R.I.P Ariel Sharon

In an editorial in the New York Sun about Ariel Sharon, I quote the Sun:

Everyone knows about Sharon’s successes on the battlefield and of his deeds when he held high political office. Where his strength really shone, though, was when he was in the political wilderness. He had been effectively driven from power after the massacre of Palestinian Arab refugees at Sabra, part of Beirut, and the neighboring refugee camp known as Shatila. It was a terrible crime, with estimates as high as two or three thousand dead. Sharon, Israel’s defense minister at the time, was innocent, and the perpetrators ended up in the embrace of the Assad regime in Damascus.

He was considered the greatest field commander in Israel's history, and one of the country's greatest ever military strategists. Israel wouldn't exist without Sharon.