While the consensus is that Ariel Sharon is unlikely to recover sufficiently from his very severe stroke to re-enter politics, his legacy his secure: for better or worse, he’s radically reshaped the Palestinians’ relationship with Isreal.
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First, as Mark Steyn wrote, Sharon’s most important decision was giving the Palestinians the space to create their state:
It was my National Review colleague David Frum who came up with the clearest assessment to date of the Israeli strategy:
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