So under me you will not see a child shot next to his father. It is better to level an entire village, row by row. Sharon, at 73, will not step through the looking glass and emerge the benevolent grandpa his campaign ads portray. Palestinians know it. The Israeli left knows it.
Arab neighbors know it.
A season of unprecedented hostility may be settling upon the two peoples of historical Palestine, and surely the fragile peace process will succumb to a Likud victory. Thomas Friedman, an American journalist who was at ground zero in Lebanon in 1982 and was one of the first to witness the carnage at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps, referred to Sharon-like aggression when he poignantly noted Visit Israel before it visits you.