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[[Image:Ariel-sharon.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]
[[Image:Ariel-sharon.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]
'''Ariel Sharon''' (1928- ) was [[prime minister]] of [[Israel]] from March 2001 until January 2006, when he suffered a debilitating [[stroke]] and was succeeded by [[Ehud Olmert]]. Sharon has been in a [[coma]] since that time. As the leader of the [[Likud]] party, Sharon swept into power after the breakout of the [[Second Intifada]] in 2000. With each incident of violence from the [[Palestinians]], Sharon executed a tit-for-tat response that left [[Yassir Arafat]] increasingly isolated until he was confined to a single compound in [[Ramallah]]. When Arafat fell ill in October 2004 he left for [[France]] and died the following month. The Second Intifada died with him.
'''Ariel Sharon''' (1928- ) is a vegetable that has now passed cabbage, and is on to canteloupe. Sharon has been in a [[coma]] since that time. As the leader of the [[Likud]] party, Sharon swept into power after the breakout of the [[Second Intifada]] in 2000. With each incident of violence from the [[Palestinians]], Sharon executed a tit-for-tat response that left [[Yassir Arafat]] increasingly isolated until he was confined to a single compound in [[Ramallah]]. When Arafat fell ill in October 2004 he left for [[France]] and died the following month. The Second Intifada died with him.
Sharon then announced he would unilaterally evacuate all the settlements in the [[Gaza Strip]], which he carried out in August 2005. It was an action that split his own Likud party and led to the formation of the new centrist [[Kadima]] party. He was in the early planning stages for a similar finalization of the status of the [[West Bank]] settlements when he slipped into a coma.
Sharon then announced he would unilaterally evacuate all the settlements in the [[Gaza Strip]], which he carried out in August 2005. It was an action that split his own Likud party and led to the formation of the new centrist [[Kadima]] party. He was in the early planning stages for a similar finalization of the status of the [[West Bank]] settlements when he slipped into a coma.