CAIRO, September 30 (IslamOnline) - A well-known Israeli political analyst and writer said that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s crimes could have been stopped, had he been detained after his first military mistake.

In his article published Saturday, September 28, B. Michael, the political commentator of the Israeli daily, Yidiout Ahronut, launched a fierce attack on Sharon and other senior officials of his coalition government, accusing him of “always adopting plans leading to destruction”.

“When leftists, like myself, wondered about the logic behind concentrating the Israeli army’s hostile practices against [Palestinian President Yasser] Arafat and the Authority, the reason behind quitting [peaceful] negotiations, our remarks were dismissed. Thank God, a year later, we were proved right. Every sane person knows how stupid the actions of destruction by the Israeli army in the Palestinian lands is,” Michael said.

The Israeli writer blasted all the plans adopted by Sharon during his military and political careers.

“The overwhelming majority of Sharon’s big plans usually end in destruction, piles of corpses, rivers of blood, and deep feelings of hatred. Then, this person [Sharon] would cry over spilt blood, and put the blame on someone else.

“We can see that in his latest speech, in the anniversary of October War [1973],” added Michael, quoting Sharon as saying: “The Israeli government in 1970 is guilty, as it did not attack Egypt when the latter launched its missiles. The Israeli government in 1995-96 is also guilty for not punishing the Palestinians for violations of the Oslo accords”.

“That song which Sharon always sings made me raise some interesting question marks about that man’s [Sharon] career. What if Sharon was jailed in September 1953 when the unit under his command killed 19 civilians in El-Birig refugee camp, mostly women and children? For sure, that would have prevented the crime committed less than a month later, also by his unit, when 69 civilians, half of them women and children were killed at Qabyya village.

“If someone had put him in jail, that would have prevented Gaza Operation in February, 1955, which led to the killing of 38 Egyptians and 8 Israelis. Had Sharon been detained or thrown out of the army then, the failing operation in Sinai in October 1956, where 18 Israeli soldiers were killed and tens injured, without achieving any results, wouldn’t have taken place.

“In 1970, Sharon founded a ‘death squad’ in Gaza Strip, excessively executing innocent civilians and tarnishing the moral image of the Israeli army,” Michael wrote.

The Israeli writer went on counting Sharon’s war crimes (dubbed military mistakes by the Israelis) from October War, 1973, to his invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and the famous massacre he committed in Sabra & Shatila refugee camps there where the Christian Phalangist militias - in collaboration with the Israeli army at the time Sharon was defense minister - massacred up to 2000 refugees.