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Title: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently incapacitated
Post by: kane544 on April 03, 2006, 06:43:41 am
Your Opinion if you have one?
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Turambar on April 03, 2006, 07:15:21 am
bastard got what he deserved

i don't believe pat robertson's theory, but karma works just fine
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: FireCrack on April 03, 2006, 07:26:25 am
Eh?
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Sandwich on April 03, 2006, 03:56:01 pm
I'm not surprised. From what I understand, the kind of procedures he had were invasive enough that it's impossible to come out of them without serious brain damage.

Now, if he comes out of his coma completely fine and healed, I'll start humming the theme song to "Anti-Christ" everywhere. :nervous: :p :doubt:
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently incapacitated
Post by: Scuddie on April 03, 2006, 05:54:30 pm
Really, does anyone care?
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: vyper on April 03, 2006, 06:02:34 pm
Who exactly is leading Israel now?
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Unknown Target on April 03, 2006, 06:23:42 pm
Serves him right for eating so goddamn much. The guy was like five foot five and five hundred pounds.
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Turnsky on April 03, 2006, 06:54:13 pm
Serves him right for eating so goddamn much. The guy was like five foot five and five hundred pounds.

"that's no moon, that's israeli president sharon!" :p
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Rictor on April 03, 2006, 07:07:52 pm
Who exactly is leading Israel now?

Ehud Olmert. It's pretty amazing. Sharon created Kadima just a few weeks before he went into a coma, and yet they won the recent election, ahead of both of Israel's established parties. I don't think the party is even 6 months old, and they swept to power. Actually, Likud did terribly, coming behind some no-names (well, internationally) like the Russian-Israeli citizens bloc. Seems like Sharon definitely knew what he was doing when he left Likud and created Kadima.

I'm not surprised. From what I understand, the kind of procedures he had were invasive enough that it's impossible to come out of them without serious brain damage.

Now, if he comes out of his coma completely fine and healed, I'll start humming the theme song to "Anti-Christ" everywhere. :nervous: :p :doubt:
Sharon wakes up and starts building the Third Temple.  :nervous: :nervous:
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Flipside on April 03, 2006, 07:11:33 pm
Well, like most leaders he did good things and bad things in his life, lots of people care that Sharon is out of power, yet look how little notice we take of the fact that Mugabe is still in power. Difference is, Sharon lives somewhere that we are all interested in, seems we lost a lot of interest in Mugabe once we'd got our own people out....

I wouldn't wish the kind of surgery Sharon had on anyone, but it was good to hear that a more moderate party got in instead of Likud, else the conflict would never stand a chance of winding down.
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Sandwich on April 03, 2006, 11:05:45 pm
FYI, many people around here view Olmert as a disaster for Israel. TBH I don't know exactly/specifically why, aside from my differing political views, but just thought I'd bring that up.
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently incapacitated
Post by: Rictor on April 03, 2006, 11:18:16 pm
Well, I'de venture a guess that it has to do with his plans to pull a Gaza 2.0, which probably doesn't sit well with the settlers, right-wingers and so on. Though if Likud formed an alliance with the various religious, pro-settlement and right-wing parties, it could hold a majority in the Knesset, no? Thought it seems to me that if a newborn Kadima wins an election ahead of Labour and Likud on a platform of disengagement, that's got to have significant popular support, right?
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: aldo_14 on April 04, 2006, 03:29:31 am
Well, I'de venture a guess that it has to do with his plans to pull a Gaza 2.0, which probably doesn't sit well with the settlers, right-wingers and so on. Though if Likud formed an alliance with the various religious, pro-settlement and right-wing parties, it could hold a majority in the Knesset, no? Thought it seems to me that if a newborn Kadima wins an election ahead of Labour and Likud on a platform of disengagement, that's got to have significant popular support, right?

Kadima won something like 28 seats (ahead of 20 and out of about 150-?) in one (if not the) of the lowest turnout elections in history, though.

My guess would be that the Israelis don't see much hope for actual peace from any party now (due to Hamas being elected in the PTs), so it's hard to see a point in voting when the likelihood is 4 years or so more of terrorist attacks and tit-for-tat violence.
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Grug on April 04, 2006, 03:33:50 am
How depressing...
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: aldo_14 on April 04, 2006, 03:37:05 am
How depressing...

It is.  Even my youthful optimism and hope of altruistic compromise (or, y'know, not blowing the **** out of each other every 5 minutes) is giving way.  Few years and i'll probably arrive at the 'nuke them all and make some nice green-glowing sculptures from the glass' stage.
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Grug on April 04, 2006, 03:40:42 am
Indeed.
Human nature I guess. Which isn't all that too encouraging either. =/

Everybody just needs pie. If we all had pie, there wouldn't be any problems in the world. :nod:
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: aldo_14 on April 04, 2006, 04:28:41 am
Indeed.
Human nature I guess. Which isn't all that too encouraging either. =/

Everybody just needs pie. If we all had pie, there wouldn't be any problems in the world. :nod:

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Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Grug on April 04, 2006, 04:37:11 am
:lol:
Those monkeys do good work. :p
RoFLs.
Title: Re: Israel's Sharon to be declared 'permanently in
Post by: Sandwich on April 04, 2006, 03:19:13 pm
Work in those bizarre British meat pies somehow. ;) :yes: