After keeping him a breathing ‘dead' for eight years, "Israel" has buried the infamous criminal Ariel Sharon as a hero worthy of appreciation. Benjamin Netanyahu has called Sharon ‘a fierce warrior who scared Arabs and the nation will always keep a memory of him'.

Despite all this glorification, Human Rights Watch has issued a statement in which they regret that Sharon was not trialed for his massacres in Sabra and Shatila, where hundreds of unarmed Palestinians were killed.

This massacre has cost Sharon his position as a minister of defense back then. Even if his funeral should include the protocol of praising him, it is very difficult to forget how Sharon implicated "Israel" in 1982 war on Lebanon.
Sharon misled the prime minister claiming that it is nothing more than a forty kilometer incursion for a period of 48 hours. But it stretched until Beirut for 18 years costing "Israel" more than a thousand people dead.
The Haganah gangster was finally buried. Sharon, more than any other "Israeli" soldier was associated to many massacres committed against Palestinians starting from Qabia Palestinian village in the fifties reaching Sabra and Shatila that was not the last.

He fought in all wars against Arabs where he was well-known of resorting to extreme violence before turning to politics.

Sharon founded the extreme right-wing Likud Party adopting the policy of settlement in a strategic Zionist perspective. Today, settlements are obstacles in any way for peace bringing Palestinian few national and human rights. Sharon's 2000 visit to al-Aqsa mosque triggered the second Palestinian uprising that was seen by Sharon as a part of "a Hundred year war" targeting Zionism and "Israel".
However, the Likud member ended his political life in 2004 by implementing the unilateral "Israeli" disengagement plan from Gaza district shattering the legend of greater "Israel" that included all Palestinian lands.

Palestinians cheered over the death of the always considered as a butcher and killer whose last crime was assassinating their leader Yasser Arafat after being besieged at his headquarters in Ramallah.

Palestinians wished that Sharon should have been trialed in an international court and punished for his cold blood crimes against them. Hamas movement has considered that the Palestinian nation is living historical moments in the death of this blood-handed killer.

Hamas views Sharon's death after an eight-year coma as a godly punishment for all tyrants. But, the American president issued a shameless hypocritical statement where he finds Sharon's death an occasion to renew commitment of securing "Israel" and holding to the everlasting friendship between both countries and nations.

The belated pointless justice finally comes out from Human Rights Watch that announced their regret of Sharon's death without being trialed. They considered that his departure is an unfortunate reminder that not being punished for violating human rights has done nothing to bring us closer to peace between "Israelis" and Palestinians. Survivors of Shatila filed a law suit against Sharon in Belgium demanding that he should be chased under the Belgian universal jurisdiction.

But political pressures pushed to repeal the law, which led to drop the case, and encouraged him to commit more crimes, such as construction of the apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank violating the international humanitarian law. As a result, the occupation army now has the right to impose severe and discriminatory laws on thousands of Palestinians living in areas close to the wall. Restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement has very devastating economic and social consequences.

Sharon is now fortunately gone. He deserved an earthly punishment as nobody knows how much pain he suffered during an eight year coma.

Original article: al-Mada Iraqi Newspaper, Written by Hazem Munaideen*

*Translated by al-Ahed news