Last Sunday was the anniversary of Ariel Sharon’s death. Elliott Abrams reflects on what the general and statesman would say were he alive today:

In death as in life, the late Israeli leader serves as a bogeyman in the Arab world and a convenient excuse for avoiding its pathologies of violence.

As it moves out of the shadow of its founding generation, what Israel needs is not so different from what America needed as the. . .

Israel’s Left, in lauding Ariel Sharon’s courage and leadership, has conspicuously omitted mention of his key role in Israel’s Thatcherite economic turn.

Israel’s unilateral withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza strengthened its enemies. What makes anyone think the outcome in the West Bank would be different?

Ariel Sharon, who has passed away at age of 85, saw his mission as defending Jews from those who would murder them. His means. . .

The death of the Israeli leader has not put an end to the ceaseless character assassination to which the international media subjected him throughout. . .

The unfinished battle for Israel’s soul, as told through the eyes of seven paratroopers who in 1967 helped lead the victorious battle for Jerusalem. (Interview by David Horovitz)