Original sentence: As Prime Minister, Sharon orchestrated Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2004–05.Facing stiff opposition to this policy within the Likud, in November 2005 he left Likud to form a new party, Kadima.From the 1970s through to the 1990s, Sharon championed construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.He became an instrumental figure in the creation of Unit 101 and the reprisal operations, as well as in the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War of 1967, the War of Attrition, and the Yom-Kippur War of 1973.Israelis almost universally revere Sharon as a war hero and statesman who played a vital role in defining the country's borders, whereas Palestinians revile Sharon as a war criminal who suppressed their aspirations for statehood.While generally considered a great general and statesman among Israelis, numerous media and political sources revile Sharon as a war criminal
Edited sentence: As Israel's Prime Minister (2001-2006), Sharon orchestrated the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier in 2002 and Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2004–05.Facing stiff opposition to the latter policy within the Likud, in November 2005 he left Likud to form a new party, Kadima.From the 1970s through to the 1990s, Sharon championed construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.He became an instrumental figure in the creation of Unit 101 and the reprisal operations, including the 1953 Qibya massacre of Palestinian villagers, as well as in the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War of 1967, the War of Attrition, and the Yom-Kippur War of 1973.Israelis almost universally revere Sharon as a war hero and statesman who played a vital role in defining the country's borders, whereas Palestinians and numerous media and political sources revile Sharon as a war criminal.Sharon was never held criminally accountable for his role in the Sabra and Shatila massacre and other war crimes committed, a fact that Human Rights Watch lamented after his death.While generally considered a great general and statesman among Israelis, Palestinians and numerous media and political sources revile Sharon as a war criminal