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JohnnyAdam – Bekas
perdana menteri Israel ikonik tetapi kontroversi, Ariel Sharon, telah mati
selepas keadaan perubatannya ketara merosot, anaknya yang mengsahkan kepada
media.
Ahli
politik berusia 85 tahun meninggal dunia di Tel Hashomer hospital Tel Aviv,
juga dikenali sebagai Chaim Sheba Medical Center, di mana beliau telah dalam
keadaan koma sejak Januari 2006 selepas mengalami strok dan pendarahan otak.
Selama
hampir 8 tahun Sharon berada di atas sokongan hidup pernafasan, kadang-kadang
membuka matanya dan jari bergerak. Beliau disokong oleh cecair melalui tiub
makanan.
Tanda-tanda
bahawa kesihatannya telah gagal mula datang tidak lama sebelum Tahun Baru,
dengan jurucakap kemerosotan laporan hospital dalam keadaan perubatan Sharon.
Bekas perdana menteri telah mengalami “masalah buah pinggang yang serius”
selepas menjalani pembedahan, lapor radio tentera.
Laman
web berita Ynet memetik sumber perubatan sebagai berkata Sharon telah dibawa ke
dalam rawatan rapi sebulan yang lalu.
“Kami
menentukan keadaannya sebagai kritikal, dan pasti ada ancaman kepada kehidupan
beliau,” Zeev Rotstein , Pengarah Pusat Perubatan Sheba , kepada pemberita. “Perasaan
semua orang . . . adalah bahawa penurunan ini adalah sangat serius.”
Pada
bulan September, Sharon menjalani pembedahan untuk membetulkan sistem pemberian
makanan intravena beliau.
Januari
lalu, imbasan MRI neurologi mendedahkan aktiviti otak yang penting dalam otak
bekas PM. Kakitangan perubatan mencatatkan tindak balas positif kepada gambar
keluarga, rakaman suara anaknya dan sentuhan manusia.
Sharon,
salah satu jeneral yang paling terkenal Israel, adalah seorang tokoh ikonik di
zamannya, namun beberapa dasar beliau kekal kontroversi hingga ke hari ini.
Sebagai
seorang komander tentera, Sharon kadang-kadang menderhaka perintah dan diikuti
taktik berani dan sering berisiko dalam peperangan. Sebagai seorang ahli
politik beliau dikenali sebagai “Jentolak,” lelaki yang mampu mendapatkan
perkara2 yang dilakukan .
Kenaikan
daripada pangkat parasutis kepada Menteri Pertahanan, Sharon memainkan peranan
yang penting dalam beberapa konflik bersenjata Israel - Perang 1948
Kemerdekaan, 1956 Perang Suez, Perang Enam Hari pada tahun 1967, Perang
pergeseran dan Yom - Kippur Perang tahun 1973 dan 1982 Perang Lubnan.
Pada
tahun 1967, genius tentera dalam Perang Enam Hari diperolehi beliau nama “Raja
Israel” dan “Singa Tuhan” bagi orang awam Israel.
Sharon
meletak jawatan sebagai Menteri Pertahanan pada tahun 1983 selepas suruhan-jaya
siasatan mendapati beliau secara peribadi atas gagal menghalang pembunuhan
beramai-ramai pelarian Palestin di Sabra dan Shatilla kem Beirut dengan
Phalangis Kristian.
Selepas
bersara daripada tentera, Sharon menyertai dan kemudian membawa parti Likud,
meninggalkan ia pada 2005 untuk membentuk parti Kadima yang baru.
Helang
tentera , beliau yang terkenal keras - liner Israel ketika beliau dilantik
Perdana Menteri pada tahun 2001.
Pada
pertengahan tahun 2005 beliau berakhir 38 tahun kawalan tentera di Semenanjung
Gaza selepas mengarahkan pengeluaran satu pihak tentera dan peneroka Israel
dari wilayah, satu kejutan bagi mereka yang menyokong memperjuangkan Sharon
pembinaan penempatan Israel di Tebing Barat dan Semenanjung Gaza.
Ex-Israeli PM Ariel
Sharon dies at 85 . . .
The
iconic but controversial former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has died
after his medical condition significantly deteriorated, his son confirmed to
the media.
The
85-year-old politician died in Tel Aviv’s Tel Hashomer hospital, also known as
the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, where he had been in a coma since January 2006
after suffering a stroke and brain hemorrhage.
For
nearly eight years Sharon was on respiratory life support, occasionally opening
his eyes and moving fingers. He was supported by fluids through a feeding tube.
Signs
that his health was failing started coming shortly before the New Year, with a
spokesman for the hospital reporting deterioration in Sharon’s medical
condition. The ex-PM was suffering from “serious kidney problems” after
undergoing surgery, army radio said.
News
website Ynet quoted medical sources as saying Sharon was taken into intensive
care a month ago.
"We
are defining his condition as critical, and there is definitely a threat to his
life," Zeev Rotstein, director of the Sheba Medical Center, told
reporters. "The feeling of everyone ... is that this decline is very
serious."
In
September, Sharon underwent surgery to correct his intravenous feeding system.
Last
January, neurological MRI scans revealed significant brain activity in the
former PM’s brain. Medical staff recorded a positive response to family
pictures, a recording of his son's voice and human touch.
Sharon,
one of Israel’s most famous generals, was an iconic figure of his time, yet
some of his policies remain controversial to this day.
As a
military commander, Sharon sometimes disobeyed orders and followed bold and
often risky tactics in battle. As a politician he was known as “the bulldozer,”
a man capable of getting things done.
Rising
from the rank of paratrooper to Defense Minister, Sharon played a prominent
part in several of Israel’s armed conflicts – the 1948 War of Independence, the
1956 Suez War, the Six-Day War of 1967, the War of Attrition and the Yom-Kippur
War of 1973 and the 1982 Lebanon War.
By 1967,
his military genius in the Six-Day War earned him the name of "The King of
Israel" and "The Lion of God" with the Israeli public.
Sharon
resigned as a Defense Minister in 1983 after a commission of inquiry found him
personally liable for failing to prevent the massacre of Palestinian refugees
in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatilla camps by Christian Phalangists.
After
retiring from the army, Sharon joined and later led the Likud party, leaving it
in 2005 to form the new Kadima party.
A
military hawk, he was Israel’s prominent hard-liner when he was elected prime
minister in 2001.
In
mid-2005 he ended 38 years of military control of the Gaza Strip after
directing a unilateral withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from the
territory, a shock for those who supported Sharon’s championing of the
construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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