“As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.”

Israeli general and politician

Ariel Sharon was an Israeli general and politician, and served as prime minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006. He became a central figure in Israeli public life through both military command and politics. He is known for a long career that moved from the army into national leadership, with his name often linked to the highest level of Israeli government. The facts available here place him above all as a military and political leader, not as an author or performer.