Ariel Sharon’s son says “flatten all of Gaza”

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:59:00 +0000

In one of the most incendiary op-eds on the current Gaza crisis, Gilad Sharon, son of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Israel should "Flatten all of Gaza."

Sharon, whose father ordered a withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, called for the blockaded Palestinian region to be annihilated or re-occupied by Israeli troops.

"There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they'd really call for a ceasefire," he wrote. "We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too."

Placing all blame for the current conflict on the people of Gaza, Sharon -- a columnist for Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth and a major in the IDF reserves -- suggests that Palestinians in the region chose and deserve a painful fate, essentially endorsing civilian deaths:

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Ariel Sharon’s son says “flatten all of Gaza”