Comments on: Confusion Reigns on Sharon’s Condition

By: josh

josh — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:10:22 +0000

Apparently, someone with inside information had passed information that Sharon is virtually brain dead. Another source is saying that Sharon is definitely dead, though I’m not sure if he means physically, or politically, which was a given that first night anyway.

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:44:37 +0000

Well, it’s good to know that Rav Ovadiah took his foot out of his mouth long enough to say something responsible.

What is up with your site, ck? I linked over here from No Pasaran, and Jewlicious came up instantly. When I log on straight, it takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R.

By: ernest

ernest — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:25:09 +0000

I am so sorry to hear about this. Hope everything will be alright.

By: Ben-David

Ben-David — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:02:46 +0000

Ephraim wrote:

I guess he (Pat Robertson) beat Ovadiah Yosef to the punch.
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… in fact, Rav Ovadiah immediately issued a public statement calling for recital of psalms and prayers for Sharon’s recovery.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:46:48 +0000

It’s weird. In a way, I didn’t really think he could die. I mean, intellectually I did, and to some degree it worried me, but still…who can kill Arik? I don’t know. It sucks.

By: laya

laya — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:28:34 +0000

This whole thing is really tragic in an almost epic way. For the first time in years there was active momentum towards a tangible solution, and I was looking forward to seeing him through to the end of his plans. I’m really upset and a little bit angry that it’s all changed now.

You just can’t be that old, that out of shape and that important. It’s a bad combo.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:59:03 +0000

It seems that even if Sharon survives, he will be a shell of who he was.

haaretz.com/ha...

I am sad for him and his family. I am also sad because of what we all have lost in losing perhaps the last member of his generation and perhaps any generation who could truly push the process of locking up Israel’s borders and finding means to a peaceful resolution with the Arabs.

By: Ephraim

Ephraim — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:06:35 +0000

Pat Robertson already basically said “See what happens when you try to dismember G-d’s holy land? Rabin got shot and Sharon had a stroke. You figure it out.”

I guess he beat Ovadiah Yosef to the punch.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:51:45 +0000

I have a feeling there are also some Jews, not to mention Muslims who are also claiming this is divine retribution.

I’m trying to focus on what the dietitians are saying. Let’s face it, the old guy may be a masterly politician and a pretty good soldier, but he ate himself into this situation. What’s ironic is that the operation was supposed to be today, so the entire course of history will be changed because of this stroke coming a day too soon.

By: david

david — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:34:19 +0000

Well, it never ceases to amaze me what America’s evangelical commnity has done in response to this. Haaretz is reporting that Pat Robertson is essentially spinning this situation as Sharon’s punishment for “Dividing my Land” – Direct Quote from Robertson. Apparently by giving back Gaza, there isn’t enough room to fit all the Jews into the Holy Land so the messiah can come. So wonderful to see that Robertson is demonstrative of the kind, christian soul that doesn’t wish death on anyone.

and on a side note, Ahmadinejad is up to his old hijinks with inflammatory speech…see the article as well.

By: esther

esther — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:35:11 +0000

I should know better than to report something from them…well, I know now. Updates to come as we receive them.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:25:27 +0000

I got the same email, the Israel Resource News Agency is not something one should really lead on, it was a rumor, they expanded a rumor, they didn’t quote their source.

It’s pathetic reporting.

I suspect there is a political motive behind what they posted.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:06:33 +0000

David Bedein who heads the IRNA is an incredible investigative reporter, breaking scoops that the other Israeli media likes to ignore. I wonder why he would release that.

Anyway, without a miracle, Sharon is not going back to work, ever. Most people know an uncle or grandparent who’s gone through this, even ‘mild strokes’. We don’t need no talking heads telling us the situation since we know that very few recover fully, most partially damaged permanently, and the others never regain consciousness. So in effect, Sharon as we knew him, AKA the prime minister, is off the political scene and won’t run in the next elections.

On the other hand, if he does miraculously recover, then A) something is fishy, B) start praying hard, this guy might be mashiach ben yosef after all.

Anyway, I got flashbacks to Arafat’s long hospital stay and the endless denials of his passing.

By: Yehuda

Yehuda — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:24:15 +0000

Israeli Resource News Agency
israelbehindth...
Looks faily unsophisticated.

Sidenote: the IRNA share their abbreviation with the Islamic Republic News Agency

Talk amongst yourselves.

By: SnoopyTheGoon

SnoopyTheGoon — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:48:34 +0000

WTF is that “Israel Resource News Agency”?

By: themiddle

themiddle — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:21:22 +0000

Man, I had a heart attack reading this just now. As of this moment, both JPost and Ha’aretz are reporting that he’s stable.

By: Jerad

Jerad — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:21:47 +0000

I just read at JPost that hospital officials are denying rumours of Sharon’s death, so hopefully it’s not true after all.

By: shtreimel

shtreimel — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:15:08 +0000

Can’t find this anywhere on the ‘net.