The Toronto Globe and Mail published a poem vilifying Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and showing sympathy for Palestinian suicide bombers. “The Angel Ariel” speaks of Sharon’s earlier days, when, it says, “babies died and girls were raped.” It also says no show of Israeli force can stop a suicide bomber who would “stick a bomb against her chest/To be a model for the rest.”
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