Israel and Palestine

Although some radical leaders call the stroke to be an act of God that benefited the Palestinian causes, Ghazi al-Saadi said differently of Ariel Sharon:

"But a Palestinian commentator on the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya network offered Sharon unexpected praise as 'the first Israeli leader who stopped claiming Israel had a right to all of the Palestinians' land,' a reference to Israel's Gaza withdrawal.

'A live Sharon is better for the Palestinians now, despite all the crimes he has committed against us,' said Ghazi al-Saadi."

Sharon is unlikely to recover and his medicine (to help keep the blood from clotting) may have caused the very complications of profusive bleeding that the doctors had struggle to contain for several hours.

Yet the suicide bombers need no other reason to believe that "God or Allah is on their side."