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Comparing Howard Sachar and Rashid Khalidi’s Accounts of Ariel Sharon’s 2000 Visit to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif
From Howard Sachar’s A History of Israel: “Ariel Sharon Takes a Walk Its vortex was Jerusalem, traditionally the most explosive ingredient in the Palestinian-Israeli impasse; and its catalyst was Ariel Sharon, the perennial loose cannon of Israeli politics. A year earlier, following Netanyahu’s electoral defeat, the Likud party had overwhelmingly selected Sharon as its new…