Ariel Sharon and fate

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It was just announced that Ariel Sharon had a major Stroke and has brain hemorrhaging, most likely from the blood thinners he was taking. It seems coincidental that yesterday I devoted my post to his courage in forming another party that was away from the Right Wing Likud party, and he was expected to win the elections scheduled for March in Israel.

It seems to me every time in my lifetime there appears to be a hope that things will change, some major event happens threatening the hope. I remember Kennedy, both John and Robert, Martin Luther King, Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin, Sadat of Egypt, and the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan which failed thank God.

Let's all hope and pray that Sharon makes it through this latest medical crisis. The Middle East Road map that was proposed by President Bush with a 2 State solution, was embraced by Sharon. The idea of a future Palestinian State hangs in the balance. If not Sharon, then who? It is amazing that 2 weeks ago when Sharon had his first stroke, they didn't even have a succession plan in the event Sharon was too sick or worse, died. Since that stroke on Dec. 18th, they set up a succession plan, thank God.