Israeli Prime Minister Sharon is accused by some of being complicit with war crimes for his alleged role in a 1982 massacre; a massacre for which an Israeli domestic inquiry found him indirectly responsible thus forcing him to resign as defense minister.
He is widely accused of having provoked the Second Palestinian Intifada by his belligerent visit to the site of Jerusalem's holiest Islamic mosque back in 2000 at a time of tension.
He was once seen as the messiah of Israeli's extremist settlers movement. A movement that now sees him as a traitor for withdrawing Israeli occupation troops from the Gaza Strip and daring to give miniscule autonomy to the Palestinians.
How bitterly polarized is Israel's Likud Party if party leader Sharon is seen as a leftie peacenik by that organization? How radicalized are many elements of the party if Sharon is seen as the voice of moderation?
I'm sure the center-left Labor Party is salivating at the prospect of Sharon being replaced by the hard-line Benjamin Netanyahu, who is widely loathed outside Likud circles.
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