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| Comatose Sharon moves back home |
| 2010-11-13 |
| [Iran Press TV] Israel's former prime minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma since January 2006 , has been moved back to his home after spending nearly five years in hospital. Sharon, 82, fell into a coma after suffering a massive stroke and is now in a vegetative state. The former Israeli premier was taken in an ambulance on Friday morning from the Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer --near Tel Aviv-- to the family's ranch in southern Israel with no change in his condition. Hospital officials say Sharon will spend the weekend at his home in Negev and then return to the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv to be monitored. Only after several successful trials at the ranch would he stay there permanently. A full medical team will accompany him to his home where as prime minister he criminal masterminded some of Israel's deadliest offensives against Paleostinians, including the 2002 offensive in the West Bank which left dozens of Paleostinians dead. "Today, in 2010, the aspiration of any patient, our aspiration in the hospital, is to ensure that any chronic patient, when possible, is with his community, at home," Dr. Shlomo Noy, director of rehabilitation at the hospital, told Israel Radio. "Clearly what's behind this move home is the hope that his situation will get better. But the improvements that we talk about in such situations are not great improvements, not dramatic improvements," he added. The Israeli parliament has approved 1.6m Israeli shekels (436,500 US dollars) in annual funding for Sharon's medical treatment. The hawkish Israeli politician, also known as "The Bulldozer," is reviled by Paleostinians over his tough measures against Paleostinians, including supporting the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied Paleostinian territories and initiating the construction of the West Bank separation barrier. He is also widely despised in the Arab world for his role in the massacres at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside Beirut in 1982. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 #3 I'll bet he could still kick Ahmadinejad's ass. Posted by: tu3031 hmmmm - I'm thinkrn Zombie Sharon graphical novel. Should sell well on both sides |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-11-13 19:17 |
| #3 I'll bet he could still kick Ahmadinejad's ass. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-11-13 19:14 |
| #2 Nope. They have held on to him. They believe in the "God of Life". |
| Posted by: newc 2010-11-13 10:15 |
| #1 ...I honestly thought he'd passed away a couple years ago. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2010-11-13 09:41 |