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Bulldozing Barak

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2001, at 3:00 AM ET

On Tuesday Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister of Israel. In October Slate's David Plotz called Sharon "part Douglas MacArthur, part Richard Nixon, part hand grenade. ... Israel has grown rich, powerful, and secure," Plotz wrote, "[yet] Sharon fixates on the idea of Israeli weakness." Read the article here.

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