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Mark Fairchild April 11, 2002
     
What do you think about the following remarks by Ariel Sharon? Source: "About The Soft And The Delicate," By Amos Oz, in Davar, Dec. 17, 1982] LET THEM CALL ISRAEL A "JUDEO-NAZI STATE", AND MAD, TOO, ARIEL SHARON TOLD ISRAELI DAILY {DAVAR} IN DEC. 1982. Interviewed a few months after his massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon, Sharon defended the massacre with a brutal Hobbesian, Nazi rant: "Call Israel by any name you like, call it a Judeo-Nazi state as does Liebowitz. Why not? Better a live Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint.... History teaches us that he who won't kill will be killed by others. That is an iron law.... Even if you will prove to me that we have not achieved and will not achieve any of our aims in Lebanon, that we will neither create a friendly regime in Lebanon nor destroy the Syrians or even the PLO, even then I don't care. It was still worth it.... We shall start another war, kill and destroy more and more, until they will have had enough. "And do you know why it is all worth it? Because it seems that this war has made us more unpopular among the so-called civilised world. We'll hear no more of that nonsense about the unique Jewish morality, the moral lessons of the Holocaust or about the Jews who were supposed to have emerged from the gas chambers pure and virtuous.... "Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear me instead of feeling sorry for me. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear my madness instead of admiring my nobility. Thank God for that. Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a wild country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go crazy if one of our children is murdered -- just one! That we might go wild and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East!... Let them be aware in Washington, Moscow, Damascus, and China that if one of our ambassadors is shot, or even a consul or the most junior embassy official, we might start World War Three just like that!"
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