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(, genannt  Arik; geboren am 26. Februar 1928 als Ariel Scheinermann in Kfar Malal, Britisches Mandatsgebiet Palästina; gestorben am 11. Januar 2014 in Ramat Gan) war ein israelischer Politiker und General. Bis zum Jom-Kippur-Krieg 1973 war er als aktiver Offizier, vielfach in entscheidenden Positionen, an allen militärischen Konflikten Israels beteiligt. Damals und in der darauf folgenden Zeit, als er mehrfach Ministerämter bekleidete, galt er als Hardliner und Protagonist der Siedlerbewegung. Als Ministerpräsident von 2001 bis 2006 setzte er dagegen den Abzug des israelischen Militärs aus dem Gazastreifen durch.

Familie
Scharons Vater Schmuel kam aus Brest-Litowsk und die Mutter, die einer Familie von Subbotniki entstammte, aus Mogiljow in Belarus. Der Vater hatte gerade in Tiflis sein Betriebswirtschaftsstudium mit Vertiefung auf Einzelhandelskaufmann abgeschlossen, als er 1921 als aktiver Zionist vor der Roten Armee floh und zusammen mit der Mutter nach Palästina auswanderte. Seine Frau Vera Schneeroff konnte deshalb ihr Studium der Medizin nicht abschließen, was sie ihr Leben lang bereute. Im Unterschied zu vielen Einwanderern jener Zeit war sie weder sozialistisch eingestellt noch teilte sie den Zionismus ihres Mannes.

Die Familie zog in den Moschaw Kfar Malal, wo die Entscheidungen zwar kollektiv getroffen wurden, aber jeder sein eigenes Land besaß. Als einziger studierter Landwirt und wenig kompromissbereiter Mensch verstand es der Vater, sich wiederholt über die Entscheidungen der Gemeinschaft hinwegzusetzen, wodurch sich die Familie jedoch manchmal isolierte.

Frühe Jahre

Dienst in der Hagana

Bereits mit 13 Jahren beteiligte sich Scharon am Wachdienst des Moschaws und trat im Jahr darauf der Untergrundorganisation Hagana bei, dem Vorläufer der israelischen Armee. Seit 1941 besuchte er das Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. Dort legte er, der nie ein herausragender Schüler war, mit 17 Jahren das Abitur ab. Da sein Vater die Aktionen des Palmach gegen national-konservative Gruppen (wie Lechi und Etzel) ablehnte, die gegen die Briten kämpften, trat Scharon nicht dieser Eliteeinheit, sondern der Jewish Settlement Police bei. Schon seit dem 21. Dezember 1947 war die Hagana dauerhaft mobilisiert, und Scharon nahm an mehreren ihrer Aktionen teil.

Unabhängigkeitskrieg

Zu Beginn des israelischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges von 1948 war Scharon Zugführer in einer Infanteriekompanie, die zur Alexandroni-Brigade gehörte. Er kämpfte unter anderem am 26. Mai 1948 in der ersten Schlacht um Latrun, in der er schwer verwundet und sein Zug fast vollkommen ausgelöscht wurde. Später wurde er zum Aufklärungsoffizier im Bataillon ernannt, das zuerst im Norden gegen die irakischen und später, kurz vor Kriegsende, im Süden gegen die ägyptischen Truppen kämpfte.

Nach dem Krieg wurde die Alexandroni-Brigade in den Reservestatus versetzt. Scharon wurde Offizier der Aufklärung in der Golani-Brigade, in der er bald zum Hauptmann (Seren) befördert wurde und einen Bataillonskommandeurskurs besuchte. Im Jahr 1950 wurde er zum Aufklärungsoffizier für das gesamte Zentralkommando ernannt. Wegen der Folgen einer Malaria nahm Scharon 1951 eine mehrmonatige Auszeit und bereiste zum ersten Mal Europa und Nordamerika. Im November 1952 war Scharon unter der Führung von Mosche Dajan erstmals an Kommandoaktionen hinter den feindlichen Linien beteiligt. Am Ende des Jahres entschloss er sich jedoch zum Rückzug aus dem aktiven Dienst.

Er begann ein Studium der Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Ostens an der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem, an der sich 1947 bereits für Landwirtschaft eingeschrieben hatte. Am 29. März 1953 heiratete er seine erste Frau Margalit (kurz Gali), eine rumänische Jüdin, die er 1947 kennengelernt hatte. Margalit starb im Jahr 1962 bei einem Autounfall. Durch einen Unfall mit einem Gewehr der Familie starb auch ihr gemeinsamer Sohn Gur 1967 früh. Scharon heiratete später Margalits jüngere Schwester Lily, mit der er zwei Söhne, Omri und Gilad zeugte. Lily Scharon starb im Jahr 2000 an Lungenkrebs.

Militärische Karriere

Die Einheit 101
Im Jahr 1951 kam es zu 137, 1952 zu 162 und 1953 zu 160 Angriffen von Palästinensern auf den jungen Staat Israel. Da dessen Grenzen nur schwer zu überwachen waren, gelang es einigen Angreifern sogar, bis in die Vororte Tel Avivs vorzudringen. Dabei waren zahlreiche – meist zivile – Opfer zu beklagen. Das israelische Militär versuchte bei mehreren Gegenschlägen, die Zentren der paramilitärischen und terroristischen Angreifer zu treffen. Diese waren jedoch wenig effektiv, da die eingesetzten Truppen nicht speziell ausgebildet waren und oft schwere Verluste erlitten. Auch Scharon führte einen dieser misslungenen Gegenschläge aus. Seine militärische Analyse der Aktion bewog David Ben Gurion dazu, Mordechai Maklef mit der Gründung einer Spezialeinheit zu beauftragen, der Einheit 101. Ende Juli 1953 wurde Scharon mit deren Führung betraut. Daher musste er sein Studium zurückstellen.

Scharon wählte die 45 Mitglieder der Einheit sorgfältig aus. Seit Oktober 1953 wurden sie im Camp Sataf einem harten Training unterworfen. Die Einheit begann mit Militäraktionen im Feindesland, die sie als "Abschreckungsoperationen" bezeichnete. Bei einem gemeinsam mit einer Kompanie Fallschirmjäger unternommenen Angriff auf das jordanische Dorf Qibya wurden 69 Menschen getötet. Die meisten Opfer waren Zivilisten, die sich trotz Räumungsbefehls in ihren Häusern versteckt hielten, die von den Israelis gesprengt wurden. In seiner Autobiografie schreibt Ariel Scharon:

Die Fallschirmjäger

Nachdem Mosche Dajan Ende 1953 zum israelischen Generalstabschef ernannt worden war, wurde die Einheit 101 in die Fallschirmjägertruppe integriert. Scharon wurde der Kommandeur des Bataillons, das nach Einschätzung der israelischen Führung erfolgreich arbeitete. Nach der Qibya-Aktion wurden jedoch nur noch rein militärische Ziele angegriffen. Neben der herausgehobenen Position der Fallschirmjäger führte die Tatsache, dass Scharon seine persönlichen Kontakte zu Ben Gurion und Dajan zu scharfer Kritik an den Methoden der Armee und für seine persönlichen Ambitionen nutzte, zu Problemen Scharons mit seinen Vorgesetzten in der Armee. Zu Konflikten kam es auch mit dem neuen Verteidigungsminister Pinchas Lawon, der, besorgt um die außenpolitischen Auswirkungen der Aktionen, Scharon vergeblich zu zügeln versuchte. In diese Zeit fällt auch der großangelegte Angriff der Einheit auf das ägyptische Hauptquartier in Gaza am 28. Februar 1955, der einer der Gründe für die verstärkte Inanspruchnahme sowjetischer Militärhilfe durch Gamal Abdel Nasser war. Eine weitere bedeutende Aktion war der Angriff auf das jordanische Militärhauptquartier in Kalkilia im Oktober 1956.

