In the past, Gilad Sharon (son of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon) became notorious for his insistence on exercising the right to remain silent in public corruption investigations. He never opened his mouth. But the Jewish people have a lot of experience with miracles, and on Sunday, one happened for Yedioth Ahronoth. Yedioth, which serves as the mouthpiece for various convicted criminals like Haim Ramon and Aryeh Deri, naturally interviewed Sharon -- the star of the Greek Island affair, the Martin Schlaff affair , the Cyril Kern affair and the Arie Ganger affair. How fitting that the young Sharon, who writes op-eds for the paper, has been put in charge of moral norms in Arnon (Noni) Mozes' kingdom. It would be funny if it wasn't true. Sunday's incident was especially embarrassing: Gilad Sharon came out against what he called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "zigzagging" on a convoluted matter in which a Chinese bank was allegedly involved in aiding terror. How shall I put this gently: It is a little strange that someone with the last name Sharon is complaining about anyone else's "zigzagging." Especially this week. Not too long ago, in 2003, Ariel Sharon publicly announced that the same law that applies to Tel Aviv also applies to Netzarim (a settlement in the Gaza Strip), two years before evicting the Jewish residents of Gush Katif (in Gaza) and northern Samaria. To be precise, this week marks the anniversary of the greatest zigzag Israel's history. Never has there been such a colossal zigzag between "run and settle the hills" and the evacuation of settlers immediately after. Some of the evacuees from Gush Katif were personally sent to live there by Ariel Sharon himself. Complaints of "zigzagging-" Is Gilad Sharon aware of the fact that he is walking around in the sun with a huge barrel of butter on his head? The Sharon family, which has come to be viewed as synonymous with corruption among the Israeli public, has fittingly found a home base at Yedioth. It wasn't too long ago that Gilad Sharon wrote a different op-ed for his house newspaper in which he called some of Israel's leaders "losers" and "pathetic" and compared them to fleas and rotten fruit. He wrote about the "minister for nothing affairs" and the "prime minister and the rest of the dummies," even saying that "they don't know that they are dummies." Rude? Vulgar? Shallow? Well, frankly, all of the above. Sharon's op-ed on Sunday contained phrases that were no less repulsive. Almost as repulsive as the public corruption that the writer's last name has come to symbolize. Look who is talking about zigzagging! Look who is talking about the need for consistency! All that is missing if for Gilad Sharon to start preaching against corruption and in favor of holding one's tongue.
When Gilad Sharon sets moral norms
מערכת ישראל היום
מערכת "ישראל היום“ מפיקה ומעדכנת תכנים חדשותיים, מבזקים ופרשנויות לאורך כל שעות היממה. התוכן נערך בקפדנות, נבדק עובדתית ומוגש לציבור מתוך האמונה שהקוראים ראויים לעיתונות טובה יותר - אמינה, אובייקטיבית ועניינית.
