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| Ariel Sharon's funeral, Jerusalem - Jan 13, 2014 (Photo from US Embassy, Tel Aviv) |
By Ramzy Baroud
The death of former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon enlivened US media’s interest in the legacy of a man considered by many a war criminal, and by some a hero. In fact, the supposed heroism of Sharon was at the heart of CNN coverage of his death on January 11.
Sharon
spent the last eight years prior to his death in a coma, but apparently
not long enough for US corporate media to wake up from its own moral
coma. CNN online’s coverage presented Sharon as a man of heroic stature,
who was forced to make tough choices for the sake of his own people.
“Throughout, he was called ‘The Bulldozer,’ a fearless leader who got
things done,” wrote Alan Duke.
In his
article, “Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister, dead at 85”,
Duke appeared to be confronting Sharon’s past head on. In reality, he
cleverly whitewashed the man’s horrendous crimes, while finding every
opportunity to recount his fictional virtue. “Many in the Arab world
called Sharon ‘the Butcher of Beirut’ after he oversaw Israel’s 1982
invasion of Lebanon while serving as defense minister,” Duke wrote.
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