Die Sueskrise
In der Sueskrise spielte Scharons 202. Fallschirmjäger-Brigade eine entscheidende Rolle. Das 890. Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon sicherte nach einer Luftlandung den Ostausgang des strategisch wichtigen Mitla-Passes. Der Rest der Brigade unter Scharon kämpfte sich in zwei Tagen auf dem Landweg die 200 km durch feindliches Gebiet zum Pass vor.

Scharon bat mehrmals erfolglos darum, den Pass angreifen zu dürfen, erhielt aber nur Erlaubnis, ihn aufzuklären, um ihn, falls er unbesetzt sein sollte, später einzunehmen. In großzügiger Auslegung seiner Anweisungen schickte Scharon einen für reine Aufklärungszwecke sehr starken Spähtrupp, der in der Passmitte durch schweres Feuer gebunden wurde. Scharon schickte daraufhin auch den Rest seiner Brigade zur Unterstützung. In dem sich nun entwickelnden Gefecht konnten die Israelis den Pass erobern, wobei 38 israelische Soldaten fielen. Mehrere Jahre später gingen einige Teilnehmer der Schlacht an die Presse und warfen Scharon vor, er habe seine Aufklärer leichtfertig in Gefahr gebracht, um die Ägypter zu provozieren. Andere Veteranen der Aktion nahmen Scharon hingegen in Schutz.

Zwischenkriegszeit
Der Mitla-Zwischenfall fand das Missfallen von Scharons Vorgesetzten und brachte seine militärische Karriere auf Jahre hinaus beinahe zum Stillstand. Er blieb Kommandeur der Fallschirmjäger, bis er im Herbst 1957 von Dajan für ein Jahr nach Großbritannien auf das Staff College Camberley geschickt wurde. Dort schrieb er eine analytische Arbeit mit dem Titel: Command Interference in Tactical Battlefield Decisions: British and German Approaches. Nach seiner Rückkehr wurde er Oberst und Kommandeur der Infanterie-Schule, eine Aufgabe, die ihm wegen ihrer Theorielastigkeit nicht zusagte. Später kam das Kommando einer Reserve-Infanteriebrigade hinzu. Scharon begann auch einen Panzer-Lehrgang und besuchte einen Abendkurs für Jura bei der Tel Aviver Abteilung der Hebräischen Universität (den Abschluss machte er schließlich 1966). Auf Druck von Ben Gurion ernannte ihn Tzur schließlich zum Kommandeur einer Reserve-Panzerbrigade, abermals eine inaktive Rolle, die ihm aber wegen seines Interesses für die strategische Bedeutung von Panzern eher zusagte. Erst als Ende 1963 Jitzchak Rabin, der spätere israelische Premierminister, zum Generalstabschef ernannt wurde, wurde Scharon wieder einbezogen und zum Kommandeur des Nordkommandos unter Avraham Joffe ernannt. 1966 wurde er schließlich von Rabin in den Rang eines Generalmajors (Aluf) befördert, zum Direktor des militärischen Trainings ernannt und Kommandeur einer Reserve-Division.

Der Sechstagekrieg
Vor dem Sechstagekrieg machte sich Scharon zusammen mit Joffe und Matti Peled dafür stark, die ursprüngliche Taktik eines Stufenplans, der das schrittweise Meistern verschiedener Fronten und Konfliktherde vorsah, durch einen größer angelegten Präventivschlag an mehreren Fronten zu ersetzen. Scharon plante einen Angriff, der sowohl gleichzeitig und von Beginn an alle verfügbaren Kräfte ins Kampfgeschehen einbindet, als auch die gesamte Sinaifront umfassen sollte. Nach der Ernennung Dajans zum Verteidigungsminister konnte sich diese Vorstellung durchsetzen. Im Krieg kommandierte Scharon die mächtigste Panzerdivision an der Sinaifront (die beiden anderen Divisionen waren die von Tal und Joffe), der der Durchbruch im Gebiet von Kusseima und Abu-Ageila gelang. Es war schließlich auch Scharon, der die 6. ägyptische Division vernichtend schlug. Rabin ernannte Scharon daraufhin zum Kommandeur des Sinai, wodurch er auch für die Versorgung der in der Wüste verstreuten ägyptischen Soldaten zuständig war.

Als Chef der militärischen Ausbildung begann er sofort nach dem Krieg, verschiedene Ausbildungszentren in das Westjordanland zu verlegen, um die Gebiete zu sichern. Am Ende hatte er beinahe alle ehemaligen jordanischen Militärlager und Kasernen besetzt, die an den wichtigen strategischen Punkten lagen. Er versuchte auch Dajan davon zu überzeugen, die Familien der Soldaten in der Nähe dieser Kasernen anzusiedeln, war jedoch zunächst nicht erfolgreich.

Im Jahr 1969 wurde er Chef des Südkommandos der israelischen Streitkräfte. Im Januar 1972 soll er Angaben des Scharon-Biographen David Landau zufolge die Vertreibung von 3.000 Beduinen in der Wüste des Sinais angeordnet haben, weil er auf dem Land der Beduinen eine Militärübung durchführen wollte. Die Menschen sollen ohne Vorbereitungszeit bei eisigen Temperaturen in drei Nächten zum Verlassen ihres Landes gezwungen worden sein. Während der Vertreibung kamen rund 40 Personen, vor allem Kinder, Babys und Alte, ums Leben. David Elazar ordnete nach der erfolgreichen Durchführung der Übung an, die Rückkehr der Beduinen auf ihr Land zu ermöglichen.

Der Jom-Kippur-Krieg
Nach dem Angriff arabischer Staaten auf Israel zum Auftakt des Jom-Kippur-Krieges 1973 wurde Scharon aus dem militärischen Ruhestand zurückgerufen und mit der Führung der 143. Panzerdivision betraut. Wegen seines eigenmächtigen Führungsstils stand er im ständigen Konflikt zu seinen Vorgesetzten Generalmajor Shmuel Gonen und Generalleutnant Chaim Bar-Lev während des misslungenen Gegenangriffs am 8. Oktober, wie auch während der Operation Gazelle, dem Übergang auf das Westufer des Suezkanals. Scharon gelang es zwar unter großen Verlusten einen Brückenkopf zu errichten, den entscheidenden Durchbruch und die anschließende Einschließung der 3. Ägyptischen Armee erzwang jedoch die 162. Panzerdivision unter Generalmajor Abraham (Bren) Adan, unterstützt durch eine weitere Panzerdivision.
Während dieser Operation hatte Scharon den Auftrag, mit seiner Division vorrangig die Übergangsstelle zu sichern, dem er erst nachkam, als ihm Bar-Lev ein Verfahren wegen Befehlsverweigerung androhte. Scharons Angriffe auf Ismailia, sowie auf die Missouri-Stellung am Ostufer zur Absicherung des Korridors, blieben erfolglos.
Dass Scharon nach wie vor als Lichtgestalt und Sieger aus dem Jom-Kippur-Krieg hervorging, verdankt er dem zunehmend erstarkenden Likudblock, der ihm als Hoffnungsträger half, eine Legende aufzubauen, die ihn als Sieger aus dem Jom-Kippur-Krieg hervorgehen ließ.
Von allen Politikern und Militärs, die nach dem Krieg im Kreuzfeuer der Kritik standen oder gar von der Agranat-Kommission gemaßregelt wurden, blieb Scharon verschont.

Politischer Werdegang

Minister
Vor den Knesset-Wahlen 1973 wurde unter maßgeblicher Beteiligung des gerade aus der Armee ausgeschiedenen Scharon aus dem Zusammenschluss des rechten Parteienbündnisses Gachal mit kleineren Rechtsparteien der Likud gebildet, um ein bürgerliches Gegengewicht zu dem von der Awoda angeführten Maarach-Block zu etablieren. Zuvor war Scharon der Liberalen Partei beigetreten, nachdem er als General nominelles Mitglied der Mapai bzw. der Awoda gewesen war.

