Does anyone think AP reporter Steven Gutkin went at least a little overboard trying to draw dramatic parallels between Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat? Gutkin writes:
Some Israelis and Palestinians wince at the idea of drawing any comparison between Sharon and Arafat. Each is widely hated by the other side as a terrorist or a war criminal. But no one can deny the drama each brought to the scene and the adoring following they attracted.
Arafat’s funeral provoked a huge outpouring of grief, and Sharon’s stroke has plunged Israelis into a somber mood, with many scarcely able to imagine life without him….
Some argue the great symbolism attached to Arafat, the revolutionary, and Sharon, the warrior, made Mideast peacemaking harder.
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