JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed to hospital on Wednesday after suffering a major stroke and a senior source said he feared there may be no chance of recovery from a brain hemorrhage.
Sharon, a hefty 77-year-old ex-general, has for decades been a key figure in shaping the Middle East.
He has dominated the political stage in the Jewish state and was widely expected to win re-election in March on a platform of ending conflict with the Palestinians.
Sharon’s prime ministerial powers were transferred temporarily to his deputy, Ehud Olmert, cabinet secretary Yisrael Maimon told reporters outside Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem.
“The diagnosis is a significant stroke. The prime minister has been anesthetized and is on a breathing device,” Hadassah chief Shlomo Mor-Yosef said.
He said Sharon suffered a brain hemorrhage and would undergo an operation immediately to try to stop the bleeding.
“It looks very bad. I don’t know if he will recover,” said one senior political source.
Sharon is very much a one-man show and if he had to leave the scene it would inevitably mean major political upheaval. Recent polls have not shown Olmert to be seen as a long term successor.
The Israeli leader, who orchestrated a pullout from the Gaza Strip last September to end 38 years of occupation, that raised hopes for Middle East peace, suffered what doctors described as a mild stroke on December 18.
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You guys do realize, I am sure, that the person who may replace Sharon, can be much much worse for Palestinians. Driving a car by just looking at the rear-view mirror can be fatally dangerous.
Re: Sharon butcher of sabra and shatilla almost dead!
So now Sharon is responsible for the massacres in the Palestinian camps of Shabra and Shatila? During the civil war in Lebanon between christians and muslims, when the PLO bombed the office of the Christian militia leader who was also the son of the founder of that group, the Christians reacted by attacking the Palestinians in Shabra and Shatila. Ak are you a student of the Nazi method of repeating a lie until it sticks.
By the way eating too many burgers have taken a toll on that old guy.
Re: Sharon butcher of sabra and shatilla almost dead!
you are right as long as the squatter state of israeli exists it will nothing but a problem in the middle east for the muslims in particular, however when enemies like these are dead it is like a day of eid almost!
Re: Sharon butcher of sabra and shatilla almost dead!
As advocate and gupshup representative for fictional khilafahland, you do your brothers proud and show us all the potential of such a mighty and righteous state.
Re: Sharon butcher of sabra and shatilla almost dead!
By the way eating too many burgers have taken a toll on that old guy.
IDF surrounded the camp and did nothing (actually indirectly supported SLA) when SLA went and massacred the unarmed Palestineans!
Offcourse you dumb rural can't see it that SLA couldn't even live in lebanon (its home country you say?) when Israel withdrew and IDF had to take these people with them as well (settle them in houses build by the Israeli government!).
Re: Sharon butcher of sabra and shatilla almost dead!
I question your following of Islam, where is the tolerance and forgiveness that we preach 24/7/365.
Shalom
It is this very tolerance and forgiveness that has degraded the value of a muslim life, such that millions of muslims would be wiped off the face of the earth and we would hardly miss a sleep.
May be your religion teaches tolerance and forgiveness 24/7 even to the Imams of Kufr, but not mine. Mine teaches, in the words of Malcolm X, if someone lays his hand on you, you send him straight to the cemetry.
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He is the man of peace, if it wasn't for him..then we weren't leaving from Gaza. Israel, in our first time in a history we've made so many opposition in a country.. Sharon, God bless you.
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May be **your **religion teaches tolerance and forgiveness 24/7 even to the Imams of Kufr, but not mine. **Mine **teaches, in the words of Malcolm X, if someone lays his hand on you, you send him straight to the cemetry.
Sharabi Bhai,
I am extremely sorry if I touched a Raw nerve, but if that is your stance, specially if you think that MY religion and YOURS is different, Than unfortunately, I dont think we can even communicate.