Von 1973 bis 1974 und von 1977 bis 2006 war Scharon Abgeordneter der Knesset. In der Likud-Regierung von Menachem Begin amtierte Scharon zunächst als Landwirtschaftsminister (1977–1981), dann als Verteidigungsminister (1981–1983). Als Landwirtschaftsminister wurde er ab 1977 einer der wichtigsten Fürsprecher der Siedlerbewegung.

Während einer israelischen Militärintervention im Süd-Libanon verübten im Rahmen des libanesischen Bürgerkriegs die mit Israel lose verbündeten libanesisch-christlichen Falange-Milizen 1982 in den palästinensischen Flüchtlingslagern Sabra und Schatila ein Massaker an palästinensischen Kämpfern und Zivilisten. Ein israelischer Untersuchungsausschuss, die Kahan-Kommission, gab 460 Opfer als gesichert an und ging aufgrund von Geheimdienstinformationen von etwa 800 zivilen und militärischen Opfern aus, während der Palästinensische Rote Halbmond von 2000 Opfern spricht. An Israels indirekter Beteiligung als seinerzeitige militärische Besatzungsmacht, die nicht einschritt, entzündete sich nationale und vor allem internationale Empörung. Die Kommission warf Scharon zwar nicht Komplizenschaft, aber doch fahrlässiges Unterlassen vor und befand ihn daher 1983 als politisch indirekt mitschuldig, wodurch er als Verteidigungsminister zum Rücktritt gezwungen wurde.

In den folgenden Kabinetten blieb Scharon zunächst Minister ohne Geschäftsbereich (1983–1984), von 1984 bis 1990 Minister für Handel und Industrie und Bauminister (1990–1992). In dieser Zeit entwickelte er weitreichende israelische Siedlungspläne im palästinensischen Westjordanland mit dem umstrittenen Siedlungsring um Ostjerusalem, zu dem auch Ma'ale Adumim gehört.

Nach dem Regierungswechsel 1992, bei dem die Arbeitspartei unter Jitzchak Rabin den Likud ablöste, war Scharon Mitglied der Knesset. Dort gehörte er der außenpolitischen und der Verteidigungskommission an. Als schärfster innenpolitischer Gegner Rabins kritisierte Scharon Rabin wegen des Oslo-Friedensprozesses als Verräter. 1996, im Jahr nach der Ermordung Rabins, errang der Likud unter Benjamin Netanjahu einen neuen Wahlsieg; Scharon wurde Minister für die nationale Infrastruktur und förderte in dieser Funktion massiv den Ausbau der israelischen Siedlungen in den besetzten Palästinensergebieten. 1998 ernannte Netanjahu Scharon zum Außenminister. In diesem Amt fordert Scharon seine Landsleute auf, sich in den besetzten Gebieten "so viele Berggipfel wie möglich zu nehmen".

1999 besiegte die Arbeitspartei unter Ehud Barak den Likud, dessen Vorsitzender Netanjahu in den Strudel einer Finanzaffäre geraten war. Netanjahu trat als Parteichef zurück und Scharon wurde am 27. Mai 1999 zunächst übergangsweise, am 2. September 1999 mit 53 % der abgegebenen Stimmen dann endgültig sein Nachfolger.

Am 28. September 2000 besuchte Scharon in Begleitung von rund 1000 Journalisten, Polizisten, Militärs und Politikern, den sowohl von Muslimen als auch von Juden und Christen als heilig deklarierten Tempelberg in Jerusalem, um zu verdeutlichen, dass der Tempelberg auch den Juden gehört. Er wollte damit auch deutlich machen, dass Israel die Kontrolle über ein vereinigtes Jerusalem an jedem Ort behalten müsse. Bei seinem Besuch, begleitet von zahlreichen bewaffneten Sicherheitskräften, sagte Scharon, er sei mit einer Friedensbotschaft gekommen: "Ich bin überzeugt, dass wir mit den Palästinensern zusammenleben können."

Obwohl der Besuch mit der muslimischen Verwaltung des Tempelbergs abgestimmt war, kam es zu gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzungen; bei Demonstrationen im Anschluss wurde auch mit scharfer Munition auf Demonstranten geschossen und etliche verletzt und getötet. Der Tempelbergbesuch Scharons fällt zeitlich mit dem Beginn der Zweiten Intifada zusammen, welche nach arabischer Lesart durch diesen ausgelöst wurde, sich aber in jedem Fall schon seit längerer Zeit angekündigt hatte. Die Palästinenser bezeichnen die zweite Intifada auch als Al-Aqsa-Intifada, benannt nach der gleichnamigen Moschee auf dem Tempelberg. Es gab auch schon unmittelbar davor Anschläge und Pläne der bewaffneten Palästinenser-Gruppen für den bewaffneten Aufstand.

Premierminister

Scharon gewann am 6. Februar 2001 die Wahl um das Ministerpräsidentenamt und wurde daraufhin am 7. März 2001 Israels Premierminister. Besonders populär war bei den Wählern sein Versprechen, dem Sicherheitsbedürfnis der israelischen Bevölkerung höchste Priorität einzuräumen und den Terror zu beenden. Dieses Versprechen konnte er allerdings während seiner Amtszeit nicht erfüllen. Scharon lehnte Jassir Arafat als Gesprächspartner auf palästinensischer Seite ab, warf ihm Urheberschaft am Terror vor, isolierte Arafat international und stellte ihn in der weitestgehend zerstörten Muqataa unter Hausarrest.

Bei der Wahl 2003 erreichte Scharon mit seiner Likud-Partei einen großen Wahlerfolg. In der zweiten Amtszeit von Scharons Regierung wurde mit der Errichtung einer 720 km langen Sperranlage teilweise inmitten der Palästinensergebiete begonnen, die über eine Distanz von 20 km mit Beton verstärkt und deren internationaler rechtlicher Status äußerst umstritten ist.

Am 23. März 2004 kündigte die Hamas zum wiederholten Male und als Reaktion auf die gezielte Tötung ihres Führers Ahmad Yasins an, Scharon ermorden zu wollen. Nur wenige Tage nach der Tötung Yasins geriet Scharon erneut unter Druck. Abgeordnete der Schinui-Partei, die an der Regierung beteiligt waren, forderten Scharons Rücktritt. Am 28. März hatte die Generalstaatsanwältin Edna Arbel bekanntgegeben, dass sie gegen Scharon und seine Söhne Anklage wegen Korruption erheben wollte. Mitte Juni 2004 entschied der israelische Generalstaatsanwalt Menachem Masus nach monatelangen Ermittlungen, Regierungschef Scharon nicht anzuklagen. Da der Verdacht nicht zu erhärten war und somit eine Verurteilung unwahrscheinlich erschien, wurde das Verfahren eingestellt. Scharon hatte gleichzeitig mit Masus auch einen anderen Konflikt: Dieser hatte Scharon öffentlich getadelt, da Scharon in Bezug auf das Westjordanland und den Gazastreifen von den "besetzten Gebieten" sprach – abweichend vom offiziellen israelischen Sprachgebrauch, der "umstrittene Gebiete" verwendet. Scharon legte trotz des schwebenden Ermittlungsverfahrens keinen gesteigerten Wert auf ein entspanntes Verhältnis zum Chefankläger und bestand weiterhin auf seiner Wortwahl.

