Ariel Sharon’s Son Says His Father Would Have Kept Israel From Iran

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Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister who remains incapacitated since suffering a stroke six years ago, would have done “everything in his power” to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons if he were still prime minister, his son Gilad Sharon has told The Daily Beast.

He said he’s sure Israel would be better off today had his father never left the political stage because Sharon “was a much better prime minister” than current leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I cannot point out a specific decision he would take, but I can tell you he would do everything in his power—and his power was always something you cannot underestimate—to prevent that from happening ,” Sharon said in an interview to promote the biography he’s written about his father, Sharon: The Life of a Leader.

The book traces Ariel Sharon’s trajectory over decades from soldier to general to right-wing politician. In the sections dealing with the elder Sharon’s five years as prime minister, starting in 2001, Gilad draws on his own experience as his father’s informal adviser. Among other things, Gilad says he was the one who came up with the idea of withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, a move that angered Sharon’s more hawkish supporters when he carried it out in 2005.

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