As commander of the notorious Unit 101, Sharon led attacks on Palestinian villages in which women and children were killed. The massacre in the West Bank village of Qibya, on October 14, 1953, was perhaps the most notorious. His troops blew up 45 houses and 69 Palestinian civilians — about half of them women and children — were killed. — The Electronic Intifada
No one has ever been tried for the massacre, but an official Israeli commission of inquiry found that Israel's defense minister at the time, Ariel Sharon, "bears personal responsibility" as well as "indirect responsibility." It was Sharon, after all, who had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to invade Beirut and surround the camps. ... Like Pinochet and other war criminals, Sharon and his Phalangist underlings should be brought to book; if they can successfully evade justice, then it will give heart to killers everywhere. — Marking a Massacre, The Nation
Either because of alternative transliterations from Hebrew/Arabic/Cyrillic into English
or for some other reason, this person is also known by the following names:
Ariel Scheinerman
Arik Sharon
Ariel Scheinerman (1928-), born in Kfar Malal, a co-operative farming settlement 15 miles north-east of Tel-Aviv on the coastal Plain of Sharon, joined the Haganah at the age of 14. Three years later, in the summer of 1945, he undertook a squad leader course in a Negev kibbutz, before enrolling in the British-controlled Jewish Settlement Police. In late 1947, he was again active in the Haganah, participating in a number of raids on Arab targets and quickly rising to become a platoon leader. In late May 1948, during the offensive against Latrun, his platoon, which belonged to the Alexandroni Brigade (the brigade which committed the massacre in Tantura), was attached to the 7th Brigade which led the assault. Sharon was wounded during the assault ... [more will be provided here on the career of a man who later became one the major war criminals on the 20th century]
Gilad and Omri Sharon are his sons.
Ariel Sharon's ranch is located between Kibbutz Ruhama and Sderot.
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Events involving Ariel Sharon:- Sharon murders three women from the village of Qatana (2 Aug 1953)
- Israeli Unit 101 commit massacre at al-Bureij refugee camp (28 Aug 1953)
- Massacre in Qibya (14 Oct 1953)
- Israel attack on Egyptian base in Gaza (Mivtza Hetz Shahor = Operation Black Arrow) (28 Feb 1955)
- Israel atttacks Syria (11 Dec 1955)
- Israeli generals meet ministers in HaKirya military compound to discuss whether to go to war (2 Jun 1967)
- Menachem Begin shows Sinai withdrawal plan to ministerial security committee (13 Dec 1977)
- Installation of Israeli Civil Administration in West Bank (1 Nov 1981)
- Massacre at Sabra and Chatila (16 Sep 1982)
- Ariel Sharon loses libel suit against TIME magazine over Sabra and Shatila (24 Jan 1984)
- Sharon visits al-Haram as-Sharif with a massive armed bodyguard — over 1,000 strong (28 Sep 2000)
- 2001 Israeli general election (6 Feb 2001)
- Ariel Sharon breaks Israeli contact with Yasser Arafat (13 Dec 2001)
- Sharon addresses UN General Assembly (15 Sep 2005)
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FOTO: "the notorious Unit 101"
Ariel "Arik" Sharon (smiling on left) with Moshe Dayan and members of his notorious "anti-terror" Unit 101 (1953-56) which committed a number of atrocities such as the Qibya Massacre of October 1953 in which 69 Palestinians were killed, many whose houses were blown up over their heads. Forty-five houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed. Sharon, a well known terrorist, became Israel's prime minister in 2001.
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