Im Dezember 2003 legte Scharon den als "Scharon-Plan" bekannten einseitigen Abzugsplan aus dem Gazastreifen und Teilen des Westjordanlandes vor, wonach alle Siedlungen im Gazastreifen und vier im Westjordanland aufgelöst werden sollten. Trotz internationaler Kritik an der fehlenden Abstimmung mit den Palästinensern sahen viele diesen Plan als Schritt in die richtige Richtung und Abkehr von der bisherigen Siedlungspolitik Israels. Andere sahen darin nur die Einsicht, dass der militärische Aufwand, die Siedlungen in Gaza zu halten, auf Dauer nicht tragbar war. Der Plan kostete Scharon Sympathien bei der Siedlungsbewegung und der politischen Rechten Israels, brachte ihm aber Zustimmung im gemäßigten und linken Spektrum sowie bei internationalen Bündnispartnern. Um den Plan, der seiner früheren Politik widersprach, durchzusetzen, beendete er die Koalition mit Schinui und Schas und ging eine Große Koalition mit der Arbeitspartei ein. Innerparteilich hatte er einen Machtkampf mit den Gegnern des Plans unter Finanzminister Benjamin Netanjahu zu bestehen, der im August 2005 kurz vor Vollzug des Gaza-Abzugs von seinem Amt zurücktrat.

Am 21. November 2005 kündigte Scharon seinen Rücktritt als Premierminister und den Austritt aus dem Likud an. Nachdem der Widerstand im Likud gegen den Abzug gewachsen war, hatte er im selben Monat eine neue Partei mit dem Namen Kadima ("Vorwärts") gegründet, die bei den folgenden Neuwahlen ihre gute Chance nutzte.

Erkrankung, Koma und Tod
Am 18. Dezember 2005 erlitt Scharon einen leichten Schlaganfall. Danach wurde ein offenbar angeborener Herzfehler entdeckt, der am 5. Januar 2006 operiert werden sollte. Am Vorabend der Operation wurden starke Hirnblutungen festgestellt, Scharon musste sich in den nächsten Tagen mehreren neurochirurgischen Operationen unterziehen. Die Regierungsgeschäfte wurden an den stellvertretenden Ministerpräsidenten Ehud Olmert übertragen. Bei Tests am 14. Januar wurden zwar Gehirnaktivitäten in beiden Hirnhälften gemessen, es gab jedoch keine Anzeichen für ein Erwachen aus dem Koma.

Es galt als sicher, dass Scharon sein Amt nicht mehr würde ausüben können. Dies brachte eine schwierige Situation für die israelische Politik mit sich, da insbesondere die in den letzten Jahren verfolgte Politik gegenüber den Palästinensern und die neue Partei Kadima eng mit der Person Scharons verbunden waren. In der israelischen Öffentlichkeit wurde Kritik an der medizinischen Versorgung Scharons laut; man hätte ihm demnach nicht gestatten sollen, ohne ärztliche Begleitung auf seine abgelegene Farm zurückzukehren. Ein Journalist der Zeitung Ha'aretz formulierte: "Israel hat nun zwei Ministerpräsidenten verloren, weil sie nicht ausreichend geschützt wurden: Rabin durch Gewalt und Scharon durch Krankheit."

Am 11. Februar 2006 entschieden sich die Ärzte zu einer weiteren Notoperation, nachdem Untersuchungen Schäden am Verdauungstrakt des Politikers und Probleme bei der Blutversorgung der inneren Organe gezeigt hatten. Erklärungen der behandelnden Ärzte zufolge sei Scharons Zustand nach der Operation "kritisch, aber stabil". Anfang April 2006 erfolgte ein weiterer chirurgischer Eingriff zur Schließung der Schädelöffnungen, die durch die vorherigen Operationen verursacht worden waren. Am 11. April 2006 beschloss das israelische Kabinett, Scharon für dauerhaft amtsunfähig zu erklären. Sein Nachfolger im Ministerpräsidentenamt wurde sein Stellvertreter Ehud Olmert.

Ariel Scharon wurde als Wachkoma-Patient auf die Rehabilitationsstation des Chaim Sheba Medical Center verlegt, einem Krankenhaus in Tel Hashomer, einem Stadtteil von Ramat Gan nahe Tel Aviv. Sein langjähriger Berater Dov Weisglass sagte am 21. April 2008 der Jerusalem Post, Scharons Zustand habe sich wenig verändert. Scharon atme ohne die Hilfe medizinischer Geräte und könne nach dem Urteil der Ärzte wahrscheinlich noch lange in diesem Zustand bleiben. Im November 2010 wurde Scharon versuchsweise für einige Tage auf seine Farm im Süden Israels verlegt.

Im Oktober 2010 wurde Scharons Zustand durch eine Installation des israelischen Künstlers Noam Braslavsky in der Kishon-Galerie in Tel-Aviv, die eine lebensechte Wachsfigur Scharons in einem Krankenbett zeigt, erneut in die Öffentlichkeit gerückt. Da die Installation an ein Beatmungsgerät angeschlossen ist, hebt und senkt sich der Brustkorb, wodurch die Szene noch realitätsgetreuer wirkt.

Im Januar 2011 sagte sein persönlicher Arzt, Scharon reagiere auf Kneifen und öffne die Augen, wenn man ihn anspreche. Am 2. Januar 2014 wurde bekannt, dass mehrere innere Organe versagt hätten und Scharon in Lebensgefahr schwebe. Ariel Scharon verstarb schließlich im Alter von 85 Jahren am 11. Januar 2014 an multiplem Organversagen in jenem Krankenhaus bei Ramat Gan, in dem er seit 2006 behandelt wurde.

Scharon wurde in einem Staatsbegräbnis im Beisein von hochrangigen ausländischen Politikern wie US-Vizepräsident Joe Biden, dem ehemaligen britischen Premier Tony Blair, dem Ex-Ministerpräsidenten der Niederlande Wim Kok, dem russischen Außenminister Sergei Lawrow, Tschechiens Ministerpräsident Jiří Rusnok und Deutschlands Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier beigesetzt. Er wurde am 13. Januar 2014 neben seiner zweiten Frau Lily auf der Familienfarm Havat Shikmim begraben, die im Norden der Wüste Negev nahe Sderot liegt.

Politische Bedeutung
Scharon war Parteivorsitzender des Likud und Gründer von dessen Abspaltung Kadima. Vor seiner Zeit als Regierungschef hatte er verschiedene Ministerposten inne. So war Scharon Landwirtschaftsminister, zweimal Verteidigungsminister sowie Außenminister. Nach seinem Schlaganfall Ende 2005 musste er im April 2006 als Ministerpräsident für amtsunfähig erklärt werden.

Der ehemalige General wirkte aufgrund seiner Biografie und seiner Politik stark polarisierend. Viele Israelis betrachten ihn als Helden, der ihr Land seit dem Unabhängigkeitskrieg stets in bedeutenden Positionen mitgeprägt hat. Weite Teile der arabischen und der internationalen Öffentlichkeit sehen in ihm jedoch vor allem den Mitverantwortlichen für das Massaker von Sabra und Schatila und den militärischen Hardliner. Andererseits setzte er 2005 die Aufgabe der israelischen Siedlungen im Gazastreifen durch. Viele Anhänger der israelischen Rechten, speziell der Siedlerbewegung, die lange Zeit ihren Vorkämpfer in ihm sahen, wurden infolge dieser Politik zu seinen Gegnern. Aus ihrer Sicht hat er sich als Ministerpräsident gegenüber den Palästinensern als zu kompromissbereit gezeigt.

Anlässlich seines Todes im Januar 2014 würdigten viele hochrangige Politiker Scharons Verdienste. US-Präsident Barack Obama bezeichnete ihn als jemanden, der dem Staat Israel sein Leben gewidmet habe. Auch Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel würdigte ihn als Patrioten mit großen Verdiensten um sein Land.

Werke
 Ariel Scharon, David Chanoff: Warrior. An Autobiography. Simon & Schuster, New York 2001, ISBN 0-7432-2566-X.

