Sharon suffers second stroke

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Seems pretty serious this time, it couldn't be a worse time for Sharon politically either, what with him having just set-up his new party. Even if he does recover questions will be asked about his health and ability to lead Israel

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Great, there goes the moderate voice.

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Theres the Palestinian elections coming up soon too, which Hamas is widley tipped to win. The hardliners on both sides are going to have a field day

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Very unfortunate incident considering that it looked like the Israel-Palestine issue was actually moving somewhere. Anyone know details concerning Ehud Olmert's policy stances considering that he's now the active prime minister of Israel?

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Just when things could move in a positive direction for once, this setback occurred.

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(CNN) -- Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.

 

"He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America,'" Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, "The 700 Club."

 

"God says, 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone,'" he said.

 

Robertson's show airs on the ABC Family cable network and claims about 1 million viewers daily.

 

Sharon, 77, clung to life in a Jerusalem hospital Thursday after surgery to treat a severe stroke, his doctors said.

 

The prime minister, who withdrew Israeli settlers and troops from Gaza and parts of the West Bank last summer over heated objections from his own Likud Party, was breathing with the aid of a ventilator after doctors operated to stop the bleeding in his brain.

 

In Washington, President Bush offered praise for Sharon in a speech on Thursday.

 

"We pray for his recovery," Bush said. "He's a good man, a strong man. A man who cared deeply about the security of the Israeli people, and a man who had a vision for peace. May God bless him."

 

Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the United States, compared Robertson's remarks to the overheated rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Full story)

 

He called the comments "outrageous" and said they were not something to expect "from any of our friends."

 

"He is a great friend of Israel and a great friend of Prime Minister Sharon himself, so I am very surprised," Ayalon told CNN.

 

Robertson, 75, founded the Christian Coalition and in 1988 failed in a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He last stirred controversy in August, when he called for the assassination of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez. (Full story)

 

Robertson later apologized, but still compared Chavez to Hitler and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the process.

 

The same month, the Anti-Defamation League criticized Robertson for warning that God would "bring judgment" against Israel for its withdrawal from Gaza, which it had occupied since the 1967 Mideast war.

 

Robertson said Thursday that Sharon was "a very likable person, and I am sad to see him in this condition."

 

He linked Sharon's health problems to the 1995 assassination of Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the Oslo peace accords that granted limited self-rule to Palestinians.

 

"It was a terrible thing that happened, but nevertheless, now he's dead," Robertson said.

 

Rabin was gunned down by a religious student opposed to the Oslo accords. The killer, Yigal Amir, admitted to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison.

 

Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, criticized Robertson's comments Thursday, saying the televangelist "has a political agenda for the entire world."

 

"He seems to think God is ready to take out any world leader who stands in the way of that agenda," Lynn said in a written statement.

 

"A religious leader should not be making callous political points while a man is struggling for his life," he said. "I'm appalled."

 

Ralph Neas, president of liberal advocacy group People for the American Way, said "it is astonishing that Pat Robertson still wields substantial influence" in the Republican Party.

 

"Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance," Neas said in a written statement.

 

According to The Associated Press, Robertson spokeswoman Angell Watts said of people who criticized the comments: "What they're basically saying is, 'How dare Pat Robertson quote the Bible?'"

 

"This is what the word of God says," Watts told the AP. "This is nothing new to the Christian community."

 

Is it wrong to wish Pat Robertson a massive stroke? Assclown.

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(CNN) -- Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.

 

"He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America,'" Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, "The 700 Club."

 

"God says, 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone,'" he said.

 

Robertson's show airs on the ABC Family cable network and claims about 1 million viewers daily.

 

Sharon, 77, clung to life in a Jerusalem hospital Thursday after surgery to treat a severe stroke, his doctors said.

 

The prime minister, who withdrew Israeli settlers and troops from Gaza and parts of the West Bank last summer over heated objections from his own Likud Party, was breathing with the aid of a ventilator after doctors operated to stop the bleeding in his brain.

 

In Washington, President Bush offered praise for Sharon in a speech on Thursday.

 

"We pray for his recovery," Bush said. "He's a good man, a strong man. A man who cared deeply about the security of the Israeli people, and a man who had a vision for peace. May God bless him."

 

Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the United States, compared Robertson's remarks to the overheated rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Full story)

 

He called the comments "outrageous" and said they were not something to expect "from any of our friends."

