Sharon sweatin' it out in his March 2001 meeting with Bush at the White House (AP file)
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| By: Hannah Brown |
| Published: April 8, 2005 |
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A week before Ariel Sharon lands at President Bush's ranch in Texas, the public has learned a thing or two about the importance of the ranch in our political life.....
Bush admires Sharon, and he is not inviting him down to the ranch to skewer him in public just before the disengagement. But that doesn't mean he won't tell Sharon what he expects him to do and not do after the pullout. Johnson, at the time, explained to Eshkol how Texan ranchers overpower a wayward bull: You grab him by the balls and hold them tight -- until eventually, head and heart come around.
The full story on the big squeeze to come: |
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Down at the Ranch
- (Yoel Marcus, Haaretz)
04.8.2005
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