Literatur
 David Landau: Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon. Vintage, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-4000-7698-7.
 Gadi Blum, Nir Hefez: Ariel Scharon. Die Biografie. Verlag Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-50002-1.
 Norman H. Finkelstein: Ariel Sharon. Lerner Pub Group 2005, ISBN 0-8225-9523-0 (Biographie).
 Baruch Kimmerling: Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against The Palestinians. Verso 2003, ISBN 1-84467-532-7 (dt. Politizid. Ariel Sharons Krieg gegen das palästinensische Volk. Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen und München 2003, ISBN 3-7205-2375-6).
 Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Handbook. International Business Publications, USA 2003, ISBN 0-7397-6341-5.

Film
 Ariel Scharons letzter Kampf.  Dokumentarfilm, Frankreich, 2007, 93 Min., Regie: Michaël Prazan, Produktion: Arte, Erstausstrahlung: 21. Mai 2008 (Inhaltsangabe von arte).

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Einzelnachweise

Premierminister (Israel)
Außenminister (Israel)
Einwandererminister (Israel)
Gesundheitsminister (Israel)
Innenminister (Israel)
Kommunikationsminister (Israel)
Landwirtschaftsminister (Israel)
Religionsminister (Israel)
Verkehrsminister (Israel)
Verteidigungsminister (Israel)
Wohlfahrtsminister (Israel)
Wohnungsbauminister (Israel)
Parteivorsitzender (Israel)
Knesset-Abgeordneter
Kadima-Mitglied
Likud-Mitglied
Generalmajor (Israel)
Fallschirmjäger (Israel)
Person (Hagana)
Person im Nahostkonflikt
Person im Palästinakrieg
Person im Sechstagekrieg
Person im Jom-Kippur-Krieg
Ehrendoktor der Bar-Ilan-Universität, Ramat Gan
Israeli
Geboren 1928
Gestorben 2014
Mann
Absolvent der Universität Tel Aviv

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The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (COMP) is a private, non-profit medical school for osteopathic medicine located in downtown Pomona, in the U.S. state of California.  The college opened in 1977 as the only osteopathic medical school west of the Rocky Mountains. COMP was the founding program of Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU), which now has 8 colleges in addition to COMP, each offering professional degrees in various fields of healthcare.  COMP has a single 4-year program, conferring the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree. Graduates are eligible to practice medicine in all 50 states and more than 85 countries.

In 2011, the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific opened a branch campus in Lebanon, Oregon called COMP-Northwest.  COMP is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation.

History

The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific first opened in 1977, and was the first osteopathic medical school to open in California after the merger between the California osteopathic medical board and the M.D. board in 1961, the California College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons became an M.D. granting school (now the UC Irvine School of Medicine). In 1974, the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California voted to move forward on planning the development of a new osteopathic medical school in California. After acquiring a facility in Pomona and recruiting Philip Pumerantz from Chicago to serve as president, the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific was founded in 1977. The first classes began in 1978, and the inaugural class of students graduated in 1982. That same year, in 1982, the American Osteopathic Association granted COMP full accreditation. At the time, COMP was the only osteopathic medical school west of the Rocky Mountains, and until 1997, when Touro University California opened in Vallejo, it was the only one in California.

In 1977, the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific opened its first outpatient clinic, and in 1988, the school opened the Mission Osteopathic Medical Center in downtown Pomona. In 1990, the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges granted COMP candidacy status, and full accreditation was awarded in 1996. In August 1996, the college was restructured to form a university, which was named "Western University of Health Sciences," and COMP became one of the colleges in this university.

In 2010, the Pomona Patient Care Center and the Health Education Center opened as a part of a $100 million expansion project at Western University. The Health Education Center is a 180,000 square-foot teaching and research facility, and serves as the primary building on campus for COMP.

Since 1982, a total of 4,245 physicians have graduated from COMP and 64 percent of alumni live and practice in California. 44 percent of the 2010 graduating class entered a residency in California. During the 2012-13 application cycle, COMP received 4,339 applications for 220 openings. The class of 2017 had an average Medical College Admission Test score of 28, and an average overall GPA of 3.56.

Graduates of COMP receive a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree and are referred to as osteopathic physicians.  Osteopathic physicians, like M.D. physicians, are complete physicians and are licensed to prescribe medication and perform surgery. Osteopathic physicians and M.D. physicians are very similar, but D.O. physicians receive additional training in the musculoskeletal system, and learn osteopathic manipulative medicine. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine describes the training of osteopathic physicians as "virtually indistinguishable" from that of M.D. physicians. D.O. physicians may choose to enter either a D.O. or an M.D. residency.

Research
The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific publishes research on several subjects in the basic and clinical sciences. Research topics include the following: tuberculosis, Alzheimer's disease, skin cancer, Angelman Syndrome, endangered species, and anatomy. Research is funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the FRAXA Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institutes of Health.

In a 2010 report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, COMP was recognized as a top medical school in terms of its social mission, ranking higher than any other California medical school and higher than any other osteopathic medical school.  COMP was also 12th in the number of primary care physicians it produced.  In 2007, COMP was recognized by the Hispanic Business Journal as the 18th best medical school for Hispanics in the United States.  In 2014, the U.S. News & World Report ranked COMP (WesternU) as 17th amongst all US medical schools for producing primary care residents.

Academics
The first and second years of medical school at COMP focus on the basic sciences, and a systems-based approach to basic clinical sciences. Much of the curriculum at COMP is case-based, rather than lecture-based, especially during the second year. The Summer Medical Sciences Preparatory Program is an optional course for students interested in an introduction to gross anatomy, biochemistry, and osteopathic manipulative medicine.  The Intensive Summer Anatomy Course is an optional course for students interested in anatomy.

The curriculum at COMP includes Interprofessional Education (IPE), a program that involves 9 colleges at WesternU.  The IPE program aims to demonstrate an understanding of other health professions and to provide and promote a team approach to patient care and health care management, leading to improved patient care. While a debate exists on the effectiveness of interprofessional education in encouraging collaborative practice, IPE is becoming a more common component of medical school curriculum in the United States, and many groups, including the World Health Organization, view it as a means of reducing medical errors and improving the health care system.

The third and fourth years of training are clinically oriented, where students rotate through various specialties of medicine; the core rotations are internal medicine, family practice, surgery, OB/GYN, pediatrics, psychiatry, and osteopathic manipulative medicine, and they provide opportunities for students to develop clinical skills.  The majority of third year core rotation sites are located in Southern California, including:

 Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
 Chino Valley Medical Center
 Community Memorial Hospital
 Downey Regional Medical Center
 Garfield Medical Center
 Kaiser Permanente, Fontana, California
 Pacific Hospital of Long Beach
 Patton State Hospital
 Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
 Riverside County Regional Medical Center
 WesternU Patient Care Centers
WesternU has two Patient Care Centers (PCC) that offer medical care, podiatric, dentistry, pharmacy, and optometric services; one is located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and the other is in Pomona, on the main campus.  The Pomona Patient Care Center opened in May 2010, and serves more than 10,000 patients per year. Students from the different colleges at WesternU learn and develop clinical skills at the Patient Care Centers.  COMP students may rotate at the Patient Care Center for family medicine, internal medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and osteopathic manipulative medicine.  During their fourth year, students complete sub-internships at hospitals with residency programs.

Students at COMP may choose to complete a master's degree in addition to their Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.  Three master's of science programs are offered through other colleges at Western University: a Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences, a Master of Science in Health Sciences, and a Master of Science in Medical Sciences.

The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific is affiliated with OPTI-West, an Osteopathic Post-Graduate Training Institute. Through OPTI-West the college works with hospitals to establish and maintain postdoctoral training programs. COMP is affiliated with various residency programs at hospitals such as Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Riverside Regional Medical Center, San Diego Sports/Medicine and Family Health Center, and St. Mary's-Corwin Medical Center.

