# Sharon rushed to hospital

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharon-rushed-to-hospital/338478>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 4, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharon-rushed-to-hospital/338478 "2006-01-04T23:20:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharon-rushed-to-hospital/338478/1 "2006-01-04T23:20:32Z")

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Just turned on BBC World News. Israeli PM Arial Sharon is ‘fighting for his life’ after a stroke.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharon-rushed-to-hospital/338478/2 "2006-01-04T23:22:51Z")

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BBC-WN: ‘PM had “massive internal bleeding”.’

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharon-rushed-to-hospital/338478/3 "2006-01-04T23:24:22Z")

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The reports certainly don’t sound very hopeful.

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**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharon-rushed-to-hospital/338478/4 "2006-01-05T00:35:47Z")

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This isn’t good. He may not survive.

How did Binyamin Netanyahu DO that?!?

Just kidding, totally crass. Sorry. But to have a hawk make such a turnaround and then not be able to see his plans through is going to hurt the peace process, no doubt about it. And there are no doubts as to where Netanyahu’s sympathies lie.

My thoughts are with the Sharon family.

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**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharon-rushed-to-hospital/338478/5 "2006-01-05T00:36:52Z")

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And another thing- which doctor pronounced him in good health after that mini-stroke two weeks ago? Yikes.

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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharon-rushed-to-hospital/338478/6 "2006-01-05T00:54:31Z")

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If the worst happens, what’s the succession? Does the Deputy PM (Olmert?) become PM until there’s an election?

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharon-rushed-to-hospital/338478/7 "2006-01-05T12:30:53Z")

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[Serious but stable.](http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/05/sharon/index.html)

(Now I’m waiting for the retraction…“Oops, we said he was resting comfortably, but in fact he died on the operating table; we just heard wrong.”)