Sharon

Sent back to the operating room. Doesn’t look good.

Hugh Hewitt is linking to a blogger translating updates from the Hebrew.

Ed Driscoll says we can look for a repeat of street dancing. He has lots of links including this:

..a radical Palestinian leader in Damascus, the Syrian capital, called Sharon’s health crisis a gift from God.

“We say it frankly that God is great and is able to exact revenge on this butcher. … We thank God for this gift he presented to us on this new year,” Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Syrian-backed faction Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a small radical group, told the Associated Press.

As Ed says, just lovely. Sigmund notes the celebratory mood of the Palestinians as well, which yes…does sort of remind me of this.

Ed Morrissey covers Palestinian gratitude.

Daniel at Astute Blogger wonders what’s gonna be?

Even the PA now admits that the statehood project has been a catastrophe and that its failure has little to do with Israel, according to The Scotsman. The Palestinian people have used democracy to repeatedly validate a mandate for war. The political factions involved in the territories have refused to disarm. The Palestinian Authority, an oxymoron if ever there was one, has proven itself impotent without the old terrorist Yasser Arafat at its head. The lack of law and order has reduced the entire area to little more than a free-fire zone and terrorist’s delight — and the only authority that could possibly control the violence has no more incentive to intervene, thanks to decades of scolding for providing that service without any recognition of its necessity.

If Sharon passes away tonight, he can go with a satisfaction of forcing the Palestinians themselves to prove themselves unworthy of the world’s concern.

Roger Simon has lots of updates, as does Political Pitbull.
Alexandra has fightin’ words.
Wikipedia apparently says that Sharon is in hell. Nice.

Although Amir Teheri says ultimately 2005 was good for the Middle East, 2006 looks like it could shape up ugly.