College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest

In 2011, a satellite campus of COMP opened in Lebanon, Oregon; it is known as the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest (COMP-Northwest).  The new 54,000 square-foot building is used to educate medical students during their first two years of training. During the third and fourth year of training, the students rotate in hospitals and clinics.  Currently, only the medical program is offered at the Lebanon campus, although the university plans to eventually open additional colleges.

The inaugural class is composed of 107 students, selected from about 2,000 applicants. COMP-Northwest is the first new medical school to open in Oregon in over 100 years; currently, 5% of physicians practicing in Oregon are osteopathic physicians, a number that is expected to increase with the establishment of COMP-Northwest. John Kitzhaber, MD the former governor of Oregon and an emergency physician, delivered the keynote speech at the Convocation Ceremony for COMP-Northwest.

During the 76th Oregon Legislative Assembly, the Oregon State Senate passed a resolution to "congratulate the College of Osteopathic
Medicine of the Pacific Northwest, thank the founders for their commitment to the people of Oregon and wish the college success in the future.

Student life
In 1985, COMP students formed a theater group called Sanus, which is the Latin word for "sanity." The theater troupe remains active, and students from other colleges at Western University also participate.
The college also hosts an active chapter of Sigma Sigma Phi, a national Osteopathic Medicine Honors Fraternity that emphasizes community service and scholastic achievement. Along with students in other programs at WesternU, students at COMP participate in a number of clubs on campus.

Notable alumni
 Susan Melvin, D.O. class of 1984, is a professor of medicine (UCI and WesternU), family medicine residency director and Chief Medical Officer at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. In 2008, Dr. Melvin received the California Academy of Family Physicians' Barbara Harris Award for excellence in education.
Stan Flemming, D.O. class of 1985, a retired United States Army Reserve general.
William W. Henning, D.O. class of 1986, is the Chief Medical Officer for Inland Empire Health Plan and President of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California.
 Cynthia Stotts, D.O. class of 1988, became, in 2004, the first female and the first osteopathic physician in the 158-year history of Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center to be elected Chief of Medical Staff; also the first physician ever elected to a second term at that hospital.
 James Lally, D.O. class of 1991, is the President, Chief Medical Officer, and director of medical education at Chino Valley Medical Center.  Dr. Lally was the president of the American Osteopathic Foundation in 2010, is the chairman of the International Shooting Sport Federation Medical Committee, and has served as the team physician for the United States Olympic Shooting Team since 1993.
 Lee Burnett, D.O. class of 1997, a U.S. Army Colonel, is also the founder of the Student Doctor Network, a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1999 for prehealth and health professional students.
Aaron B. Hicks, D.O. class of 2013, a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, served as the Flight Surgeon for the U.S. Navy Blue Angels during their 2019 and 2020 show seasons, and he saw the team through the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic as it emerged in the United States in January, 2020.

See also
 List of medical schools in the United States
 Western University College of Podiatric Medicine
 Western University College of Veterinary Medicine

References

External links
  official College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific—COMP website
 WesternU Health
 Osteopathic Post-Graduate Training Institute

Education in Pomona, California
Osteopathic medical schools in the United States
Medical schools in California
Universities and colleges in Los Angeles County, California
Educational institutions established in 1977
1977 establishments in California
Buildings and structures in Pomona, California
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Home » Healthy Living » The Positive Side » Spring/Summer 2010 » Art Posi+ive: Latino Positivo
Art Posi+ive: Latino Positivo
In his film Nuestras Caras, Nuestras Historias, artist and activist Samuel López puts a human face on his community — HIV-positive Latino immigrants in Canada.
Interview by Astrid Van Den Broek
SAMUEL LÓPEZ learned early in life about how tragedy can ravage a community. The son of a Baptist minister, López grew up in 1970s El Salvador, a country on the verge of a civil war that would last from 1980 to 1992. His father's church, Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Salvador, had a clandestine involvement in Comadres, a human rights group formed by the wives, mothers and sisters of men who "disappeared" while struggling against the right-wing regime. As part of its work with Comadres, the church helped found an orphanage where some 100 children found refuge.
López and his parents were very much involved in the orphanage. "I still vividly remember one time as a teenager when we went to the mountains to rescue six siblings whose mother was dead and whose father had gone to war. It wasn't easy — we had trouble with the directions — but eventually we found them," he recalls. "We arrived during a battle and were nearly killed while saving them and bringing them back to the orphanage. It was terrifying. We were all living this experience of a civil war, and so community devastation is something that's quite easy for me to understand."
Experiencing social injustice and violent repression in his homeland planted deep activist roots in López. Now, more than two decades later in a world away from the bloody conflicts that back then were tearing apart several countries of South America, the 41-year-old Toronto resident continues to stand up for people's rights, passionately advocating for change. But today, instead of starting an orphanage, López does his part with a film lens, most recently by directing the 17-minute documentary film Nuestras Caras, Nuestras Historias (Our Faces, Our Stories). Initially created for screening at the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, the film has continued to attract attention at film festivals in and around Toronto.
Simple in execution yet packing a punch, the film tells the stories of six people with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) who immigrated to Canada from Latin America. They speak of the stigma they often felt in their home countries because of their HIV status and how within the Canadian health-care system and in the broader community HIV is more "normal." Though there are growing and vibrant South American communities in many Canadian cities, the HIV-phobia and homophobia that can exist in Latino communities make it hard for Latino PHAs to feel welcome. (Several of the PHAs in the film are also gay, compounding their sense of isolation.)
As an HIV-positive gay Latino man who arrived in Canada in 1984, López can relate to many of the experiences shared in the film. His own immigration story represents two waves of Latino immigrants who have come to Canada — the political exiles of the late 1970s and the more recent newcomers who left Latin America because of their sexual orientation.
Calling attention to the lack of services available to HIV-positive Latinos in Toronto and across the country is one goal López has for his film. There is a need for HIV-positive Latino peer counselors, he says. However, he points out that immigrant Latino PHAs often do not have the skills or experience to provide that support. And no wonder — the stigma and discrimination Latino PHAs face in their home countries often forces them to live in isolation and fear and can rob them of a chance to develop those skills. It is the same hostility and repression that drives them to emigrate.
Seeing the opportunity to make a difference, López and others have created Latinos Positivos Ontario, an advocacy group for Latino PHAs in the province. One goal of the group is to support and train Latino PHAs to be peer mentors.
Nuestras Caras, Nuestras Historias is not López's first foray into storytelling through film. In 1992, he produced Samuel & Samantha on the Emancipation of All, a documentary about the start of the gay Hispanic community in 1990s Toronto, narrated by López and his drag alter-ego Samantha. "I don't have a formal education in filmmaking," he says, "and I learn a lot from these projects."
His next work, a documentary that spun off from Nuestras Caras, Nuestras Historias, continues to examine themes of displacement and community. "It's called El Cañaveral (The Sugar Cane Field) and it tells the tale of one man's arrival in Canada during the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006 and the dramatic story of his struggle to gain refugee status here," says López, who is currently in search of funding to complete the project. "All those years ago in El Salvador my consciousness was born. And today when I see injustice, I'm still unable to handle it. I have to get involved."
Astrid Van Den Broek is a Toronto-based freelance writer who's written for a number of magazines including Chatelaine, Best Health, Canadian Living and More.
Photograph: Jorge Manzano
Support for HIV-positive Spanish speakers
Latinos Positivos Ontario is an advocacy organization specifically for (and run by) HIV-positive Spanish speakers. They are working to partner with The Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples (416.925.2800) to develop programs for Hispanic PHAs in and around Toronto. Latinos Positivos Ontario can be reached through Toronto PWA Foundation (416.506.1400).
Montreal has its own Latino Positivo group, which is associated with AIDS Community Care Montreal (apoyo@accmontreal.org or 514.527.0928).


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Poprzez przejście podziemne jest ważnym centrum przesiadkowym ze stacjami Napoli Centrale, Piazza Garibaldi (linia 2) i Napoli Garibaldi (Circumvesuviana).

