"It was mid-October 1953. Within eight hours al-Badoui's home was rubble. By dawn the next morning Israeli special forces would have dynamited much of the village and killed 69 people. Their leader was Ariel Sharon, the man who, unless the polls are outrageously inaccurate, seems certain to be Israel's Prime Minister by the middle of this week." From an article in the Guardian earlier this year.

Well 69 dead bodies doesn't put Sharon in the top rank of terrorists in these terrible times. But it's a pretty sizeable toll for one nights work.

Maybe Sharon needs to have a Palestinian leader who is a terrorist to feel comfortable with. Arafat no longer qualifies. And if that's what Sharon wants, he's certainly going the right way about it. Well, it probably is what he wants - but do the people who support him really feel the same way?