massacres of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon, in 1982.
Sabra and Shatila did not prevent him being elected Prime Minister in 2001, having become Likud s leader in 2000. It is arguable that his bloody history served as a boon for his election. In Israel, Sharon had the aura of the Sabra , in that he was born in Palestine (which Zionists call Eretz Israel ), and was also involved in agriculture. His person was thus a kind of bridging between the more urban-style Likud and the more rural-style Labor. Although he was not religious as such, his zeal for overtaking Palestine had a religious-fundamentalist nature. In 1998 he said, as Foreign Minister:
Israel just got the most rightwing Prime Minister ever, and liberal Zionists celebrate
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