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Within the Northern regions, including Leeds, Liverpool, Gateshead and Nottingham, our key initiatives have been instrumental in raising awareness about the need for continual professional training for DAD artists through performances and professional workshops. Our networking and partnerships with regional agencies (Yorkshire Dance, Phoenix Dance, and MDI) and organisations (Movema, RJC Dance, Gateway Studio Project, ACE Dance and Music and New Art Exchange), offer training and support for emerging and established artists and practitioners working within the sector.


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Rediff.com » News » PHOTOS: Violence rocks Washington as Trump takes over; over 200 arrested
PHOTOS: Violence rocks Washington as Trump takes over; over 200 arrested
Source: PTI
Last updated on: January 21, 2017 16:03 IST
Six police officers were injured and more than 200 protesters were arrested as brick-throwing vandals torched a vehicle and damaged half-dozen stores after a series of protests marring Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony gave way to violent street clashes in the United States.
Image: A limousine set on fire by protestors while demonstrating against US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the inaugural parade. Photograph: Twitter
At least two police officers and another person in downtown Washington were taken to hospital after run-ins with protesters, Fire spokesman Vito Maggiolo told CNN.
Acting DC Police Chief Peter Newsham said the officers' injuries were considered minor and not life threatening. About 217 protesters were arrested.
A large number of protesters had gathered in the national capital since early morning on Friday to voice their anger and hold demonstrations against what they alleged were the divisive policies of the new Trump administration.
Image: Activists race after being hit by a stun grenade while protesting. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters
A group of protesters clad as 'antifascist' smashed storefronts and bus stops, and broke windows of a limousine just blocks away from the inaugural parade route. Some also threw rocks at police manning the streets near the US Capitol.
Image: An activist is helped after being hit by pepper spray on the sidelines of the inauguration. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters
Police had to use crowd-dispersing sprays and flash-bang devices to push back the protesters and large crowds. "Pepper spray and other control devices were used to control the criminal actors and protect persons and property," they said.
Anti-Trump protests also broke out in cities across the US, including New York, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago and Portland, Oregon. Authorities in Seattle said one person was in critical condition at a hospital with a gunshot wound.
Image: Protesters demonstrating against US President Donald Trump take cover as they are hit by pepper spray by police. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters
Newsham told the American television network that the several hundred demonstrators who confronted police were outnumbered by the thousands of nonviolent protesters who had descended on the nation's capital for Inauguration Day and Saturday's Women's March.
"We have been pointing out all along that this is a very isolated incident, and by and large, everything is going peacefully and a lot of folks have come to the city to enjoy this historic day, not only the Capitol but walking all around the city," he said.
Image: Lilly Price of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, (left), and Sara Owre of Washington, DC, (right), react as US President Donald Trump finishes his inaugural address. Photograph: James Lawler Duggan/Reuters
The report said nine people were arrested in New York for disorderly conduct while five people were arrested at a protest in Dallas, six in Chicago.
In Seattle, people threw bricks and other items at officers during a demonstration at University of Washington campus, city police said.
Image: A police officer tries to tackle a protester demonstrating against President Trump. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters
The protests are not expected to end with the inauguration as nearly a quarter million participants are expected for the Women's March in the nation's capital, considered the largest protest ever following an American President's inauguration.
"We're really trying to set a tone of resistance for the coming years," Lacy MacAuley, a DisruptJ20 organiser, told CNN.
Image: Protesters link arms to block an entry point prior to the inauguration. Photograph: Bryan Woolston/Reuters
"Donald Trump represents a shift in our politics in a dangerous, harmful, exclusionary direction. We oppose those policies of hate."
The march, which began with a modest Facebook call in the aftermath of the election, has grown in to what could be one of the larger political demonstrations ever in DC.
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As salespeople we are all excited about what we do, that's why we do it. We are passionate about our products, services or solutions and will talk to anyone anytime about it if they show the least bit of interest. That's what makes us great at what we do, but I also feel like maybe we're giving the cookies away for free. It's in our nature to "sell, sell, sell" anytime we can, but I've found that's not always the best approach. You know you've got a great product, so don't give it away the first time you talk to everyone. Make sure you have a truly qualified lead, before dedicating more valuable time.
There's a system of selling called the SPIN method that, if you're not familiar with, you should take a look at. The method can be broken down into a few basic parts. SPIN stands for: Situation, Problem, Implication, Need/Payoff. This is how to qualify your leads: ask questions! Find out what their current situation is. Do they use a competitor? Do they have events or marketing goals they need to scale up to meet?
Then ask questions to identify the problems they are having. Is it lack of communication between sales and marketing? Are they filling their pipeline and losing customers in the mix? The implication is as simple as "What would your team do with…?" or "If I can solve that for you would you…?".
These steps are all you should be doing to find a qualified lead. Once you get to that point you'll know; if it's a good fit and what pain points they have that you can solve. Hopefully, a bit of additional qualifying info such as: do they have a budget, are you talking to someone with the authority to make this purchase, and what is their time-frame for the need (classic "BANT" criteria).
From there you can decide if it's worth YOUR time to spend more time with them, or nurture them and move on. Hopefully that 15 minute call got them excited to move to the next step: filling their need. Go ahead and set up that next meeting! Now you're spending more time with qualified, interested leads and not giving the cookies away for free to every person you talk to.
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In order to both market effectively to your customers and enable your sales team to be able convert potential customers, you need to start understanding your leads, both on an individual scale and your lead database as a whole. After all, even the most skilled sales team can put up less than stellar conversion numbers if they are handed too many leads, or are not given the appropriate information to sell to promising leads. Lead Liaison incorporates a wide variety of features to help your marketing team gather information about your leads, and integrates this with features to communicate that information with the sales team.
In order to learn whether your leads are ready to buy or receptive to your companies' services, you need a way for your marketing team to gather information about them. Lead Liaison features many tools to help accomplish that. One of the most important ways to do this is with automatic lead scoring, which will score activities such as web form submissions, page views, video activity, document downloads and many other statistics, all of which can customized. In addition, Lead Liaison will connect to a lead's social media profiles, pulling any pertinent data and adding it to their profile, helping you understand as much as possible about your leads.
All of this information is compiled into Lead Liaison's hot lead dashboard, entitled Briefcase. This tool is designed to help your sales team interpret the data that your marketing team has gathered about leads, and will help your sales force be able to quickly access how warm any given lead is. These levels are based on a wide range of qualification factors, such as overall activity, buy signals and lead grade so the software can comb the entire database to eliminate duplicates, ensuring your sales reps never irritates a potential customer with over access.
Leads are not only potential customers when your marketing or sales team first comes in contact with them, and many of your potential leads may not be ready for the service you provide at the moment they enter your radar. In order to maximize these cold leads, and convert them into customers when the time is right, Lead Liaison has automated nurturing tools to open a conversation and keep your company present in a potential customer's mind for when they do require your services. Our automated tools will continue to track a customer who may not be a warm lead yet, and will inform you if their pattern of behavior indicates that they could potentially become a candidate for conversion.
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What does it mean to focus your marketing at the "top of the funnel?" The sales funnel is essentially a model that depicts the purchasing process of prospects. The top of the funnel, the widest part, is where your brand makes itself known to the potential customer; this is prospect awareness and education. As the funnel narrows, so does your prospect pool. Here, your marketing and sales efforts become much more direct and personalized and you can focus on quality lead nurturing. The bottom of the funnel is when the purchase is made—leads turn into paying customers. When you maintain strong marketing at the top of the funnel, the bottom of the funnel should never be empty.
Marketing at the top of the funnel can include several different types of practices; a couple of the most successful include social media marketing and content marketing (namely, via blogging). Take a look at all of your current marketing channels: email marketing, blog posts, search ads, social media posts, how-to videos, etc. Which are the ones that educate prospects and invite them to explore your website? In order to answer that question, you need to have a solid understanding of who your prospects are and what they'd like to know. The best way to figure that out is to monitor your marketing analytics so you can keep an eye on the numbers that matter in terms of your company's goals. Taking a look at these numbers will show you which articles are most popular, what your social media followers like to read, and which landing page designs are most effective in terms of leading the prospect to the information they are looking for.
Start with content marketing (blog/social media).
Insert links that take the visitor to your landing pages.
Provide something of value on the landing pages (for example, whitepaper downloads).
Continue to nurture the lead with personalized information that helps them to make their purchasing decision.
When implementing marketing at the top of the funnel, communication between marketing and sales is key. This allows the sales process to continually evolve and increase effectiveness with each cycle. An effective marketing plan leads to a more effective sales process. Involving marketing at the top of the funnel means implementing productive marketing strategies at the early stages of a prospect's interactions. Here, you can weed out the ones who are not likely to turn in to paying customers, saving your sales team time on those wasted efforts.
One of the most challenging tasks business owners face is workflow automation. Without someone sitting in the middle of everything and pulling all the necessary levers to get things done, many businesses struggle with engaging in a variety of tasks – including marketing automation and lead flow.
Workflow automation doesn't have to be painful, and it doesn't require hiring a full time project manager for your business. The right marketing automation system can give you a workflow out of the box without a lot of hassle or time training.
The key to using software to get your workflow automated is to establish dependencies. This means that once an action happens on the business side, tasks, follow up and lead flow are created automatically.
Before marketing automation, business owners and project managers had to determine and set up these lead flow channels themselves. Workflow changes all that. The right marketing automation system allows your company to create these dependencies, schedule them for you and keep everything in one place so you know what isn't getting done and can delegate accordingly.
For instance, say your dashboard registers a new lead. This lead comes in the form of an opt-in, containing an address and business information. You can set up a dependency on your backend to add this new lead to a certain geo-targeted or relevant content list. You can set tasks in your project management system for your sales team to call this lead within a few days after you get it.
You can also collect emails and send correspondence each time a new user visits your site. That's something that a human project manager simply can't do for you – no one should be tasked with watching IP addresses and a ticker all day to try to get leads deeper into your funnel. That's why automation is so important – it takes the hassle out of marketing and gives you the option to create dependencies that allow business management tasks ease of flow.
Lead Liaison's dependencies and workflow automation are set up within a program called Sparks. Lead Liaison's automated software will monitor your back end and lead flow, and then create a series of events in the system once certain triggers happen. From a filled out lead form to a visitor coming to your site, different Sparks can be set up to create events in the backend of your business you can use to make your daily operations more productive. We'd love to show you how Sparks works – connect with us today for a consult!
method of lead tracking waste valuable time, but it also opens up the opportunity for human error. You send several follow-up emails each day to your leads. Then, for each one, you still have to input all of the relevant details into the CRM. Whew! Not following the full routine of lead tracking is detrimental to your future relationship with the lead. Take control of your lead tracking and spend more time closing leads instead of repopulating data into your CRM.
Tracking leads (and keeping documentation of it) is increasingly important in building your relationship with them. How can you follow up with a relevant, personal message if you don't remember where you left off? Every rep does it differently, some prefer handwritten sticky notes, some input it directly into the CRM. Either way, making that information readily available for your next interaction allows you to pick up where you left off. It also allows you to transfer the lead to another rep, if need be. Lead tracking done through marketing automation allows you to filter out the leads that just aren't interested, or may be interested next year, or are only interested in this one specific product, etc. Take control of your lead tracking—keep up with them to help you figure out what they want and when they're ready for it.
Lead tracking through marketing automation should provide a record of their response times. When did they respond to your last email? Was it in the morning, or at lunch? Chances are, their response times are indicative of when they're available, and therefore the perfect time for you to reach out to them next time. Leads are quickly lost if you become an inconvenience for them. Manage your leads and maintain control of your lead tracking by working with their schedule.
Lead Liaison's Send & Track plug-in works seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook and lets you take control of your lead tracking. Using this marketing automation tool keeps your leads out of that scary black hole of lost emails and wasted communication. The Send & Track plug-in adds a button to your Outlook that automatically inputs the correct data into your CRM and tracks all of the future activity with that lead. Not sure if the lead opened the last email you sent them? Send & Track will tell you that too. Plus, it automatically syncs data to your CRM for leads that have already been entered into the system.
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The apartment has a fully equipped kitchen. Guests can enjoy views of Den Blå Planet aquarium from the hotel's weekend café. Other facilities include a private garden and lounge, which opens onto a terrace overlooking Kastrup Beach Park.
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: Just an FYI - most (maybe all?) rooms are on the second floor, and you have to take stairs. It could be challenging if you have a lot of bags.
: Perfect stay ! Close to the Airport and Metro Station !
: Absolutely wonderful breakfast room and extremely kind and welcoming service.
: Friendly staff, nice rooms, great for airport access, above average breakfast (could include boiled eggs).
: We had the room at the top of the stairs so were woken up by people coming home late at night.


