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Ariel Sharon

أرئيل شارون אריאל שרון
Head of government Inactive Verified

Prime minister of Israel 2001-2006, founder of Kadima, architect of the 2005 Gaza disengagement. Suffered a stroke January 2006; died 2014.

Country
Israel
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of government
Status
Historical figure

Position

1 source document on file for Ariel Sharon (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Ariel Sharon that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • The disengagement plan is meant to grant maximum security and minimize friction between Israelis and Palestinians.
    תוכנית ההתנתקות נועדה להעניק מקסימום ביטחון ולמזער חיכוך בין ישראלים לפלסטינים.
    2003 December 18 2003 Herzliya Conference address — the speech that introduced unilateral withdrawal as right-wing security doctrine, two years before the Gaza pullout. en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Ariel Sharon [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sharon
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Ariel Sharon." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sharon.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-sharon,
  title     = {{Ariel Sharon}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sharon},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.