Three Takes on Ariel Sharon From: The Jerusalem Report | Date: February 6, 2006| Author: | Copyright 2006 The Jerusalem Report. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Through a military and political career lasting nearly six decades, Ariel Sharon, a maverick army commander turned hard-line rightist turned pragmatic centrist, remained one of Israel's most polarizing figures. Three prominent figures who encountered him over the years and who, like many other Israelis, alternately admired and abhorred him, consider his politics, personality and the momentous change of direction he undertook as prime minister.

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