1. Leonard said:

My prayers are for Sharon, his family & the Israeli people.

2. Yehoshua Kehati said:

It is apparent that Hashem is saying - so to speak - that we have had enough of the petty politics and conniving that have been the curse of Israeli politics the past 60 or so years. Time to acknowledge that G-d has run, is running and will run the world. For Jews, there is truly only a life conducted according to Torah principles.
I wish Ariel Sharon a refuah shleimah, and hope he will use his enforced period of rest from his government job to reflect upon his arrogance, foolishness and impetuosity which has cost Yidden so dearly.
In 1977, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, zt'l, advised Mr. Sharon to remain in the army, and NOT to enter politics. Sharon being Sharon, of course, he talked piety but practiced egotism. Now, "what goes around comes around". Having evicted Jews from their homes, now he is out of his home. The insane wish to obey the gentile governments, and to be "like all the other nations" has been a disaster from the beginning.
Now, let us hope the people of Am Israel awaken and do teshuvah, even including Olmert, Netanyahu and Omri. As for Miss Rice, M. Chirac, James Baker (of Bush I fame) and others of their ilk, they really ought to retire to a home for the chronically hallucinatory.

3. daniel said:

In one of the most blatant and dangerous lies in world history, Sharon declared that the fate of Nitzarim wiil be the fate of Tel Aviv. Well it appears now that the fate of Nitzarim will be the fate of Sharon.

4. Yehoshua Kehati said:

Attention, Yidden! Daven for a refuah shleimah for ARIEL BEN DEVORAH. (Sharon)

5. daniel said:

I would recommend Tehilim chapter 109.

6. Leonard said:

The latest is that Sharon is now fighting for his life - let us all daven for this great man.

7. Jerusalem posts said:

I wish Sharon a speedy recovery and all the best in his retirement from politics.

Sharon took the most corrupt and politically correct, traitrous politicians from Likud and Labour and formed a thoroughly evil and corrupt Kadima, which was ready to dismantle even more of Israel.

God truly works in mysterious ways - without Sharon, Kadima don't stand a chance in the next election - but unwittingly - he's responsible for the first major cleanup of Israeli politics.

8. Dan Barkye said:

OK, so, now, the big q is who is to take the helm and if the potential ones are able to deal w the problems? And I mean by this to ask if they will be willing to see the msg clearly written on the wall: "Fight back w all your might, Israel, fight! Do what you have to do, w/o fear and w/o blinking! No one will do it for us! Fight!"

9. Omri Ceren said:

Dan: in the short-term, it's all Olmert. In the medium-term (which is frankly just a couple of days... Monday probably), there will have been a leadership race behind the scenes in Kadima. The winner will either be Olmert, Mofaz, or Peres.

10. Rajiv Singh said:

I wish Sharon a refuah shleimah, BUT, a haemorrhagic stroke is the worst variety, infinately worse than a thrombotic stroke. They have probably found the offending ruptured blood vesssel, but undoubtedly, that side of the brain will have been thoroughly chewed up to use a medical expression. The chances of any meaningful recovery are negligible at best.

What now? it was a brain dead idea to abandon Gaza as is now very obvious. Now it has become obvious that the architect himself is the next best thing to being brain dead.

I can't believe that good old unelectable Peres is still being trotted out - the guy is well over 80 for Gods sake! Give me a break! Kadima is dead in the water, and in a nation of 5.5 million prime ministers I am sure there will be one who is electable and God willing regain the glory days of Meir, Begin, or even Ben Gurion. Except this time the country actually has the goods to sort the 6th century primitives out for once and all!!

11. georg von mecklenburg said:

It is amazing to see just how many pimps there are on this website. Sharon was a man that should have left the Israeli scene years ago. Lets see things for them selves.

Sharon proposed to divide the holy city of Jerusalem. Yes a portion to the Arabs and receive in return nothing.

Sharon has now said that parts of Judea and Samaria are up for negotiation, meaning they will be given to the Arab enemy, in return for nothing.

Sharon gave back the entire Gaza to the enemy and in return has received nothing.

To those of you who are either Christians or Jews whose faith in God is shaky let me tell you that God is real and he/she exacted pure justice on this traitor. Something we all should have done a long time ago.

You should feel no pity for a person that was hell bent on your destruction. Saying a prayer for him now is useless, saying a prayer for those who were displaced by this coward should suffice.

12. ShyGuy said:

Amen!

13. Dan Barkye said:

Omri: Olmert is the short term, of course, if only by default, but for the long term, Kadima is doomed w/o Papa Sharon, whom I admired greatly and now, am confused about him, to put it in an understatement. I think that all who switched seats w Kadima's Knesset seats, are eating their hats now.

If things aren't heading toward a putsch, at least covertly in the mind of the decision makers (which isn't w/o a precedent, re E(i)zer Weitzman just before the Six Day War w Eshkol), my name is not Dunny.

If things will still have their dem turn, then a forceful personality, one like Mofaz, which you mentioned, is in the first line of candidates. I would like to see him or Olmert as PM.