath of God on your ass.
Yes NC 😉 , but ya see though NC is that them monsters have no soul or heart. They are actually evil devils to say the least
They say the reaper rolls in 3’s!……….can we get so lucky/blessed that some how nut-n-yahoo kicks off as well???…………. oh say it aint so momma!
I guess he didn’t get qualified for Kissinger’s medical plan of “life extension technologies”.
HaHaha funny NC 😆
let the end times prophecies start.
Now for cheney, bush, rumsfeld, obama, hell every american politician.
Don’t forget about our poor, unfortunate bankers and their unfulfilled needs. (A rope around their necks.)
Ya mean a columbian neck tie for them, you know me Millard – a neck tie isn`t a neck tie unless it is a columbian neck tie. 😯 😎 H , a columbian neck tie doesn`t need a rope in other words 😐
I would rather that his spirit stay imprisoned in that non responsive body another 10 years so he can suffer more.
Here is another one that cleansed the Earth. Thank God.
http://expeltheparasite.com/2014/01/12/another-one-bites-the-dust/
How come there is comment moderation? I have not seen this before.
Are you referring to us?
Hi Henry,
Yes. The last comment with an embedded website I posted had
“comment moderation” above the comment. Have never seen
this before on your site so was just wondering.
Thank you for responding.
Leita
One less asshole zionist on earth today. May you rot in hell.