GOODBYE GAZA

摘要

Ariel sharon likes reading political biographies, thick volumes about giants of history like Catherine the Great and Charles de Gaulle. Lately, he's been thumbing through Geoffrey Best's "Churchill: A Study in Greatness." According to Avi Drexler, a member of Sharon's inner circle, the prime minister has been pondering the ways his own political career resembles that of the "Last Lion." Both Churchill and Sharon were responsible for military debacles early in their political years (Churchill at Gallipoli, Sharon in Lebanon). Both survived decades in THe wilderness before reaching high office late in life. And both surprised as prime ministers: Churchill with his blood-toil-tears-and-sweat leadership in World War Ⅱ, Sharon by turning his back on Jewish settlers and ordering their evacuation from Gaza and a small part of the West Bank. But Drexler, a lawyer who sees Sharon regularly, says the Israeli leader is also keenly aware of Churchill's fate: at the end of the war, an ungrateful publicpushed him out of office.