Ariel Sharon Quotes
When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.
Sharon, Ariel. Quoted in Landau, David. Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon. Knopf, 2014.
Many Arabs remained in Israel and played an important part in building the modern state. While the promise of full citizenship with representation and participation was kept, there developed a differential amount of support for social services that were administered by religious authorities whereby Arabs had less government money spent on them per capita than the Jews did. In that case they have become second class citizens, not envisioned by the Israeli founders. Nonetheless, the Arabs who are Israeli citizens, have the most freedom of Muslims in any Arab country by far. Their health care is much better, average income from work is greater and unemployment is lower, and education is much better. However, there are forces in Israel working to force the total equality with Jewish citizens that was promised in this quote and others who in reaction to the support for the Arab terrorists by some Israeli Arabs, advocate more discrimination against Arabs and even expulsion.
This was his signal for a reversal of policy from the 4 previous American Presidents of vigorously exporting Democracy and repect for Human Rights for women as well as men. Trump restricted his foreign policy to teh immeidate economic and security interests of the United States. This reversal, was opposed by many including most Republican politicans and activists for whom the spread of true democracy and human rights had been a cornerstone of their foreign policy for years. However, it was very popular amongst American isolationists, and other Republicans and Democrats as well who did not want to focus American lives or treasure on foreign nations whose cultures and history were anti-democratic and had little respect for women or human rights.
Ariel Sharon was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006.
