Died. The decorated exgeneral and controversial leader left a mark on the middle east. After a stroke and eight years in a coma, sharon passed away in a tel aviv hospital at the age of 85. Nick is in jerusalem and joins us now live. Nick, in a very telling statement, one of sharons sons told reporters outside of the tel aviv hospital that he decided to go when he decided to go. Sharon is widely regarded as doing things on his time and in his terms. Why exactly was he so polarizing, and why is his legacy so complex . Reporter yeah, morgan, just to give you a sense, what a lot of people called sharon was king ark after his original first name. A lot called him a murderer and bulldozer. There was nobody here who didnt care about his legacy and about the things he did not only in israel but an entire region and not only over the last few years but for the last half century. It was a moment that defined everything he stood for. In 2000 in jerusalem, ariel sharon walked through the mra. And
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