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Myth as a stepping stone TOI-Billboard,
January 6, 2006
The Other Israel's weekly email updates Sharon is still 'fighting for his life' between operation room and intensive care, but the mythmaking is already going on at full speed. The overwhelming majority of Israeli commentators describe Ariel Sharon as the tragic Greek hero stricken by fate while only halfway with what should have been the apotheosis of his biography: the man of war ultimately achieving peace. He is compared with Ben Gurion and with that other mythical former general, the murdered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Some call Ariel Sharon the Moses of our times, who during 40 years led his people through the desert - to being himself deprived of setting foot in the promised land. The myth of Sharon Peacemaker actually already started from the moment of the disengagement of Gaza. We were warning 'naive' fellow peace activists not to fall into the trap set out for them by Sharon, who - as we are still convinced - intended only to hand some crumbs of the West Bank tor the Palestinians, to call it their state, shattered pieces connected with easily controlled bridges or tunnels to each other and, maybe in the end, also to the Gaza Strip; nothing more. But now it seems the political role of Sharon himself is over, and what remains are the illusions of the followers of this new Kadima Party. The myth will have its impact on how this new party will develop - more than the historical Sharon. The historical Sharon may soon become the pale shadow of his myth. And the myth expresses a deep wish of the Israeli mainstream: to follow the same leaders whom they always trusted, and to arrive at peace without having to reinterpet everything they have always believed in. The Sharon myth may work as a stepping stone towards the ripening of public opinion. We collected a variety of comments, mythmaking and anti-mythmaking, articles which we like as well as some which we don't like but which give part of the Sharon legacy Israelis will be living with. But first some action news. This week, a real breakthrough and success of the nonviolent protest at Bil'in, with Akiva Eldar and the Ha'aretz pages an important factor: Documents reveal illegal West Bank
building project The real organized
crime Saving the State from
itself Peace Now petitions court to halt Modi'in
Illit construction See also: Jan. 1, 2006:
Hanukka candles in Bil'in Friday Jan 6, Bil'in
action: Occupation refuser Uri
Natan is in the middle of a long-drawn process of 'serial
imprisonment' like others before him. Tuesday, Jan. 3, he was
sentenced to another 14 days. You can send him support mail
to: Uri Natan, military ID 6870739,
military mail 02507, IDF Our choice of 'end of the Sharon era' comments: An illusion has now been
cruelly shattered: For the sake of our
future, There is no other way. No one but
ourselves Gush Shalom's Friday ad in Haaretz A legacy lacking //
Akiva Eldar End of infancy //
Ofer Shelah The strong man //
David Grossman From muscle to
mystery // Amos Oz End of the Sharon
era, but the damage has been done // Daniel Breslau Napoleon, made in Israel //
Uri Avnery Egyptian Chief of
Staff remembers The journey to Gaza
// Gideon Levy Good-bye, giants of 1948 // Yoel
Marcus
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