 

"He is a great friend of Israel and a great friend of Prime Minister Sharon himself, so I am very surprised," Ayalon told CNN.

 

Robertson, 75, founded the Christian Coalition and in 1988 failed in a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He last stirred controversy in August, when he called for the assassination of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez. (Full story)

 

Robertson later apologized, but still compared Chavez to Hitler and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the process.

 

The same month, the Anti-Defamation League criticized Robertson for warning that God would "bring judgment" against Israel for its withdrawal from Gaza, which it had occupied since the 1967 Mideast war.

 

Robertson said Thursday that Sharon was "a very likable person, and I am sad to see him in this condition."

 

He linked Sharon's health problems to the 1995 assassination of Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the Oslo peace accords that granted limited self-rule to Palestinians.

 

"It was a terrible thing that happened, but nevertheless, now he's dead," Robertson said.

 

Rabin was gunned down by a religious student opposed to the Oslo accords. The killer, Yigal Amir, admitted to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison.

 

Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, criticized Robertson's comments Thursday, saying the televangelist "has a political agenda for the entire world."

 

"He seems to think God is ready to take out any world leader who stands in the way of that agenda," Lynn said in a written statement.

 

"A religious leader should not be making callous political points while a man is struggling for his life," he said. "I'm appalled."

 

Ralph Neas, president of liberal advocacy group People for the American Way, said "it is astonishing that Pat Robertson still wields substantial influence" in the Republican Party.

 

"Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance," Neas said in a written statement.

 

According to The Associated Press, Robertson spokeswoman Angell Watts said of people who criticized the comments: "What they're basically saying is, 'How dare Pat Robertson quote the Bible?'"

 

"This is what the word of God says," Watts told the AP. "This is nothing new to the Christian community."

 

Is it wrong to wish Pat Robertson a massive stroke? Assclown.

I wish he would get cancer, and die slowly and painfully.

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(CNN) -- Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.

 

"He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America ,'" Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, "The 700 Club."

 

It might be a stretch but hopefully someone could get him charged with treason with this. I'm sure that would be God's will far more than Sharon dying

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I swear Pat Robinson is trying to give Christians a bad name.

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I'll be honest. When Pat Robertson dies, I hope one person of each religious denomination spit on his grave then proceed to smile and shake hands with each other. It'd be the greatest gift the world could give me.

 

If I ever crossed paths with him, I'd be hard-pressed not to punch the man in the mouth for being a damn bigot under the guise of a moral religious figure.

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I don't want him to die. I want Pat to be caught in a car getting a blowjob from an underaged boy while wearing soiled women's underwear on his head and for it to be the top story on CNN, FoxNews and MSNBC.

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That brightened my morning at work after reading that 2GOLD.

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I'm surprised no one has commented about similar statements made by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadenejad, but it seems the mainstream press would rather pick up statements from a wacko Christian fundamentalist than an Anti-Semite.

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I don't want him to die. I want Pat to be caught in a car getting a blowjob from an underaged boy while wearing soiled women's underwear on his head and for it to be the top story on CNN, FoxNews and MSNBC.

 

Fox would both praise him for, oh I don't know, they're hardly news....

 

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Robertson is both brave for being open of his fetishes and a sinner!

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Oh please, not even conservatives treat Robertson as anything but a pariah these days, including Fox News, who's just as eager to point out whenever Robertson says something dumb, which is just about all the time these days. The one thing Fox does do, which sickens me, is give some respect to Jerry Falwell, who's about as bad as Robertson, although slightly more intelligent about what idiotic shit he lets come out of his mouth.

 

But to comment further on this Robertson tangent - yeah, this is a guy who should inspire spontaneous dances of joy when it's announced that he's kicked the bucket.

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I'm surprised no one has commented about similar statements made by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadenejad, but it seems the mainstream press would rather pick up statements from a wacko Christian fundamentalist than an Anti-Semite.

 

 

I've heard plenty from the mainstream press about what that asshole said. Both guys deserve a fucking slap. You seriously can't have your head that deep in the sand? C'mon guy.

[Guest]

Seriously. I see that guy on the news every other day.

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I saw a segment about Iran's president and all the shit he's been talking our way just a few minutes ago on MSNBC. What news are you watching?

[Guest]

I watch local news and that guy is on there all the time. You don't have to look very hard.

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what goes around comes around