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Year after Supreme Court win, New Jersey sports bets thrive
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The anniversary of New Jersey's victory in a U.S. Supreme Court case clearing the way for legal sports betting across the nation was a happy one for the state's casinos and racetracks, which reported taking in more than $300 million worth of sports bets for the sixth month in a row.
Figures released Tuesday by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement shows the casinos and tracks took nearly $314 million worth of sports bets in April. So far, since sports betting began in New Jersey in June, nearly $2.64 billion has been wagered in the state on sports.
"Sports betting without question has provided a major boost to the local economy, and we believe this excitement will translate into increased revenue and tourism throughout the summer," said Kevin Ortzman, regional president for Caesars Entertainment, which owns three casinos and two sportsbooks in Atlantic City.
FanDuel, which operates the sportsbook at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, just outside New York City, said it had another great month.
"April was our second biggest revenue month since launch, thanks in part to enthusiasm for the NBA and NHL playoffs, as well as the start of baseball season," it said in a statement.
The extra money from sports wagers, along with another stellar month for internet gambling, helped the state post an overall increase in gambling revenue of nearly 24 percent compared with a year ago, at over $265 million.
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On May 14, 2018, the high court ruled in favor of New Jersey's decadelong court battle to overturn a federal law that limited legal sports betting to only four of the 50 states.
Eight states currently offer it, and several more have recently approved it and are preparing to begin taking bets. And dozens of additional states are considering getting in on the fast-growing industry.
The nine Atlantic City casinos showed an overall increase of nearly 17 percent, to nearly $251 million.
Internet gambling was up nearly 59 percent to $36.5 million.
The casinos are looking forward to the upcoming summer season, their busiest and most profitable time of year, said James Plousis, chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.
"Gaming and leisure customers have many options, both online and on site, and Atlantic City is positioned for a great summer season with its addition of new sportsbook lounges and other exciting amenities," he said.
The Golden Nugget saw its revenue increase in April by 3.7 percent compared with a year ago, to $29.3 million.
The Borgata, which launched a new sports betting platform Tuesday, increased its revenue by 2 percent, to $58.8 million.
Resorts saw its revenue decline by 24.2 percent in April, to $13 million; Caesars was down 24 percent to $22 million; Tropicana was down 9.7 percent to $27.7 million; Harrah's was down 6.3 percent to $27.2 million; and Bally's was down 4.7 percent to $14.5 million.
For the two casinos that had not yet reopened as of last April, Hard Rock saw $25 million in revenue, and the Ocean Casino Resort saw $16.3 million.
Two New Jersey racetracks offer sports betting. The Meadowlands reported $12.1 million in revenue from sports betting after paying off winning bets in April. That was about six times the level of Monmouth Park in Oceanport, near the Jersey shore, which saw $2.5 million in sports betting revenue.
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