Arik - The Life Of Ariel Sharon (124 page)

Reuven Adler: saccharine text, slick footage. “No, we weren’t duping the voters.” (
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Prophetic portrait: election night 2001. With (left to right) Uri Dan, Cyril Kern, Arie Genger. (
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Grand old coalition (
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“I can’t even have my own secretary?” With Marit Danon. “He’s not the man you think he is.” (
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With Mayor Rudolph Giuliani at Ground Zero. “You don’t understand what happened to us,” the U.S. ambassador berated Arik. (
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Unambiguous evidence: arms haul from the
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January 2002. Left, Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz; right, Minister of Defense Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. (
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May 2002: slinking would not be good enough for Shas. “Teaching you where the fish pees from” is a uniquely Israeli idiom meaning humiliation. Arik’s class here comprises Shas members, with their leader Rabbi Yosef visibly sweating. (
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A bus bombing in Jerusalem, June 2002. Mothers trembled and wept as they sent their children to school. (
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Reading his thoughts even when he hadn’t yet thought them? Dov Weissglas, attorney, friend, adviser, and finally bureau chief. (
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“Arik and I, I and Arik.” November 2002: veteran poll reader Netanyahu concedes to the prime minister’s popularity. (
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With Michal Modai: “Complete poppycock … of course he kissed me.” Behind Arik is Uri Shani. (
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Comfortable, confident, enjoying the job (
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Comfortable, too, in the Oval Office (
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