“Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was buried today, hailed by local and foreign dignitaries for his courage on and off the battlefield, and remembered even in death for the divisions he sowed…Sharon left a mixed legacy. An audacious and ferocious military leader, he was later forced to resign as defense minister following the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon by an allied Christian militia. The politician who championed settlement construction on captured land was later lauded internationally as a peacemaker for withdrawing Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip…”.* The mixed legacy of Sharon is reviewed by The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur.

*Read more here from Calev Ben-David and Jonathan Ferziger: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-12/sharon-death-brings-biden-blair-to-israel-for-military-funeral.html

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